Friday, June 8, 2007

the Ladies & Dinner


I got to go to Hot Springs with 5 of my Extension Homemaker ladies - Tuesday-Thursday. We attended the Arkansas Extension Homemakers Council annual state meeting and stayed at the Embassy Suites (sweet!). I took advantage of their Spa Botanica.....and the massage was wonderful - wish I could have another one right about now! LaVerne, Shirley, Joyce, Pete, and Mary Ellen kept me hopping, entertained, up too late, and up way too early!!! But they were lots of fun too and even helped me plan a romantic dinner with Scott (if adding candles makes it romantic....). Pete insisted on the candles, mentioned it several times, so I had to use candles. And since I was using candles, I thought that I might as well use the china too. So after discussing what veggies to fix for dinner (Scott had mentioned that he needed more veggies), and after I dropped them off, I headed to Kroger. I even impressed myself with how well the black eyed peas turned out (must have been the bacon they said I just had to use). We had black eyed peas, corn on the cob (fresh - I even shucked them), cooked baby carrots, broccoli cole slaw (Mary Ellen recommended cole slaw, but I wanted something with more color), and fresh-homemade-from-scratch-in-Grandmother's-iron-skillet-cornbread. I wish I had taken a picture!

After dinner, Scott got out the old cappucino maker (probably 15 years old - hasn't been used in years!) and fired it up. He called Jason & Penny McGlawn, friends of his, and they came over. We all had cappucino and ice cream (Yarnell's Anniversary Cake - yummy!) and had a nice time visiting.

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