Found a great recipe for Tilapia on my friend, Asha‘s, blog. She got the recipe from her cousin. It is incredibly easy to make and she swears that it will melt in your mouth! Just click on the link and get the easy directions from her blog:
On the trip to my local pet store, I noticed a travel trailer parked on the side of the store. So when I entered the store I was not surprised to see an adoption event going on. What did surprise me, though, was that the event was to find new homes for rescued greyhounds.
The greyhounds are magnificent dogs. I was very impressed with how sociable they were. They are beautiful dogs, with a variety of markings and coat colors. I sure wish I had a fenced yard to bring one home. It would not be fair to a large dog to not have a fenced yard for them to run.
I think if I was Hot, that I would be getting pretty tired of Humidity tagging along this summer. It’s as bad as having a little brother tagging along on a date when you were kids. Not that I ever had to deal with that. Just saying.
We have had about 3 weeks of unbearable heat. The temperatures have been close to 100 degrees every day, with high humidity and very little breeze. The “feels like” temperature has been about 105 – 110 degrees. Even late at night, when I am walking my dogs, the temperatures are still in the 70′s and 80′s. This is very unusual for us to have this long a spell of high heat this early in our summer. I have a bad feeling that my electric bill is going to be very high all summer because of the extra air conditioning that we are running. We can’t even open the windows at night for fresh air. It’s just too hot.
The month of May is only half over and we have already set a record for the most rainfall in one month. The floods were horrible and spread out all over middle Tennessee. Many people are still not close to being cleaned up, and here we have two more days of rain this weekend. I am so sick of the mud and the humidity! We need a week of no rain and a little wind to get things dried out and back to normal.
Three days of rain and we are having serious problems with flooding. There are areas of homes completely under water. Other areas have people trapped in their attics and on their roofs with no way to safely escape the rising waters. Flash flooding has made many roads impassable.
My home is on high ground and I’m sure that we are safe here. But I am very worried about many friends and co-workers who live in other areas and may be in danger.
There was a terrible, tragic accident last week on an oil drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The platform was on fire, men died, and BP Oil is on the hook for repairs and lost revenues.
But even worse is that the oil is spewing from the ocean floor and they can’t find a way to stop it. It is an horrendous environmental accident. Millions of gallons of oil wasted and flowing freely across the Gul of Mexico. They expect the oil slick, already the size of the island of Jamaica, to reach landfall this weekend. God help the animals and birds and other wildlife on the Gulf coast. This is much worse than the Valdez accident, many years ago. And so very sad for America.
I loved Greensboro – it is a nice, friendly small town. Dian and her husband have a nice split foyer home and now that their family is growing again, they want to build onto the back of the house to make a new family room and two extra bedrooms with a shared bath.
Dian was telling me about their search for a good contractor to do the remodeling. Finding a good contractor is the secret to getting the work done right and within budget.
Dian asked her neighbors for suggestions on who to ask for estimates on the work they want done. One of her neighbors had used a home improvement contractor that she liked. The contractor, Tim, does all kinds of work -from kitchen remodeling, to adding a garage or deck, to foundation or roof repair. It helps a lot that her neighbors had used his company and were satisfied. Plus, Dian was able to go inside their home and see the quality of work for herself.
The best thing about Yahoo chat is that you never know who else will be online the same time that you are, and they might want to say hello when they see that you logged in. That happened tonight, when my girlfriend, Dian was online late and saw that I was on, too.
Dian and her husband have lived in Greensboro ever since they got married about 11 years ago. I met her a few months after she gave birth to their first baby, a little girl. Dian quit her job as a teacher to stay at home with the baby, and she spent a lot of time online during the day.
Dian was originally from Valdosta, Georgia, and her husband was from Charlotte. He found a good computer job in Greensboro, which was close enough for relatives to visit, but not so close as to be crowded by pushy in-laws. We’ve visited each other once or twice a year ever since we first met, even though Nashville is more than a half day’s drive away. I wish we lived closer, but since we can chat any time of day or night, that helps keep our friendship alive.
The weather has finally broken from the nasty bitter and wet cold winter. We are looking forward a full week of mild weather and much warmer temperatures – in the upper 50′s and low 60′s during the day. Woot!
It just worries me that March is coming in like a lamb and might end up going out like a lion. On the other hand, I’m glad the groundhog was right and Spring is coming early this year!