The color is gray!

Category: Daily Happenings | Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:23 am

I was just sitting here reading about Toni's pantry. I've been feeling a little blah today. It seems like it's been gray and cloudy and raining forever. When the sun decides to come out, it's just in time to watch it disappear over Glenda's house. I think she gets more sun than us and it's just not fair.
Gray is not a color to instill anything. I've been trying to sew and do things and not just sit around watching the rain and thinking about sunshine. Today, I was sewing a garden apron and it was a dark blue. I wanted to put an orange butterfly on it. I drew the butterfly on the cloth and embroidered (zigzagged) around it. I missed the line in a couple of spots because it's gray in here, even with the lights. So, I think I will not put that pocket on the apron. I think I will choose a print material and put a pocket out of some cheery material on the apron instead of a butterfly. Now that I'm thinking about it, I think starting in the morning when it's going to still be gray and cloudy I'll just sew things out of bright cheery material and leave the plain stuff for sunny days.
It was a soup kind of day and I was looking in the pantry cupboard, trying to decide what kind of soup to make. There was a package of bean soup mix. It said 16 bean soup mix. Not a mix really, just 16 different types of beans. So, I washed them and put them in a pot and added water and boiled them a minute or two, turned off the pot and let them soak an hour or so. dr said I should use the leftover pork barbecued ribs for the flavoring instead of fresh pork or hambone. So, after the soaking, I drained the beans and washed them and put fresh water on them, added the barbecued ribs and brought the pot to a boil, turned it to med/low and let them simmer.
I pulled the mixer to the front of the counter and mixed up a batch of yeast bread dough. We brought it into this room next to the heater to rise. In this big house we try to heat only the areas that are in use. Chance is used to us moving her bed around to rooms where we are so she stays warm too.
Anyway, when the bread went into bread pans I put two potatoes, chunked up and some chopped onion and peppers into the soup pot. I pulled the ribs out and cut the meat off of the bones and put the meat back. After taking the accumulated fat out of the dish the ribs had been stored in, I poured the barbecue sauce into the bean pot. I turned it to low now so it wouldn't be done before the bread. I made the bread into to large loaves and 12 rolls. We made inroads into the 12 rolls for supper with the barbecued pork bean soup. dr says I should make a few extra barbecued ribs each time so we can have barbecued bean soup each time. It was very good and there is enough for another time. Reheated, it might be even better.
I made cranberry orange bread yesterday so in a bit I will go and make a fresh mug of tea and have some of it as a snack before bed. I don't need a snack before bed but it's just sitting there waiting for someone to eat it and it should be me, I think.
dr is going to get Chance up for some exercise. She sleeps too much on these gray days. Then in the middle of the night she gets up to play. We are not very happy to be woken up by a dog playing squeaky in the middle of the night. He took her out on the long front porch to run up and down. She went out the back for her nightly outing and had to be dried out when she came back inside. She doesn't much like to be wet. I don't blame her. That rain is cold!!
I've formed an opinion about why we are getting so much rain. It seems like people other places are getting a lot of snow. So, every time someone mentions the word snow, it rains on us. It doesn't matter where they live, if they mention they are getting snow, it clouds up and rains here. So, if someone is getting snow every day some where then, we end up getting rain here every day. Just look at our forecast. Rain three or four days out of every week. This week only one sunny day and it will probably turn out gray and cloudy. dr says it will take him the entire day to catch up on the laundry because it's been two weeks since we've had a day that he could hang it out to dry.
Okay, the color is gray. I'm glad Toni didn't paint her pantry gray. There was a little color in my life today.

dooley

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kuntrygal wrote on Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:09 am:

You are so funny and write with such eloquence. As I sit here reading your blog, my stomach is growling. Your soup and bread sound so delicious. I too am hoping for some sun and dry weather.Everything is getting green...with moss!

toni wrote on Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:06 am:

This is an El Nino winter, should be this way for a few more weeks. :(

I am ready for some sunshine but am afraid that as soon as we get some it will turn into a hot, droughty summer

Sjoerd wrote on Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:03 am:

Well Dooley, it may be gray there, but your activities are anything but gray. :-)
All that cooking has got me hungry now...and it's exactly 12 noon at this moment here.
I have had the cranberry bread. My bride makes that sometimes and then pours what she calls a "drizzel' over the top of it. It is sweet and tart at the same time as I recall. It looks sort of like that "icing" on danishes,but tastes different.
I enjoyed your posting today.

daisybeans wrote on Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:27 am:

Hey Dooley.... I do like your postings too... We have been gray here for what seems like months, but I think it is really weeks. When it hasn't been gray, it's been white, if you catch my drift (hahaha). I won't say that word right now.... BTW, I l o v e 16 bean soup and yours sound awesome, yum yum yum. I have a ham bone in my freezer but I decided to make beef stew this weekend instead.

Droopy wrote on Fri Feb 05, 2010 3:22 pm:

I'll stop saying the "s"-word, just say that the rain is white. :D Then maybe you'll get some sunshine and no grey days.

glendann wrote on Sat Feb 06, 2010 1:26 am:

I go outside and do a sundance and I stole all the sunshine so Dooley and Brian doesn't get it all.Don't tell them cause I didn't mean to take it all.I'm sooooooo sorry but it sure was nice.:)