Paperwork & New Recipe

Today was the day to clean out a lot of outdated and useless paperwork.  We keep records back 5 years for tax purposes and keep our tax filing papers forever.  It is amazing how much paper accumulates in a year and we carry 2 years of data with us when we are on the road.  Not a very exciting or interesting job and we put it off as long as we can.  Neither of us likes this task, but it has to be done.

Gerry fixed a new meal this evening and doesn't know what to call it.  She mixed chicken, carrots, rice, celery, onions, garlic powder, pepper and a can of cream of chicken soup.  She made it into a casserole and it turned out great.  Now she has to come up with a name for the recipe and can't decide on what to call it.  Any suggestions?

She has other recipes that she calls gobbly gook, batwings, and other tasty names.  Batwings are strips of steak, onions and teriyaki pan seared.  When we were in Abidjan a friend of Larry Jr's  wanted to spend the night and asked if he could do so.  A quick call to his mother confirmed it was ok and he was good to go.  When it came time for dinner he asked what we were having.  Batwings!  You should have seen the look on his face.  They had huge fruit bats in Abidjan and he thought we were having them.  Gerry led him on for a few minutes until he started to turn green.  Then she told him what they really were.  I bet he never forgot that meal.

It was a beautiful day up here on the mountain with a slight breeze and cool temperatures.  We didn't have the a/c on all day and were comfortable.  This is how we remember the cabin from years past before we had an a/c.   It is about to change with more rain in the forecast for the next few days.

There was an article on the internet about a Pennsylvania man killing three people and escaping with his 4 year old daughter.  I see so much of this lately and didn't bother to read it.  Then on the news tonight I saw where all this happened in Quincy, PA which is about 10 miles from us.  It's a very small town and only has a few stores and houses.  What a shock to hear that it happened there and not in some big city.  It happened very near where I rented the gas powered polesaw a couple weeks ago.  

I read a number of blogs and notice that most of them are about shut down for the summer.  They are mostly blogs by snowbirds and fulltime rvers.  The ones still on the road are interesting, but like my blog the others don't really have that much exciting to write.  I hope that will change when we get back on the road in about 7 weeks.  

As everyone knows the Olympics are going on in London and are being shown on NBC.  I used to look forward to the Olympics but they haven't been for amateur athletics for so long that I have lost interest.  There is so much politics and money involved now that it destroys the sport.  I just read where India is spending $15 billion dollars to get ready for the Olympics there in 2016.  I wonder what the ticket prices will be then?

I haven't included a picture lately so this one of a beautiful butterfly will have to do for a while.