Saturday, June 15, 2013

a date night!


Well we had an absolutely fabulous day!  I of course was up around seven or so and hubs slept in till nine (I woke him).  We started the laundry and got to mowing the yard.  I did the easy part (read riding mower) while he did the hard part (yep, push mower).  Sasha got to hang outside on the lead while we worked and Aaron ran out of gas so she went w him to get more.  I finished b/4 he got back and worked on the dishes.  While he was mowing behind the garage he noticed something interesting and pointed it out: WE’VE GOT TOMATOES!!!!!!  Ages ago I wanted to start a compost bucket and life’s happened so we don’t have one; instead we collect ‘compost’ material in a plastic container and toss it in a pile behind the garage.  Some where along the way nature took over and gave us two plants, that’s right not just one, but TWO!!!  Even more awesome, the large one is flowering!  I’m sure that the tomatoes won’t be all that tasty if we get some, but it’s still really neat that it happened on it’s own. 

 

Okay, back to life – after mowing and dishes and showering and ‘pedi’ we headed to the store.  I looked online and discovered that Kroger had peaches for $1.48 and grapes for $1.28 so we swung by there first.  Next stop was Aldi’s.  I won’t bother listing everything we got, but I love this place more every time we do a large shop there.  I stocked up on produce: onions, zucchini, squash, tomatoes, mini bell peppers, cucumber, avocado,  mushrooms, snow peas, carrots, green grapes, strawberries, blackberries, and blueberries, as well as milk and frozen fruit, AANNDDDD a fold out chair w a canopy for less than $90!!!!!  I get so silly excited to find such awesome deals. 

 

Next we popped into Wal Mart, where Aaron played with the door alarm (something in one of my reusuable bags set it off and he was bound and determined to figure it out) while I picked out bananas and grabbed a plain yogurt to make some more tomorrow (hopefully).  I was torn and angry all at the same time; they got a butt load of peaches in and had to mark them down for quick sale: $.79 a lb!!!!  I tried to rack my brain and decide if I wanted oodles at that awesome price.  However I left them there :’(. 

 

We were done by 1, dropped off and put away the cold stuff and headed to our Dishcrawl date.  LOVED IT!!!!  Kocktails and Koture (the crab cake image was our sample) was pricey, tasty, and ‘fru-fru’ as hubs calls it.  Music City Flats was the best – a beef shoulder in a red wine demi-glace w garlic roasted mashed red potatoes and kale and onion sauté.  Oh I finagled extra drink tickets so I sampled both tastes from K&K and three from MCF.  I loved the spicy pink drink from K&K and the green apple sample at MCF.  Then we stopped at the food truck; it was a fried tater ball w a sweet and spicy sauce – IMO tasty and HOT!!!!! (temp not taste).  The next stop was another food truck; a lemon crepe – IMO not that big a deal, a nice lemon flavor but kinda soggy.  Afterwards I headed to Colt’s and got two dark bolts; LOVE these and so glad they let me get the dark chocolate ones.  Hubs went to get the car and then we drove over to Mirkko; what a let down!!!!!  I had one drink ticket left so I got the chard, which was the wrong co’s.  I’m not a big chard fan anyways and hadn’t tried the one advertised; however the one they gave I have had and was room temperature (read bleh).  Also the pasta was dried and cakey cold. 

 

With the first few being a big hit and the price being decent, can not wait for another one!!!!

 

Since the pasta wasn’t that great and I had shared most of my meat, potato ball, crepe, and pasta w the hubs I had plenty o’ room to go to dinner w the family.  We went to the Habachi place in Madison and I joined foursquare on hubs cricket. 

 

My high of course was a great day with my wonderful husband!

 

Are you on foursquare?  What is that all about and how does it work???

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