Belly's over-filled

October 18, 2006 (5:09pm)
41º F, Rain, NW wind 4 mph.

Good evening,

I got chased off of the roof thanx to the rain. Really don’t want to do much on a roof that is wet and slippery. I did manage to get things closed up that were open. Ain’t pretty, but should last until tomorrow when the rain should be over. We sure are getting more than our share of rain and cool weather. The temperatures have been much below normal for some time now and it appears it will be for a time to come. The predictions are for a warmer than normal winter, but really am wondering if that will be the case. Supposed to be sunny for the next few days, but cold just the same.

Got our electric bill yesterday and found that we have used a lot less than a year ago, the weather has been cooler, but the total cost was higher! Our power company is in the process of asking for a price increase, about 13% for electricity and around 6% for natural gas. I see that my rocking chair money will go up about 3+% this coming year. Nearly 25% less of an increase then last year! Not sure what the cost of living increase is, but bet it is closer to what the power company is asking than what the increase will be.

Margriet is building liver and onions with bacon for supper tonight. Sure am looking forward to it. We have not had that for a very long time. The last time we were at Otto’s Meats, he had it for sale at $1.00/pound. I couldn’t pass it up. If they have that again, we certainly will get some. Both of us like it muchly. While going through some of her cookbooks from the Netherlands, she ran across some recipes for tongue! I haven’t had that for probably a decade. We will look/ask for it the next time we stop at Otto’s. The "normal" stores don’t carry it any longer. Remember my Mom making it quite often and all of us liked it very much. Especially as sandwich meat.

6:18 pm

So I am totally filled with some excellent liver. Margriet out did herself making it. Huge pile of liver, onions, and bacon. Turned out the package was about twice of what we really needed to have for supper - but there ain’t any left! I enjoyed the liver more than finishing the fried potatoes. It was soooooooooooooooooooooo good. Hope to do that again and often. The liver was sliced thinner than we normally do for some reason and really thinner than Margriet is used to. But she sure done good with it. Next time we will cut the package in half before putting in the freezer.

Margriet and some of the gals from church are going to Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota for a "Women of Faith Conference" on Friday and Saturday. She has gone every year for the past three years and really enjoys the trip. Of course being all gals, the car should be nice and quiet on the way there and back. Sure glad I am not the driver! From the sound of it, the first stop will be the Mall of America to do some "window shopping" - they say. It is a good time for the gals and they do get a lot out of the experience. If nothing else - the fellowship. Or is that girl-ship?

The website for the webcam from Enschede has for some reason gone bad. We have not been able to access it for a few weeks now. Complaining about it, Margriet decided to see if she could find another. She did http://cms3.enschede.nl/toerisme/De_stad/muziekkwartier/ This one is of a construction site for a music/theater type building in the city. It is rather interesting to look at, especially if you want to see how buildings are constructed. They do things differently there than here.

It turned out there also was a "button" to click to view the same webcam from the other location. Clicking it, the webcam cam up! It really surprised me. Thought there was some construction going on in that square too, so the webcam had been disconnected. Guess not. Not too sure what happened, but now we have to points to look at in Enschede. Cool! The new webcam has a much better quality picture than the "old" one too.

Time to get a-going.

In Christ My Saviour,

Chris <><