Jude, is this a special occasion? Your dinner sure sounds like it. Here is the apple recipe I used: Fried Apples 8 medium Granny Smith apples, chopped (I used 4 Gala) 1/4 c. butter 1/2 c. brown sugar 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/8 tsp. nutmeg Melt butter in a heavy skillet over medium-low heat. Add apples and remaining ingredients. Saute 15 to 20 minutes or until apples or tender. Serves 6. (If you use 8 apples.) Shirley, it was a good day for vegetable soup. I have the heat back on but Harry's still cold. Mary, your sure keep busy! I love macaroni salad, but I don't like mine all that much. Wish I could have a bowlful of my mother's again. Marilyn, you cook the best meals for being as busy as you are! We ended up with turkey with leftover dressing from last night. (I was on the phone with my sister too long to do the potatoes.) Glenda, sounds delicious--I know you don't care for them, but I'd have to have fries with it. Haven't tried one with grilled onions--next time, whenever that may be. Stacey, happy anniversary! Hope you have many more. Enjoy tomorrow with family, too. Georgysmom, I just love Steel Magnolias and watch it every time I see it's on TV. Sounds like a nice way to spend a Saturday afternoon. We usually only order from the appetizer list when we eat out. Otherwise we overeat and bring enough home for two more meals.

Glenda, sorry you didn't get your MRI over with--and even sorrier that you had to have one in the first place. At least your lunch sounds good! Caroline, Harry used to go to convention every year for a weekend and up to our cabin that we were remodeling. Most weekends I'd go with him to the cabin, but 'ya know, it's nice to have a weekend alone once in a while. Enjoy! Mary, I'd share your shells--I'm not a fan of eggplant, either. Think our rain is about over but over the past week we got about 4". Still need more though. Shirley, you must have the cooking "bug". I need to catch it!! It was a good race, but no gray horses. Poor Harry :-) Monica, I wish I'd had a Philly cheesesteak while the kids lived in PA and took us to Philadelphia a couple of times. Everyone raves about them. Georgysmom, if we have lunch out, we're never hungry and usually don't eat at all. But if we eat at home, I guess we don't eat enough at lunch to last :-) Glad you didn't miss the race. It was a good one! 14 of the horses were either bought here in Ocala or were broken and trained here. Rhizo--question for you. When you cook the sausages just to eat (as opposed to putting them in a sauce or something), so you leave the casing on? I usually just put them in something, so I take the casing off and "scramble it. Jasdip, garlic is a pretty plant. As fast as I go through it, I should plant some myself. It's nice your DH tells you what he'd like for dinner. Harry won't say even when I ask him!!

Holy cow! I was out in the garage and heard something outside. A lot of garage doors around here (including ours) has a screen across it and works on tracks similar to a sliding glass door. I went over to look out and out of nowhere came an armadillo who casually walked across our driveway and laid down under the downspout next to the garage. Then, here comes another one. Geez, Grand Central Station for the aramdillos around here today. Anybody have a recipe--haha! Mary, gear up--we're all coming for dessert (and maybe some mac and cheese if you have any leftover). That cake sounds delicious. Shirley, your mac and cheese sounds good, too. I'm not too crazy about stuffed peppers but I do like stuffed cabbage. That's a good idea! Jasdip, you really scored on the pork loin. Even $1.88 would be a bargain around here. You can get a lot of meals out of one when there are only two people. Linda, funny you mentioned that Georgia salad with the salmon. I was talking to my sister on the phone this afternoon and she was telling me about a restaurant they went to for lunch one day last week and described that very same salad all the way down to the bacon dressing. They live in Indiana, so I guess they'd have to call it Indiana salad :-) It sounds delicious!

Gosh, everyone's dinner sounds so good! I swear that I'm going to get a slow cooker; I must be one of the few that don't. I'm looking forward to those cool autumn evenings. I sort of miss our little outdoor chiminea....it was enjoyable to sit around a fire and chat over drinks. Jasdip, my eyes are FABULOUS! My vision gets sharper and brighter every day. I asked Robert this evening if he noticed that the TV reception had improved and he just laughed at me. I simply cannot believe that I have this vision out of my own eyes. My doctor somehow managed to finess my new lenses so that I feel like I have almost infinite far vision but still can see well enough close up that I've only needed readers for very small print. I can put on my makeup, read most things without my new little readers. I will donate all of my eye glasses next week. Pretty amazing. I had him, his technician, and myself dabbing our eyes last week at a checkup visit after my second surgery. I made him stop what he was going, I took his hand in mine, leaned close to him and told him how much my new vision meant to me, someone who had really been so burdened by terrible vision since I was a little, tiny girl. I wanted him to know that my life was changed.