Random acts of kindness…

and the countdown till Spring is passing slowly.  Today marks 60 days until Spring.  It is 18 degrees and the wind chill is 4 degrees.  The wind is gusting to 30 miles per hour.  In a couple of hours I am going to bundle up and go out and clean the snow off my car for the umpteenth time this winter. 

I have the Peoria Journal Star delivered daily.  Each day they have a feature called Random acts of kindness.  I will confess that these articles often have me sniffling a  bit as do some of the ads on TV.  During the Christmas season when local TV was showing greetings from our military personnel overseas I sniffled a lot.  http://www.pjstar.com/lifestyle/random-acts-of-kindness

Anyway I have been in the house since Thursday and I am beginning to need to get out and go somewhere,

I don’t know yet what I am cooking today.  I have so many leftovers crammed in the freezer along with the TV dinners I bought to stock up before the last snow storm.  I need to eat some of the leftovers. 

I have never really learned to cook for one person, another thing that I need to put on my bucket list.  My bucket list is so long…  I remember that movie came out shortly after I lost my husband.  I purchased the DVD and my neighbors next door came over to watch the movie with me.  I never did watch it all of the way through.

Have a Blessed Sunday!!  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Spring is missing…

The calendar says spring but Mother Nature is not cooperating.  The high yesterday was in the low 20s which was 54 degrees cooler than it was last year at this time.  Right this very moment in  time it is only 13 degrees.  I heard a bad man say the S word for Saturday when I was listening to the weather report this morning.

Tuesday and Wednesday were pretty tough days.  I don’t bounce back like I used too.  And I don’t like it one bit.  But I am here to complain about it and for that I am ever thankful. 

I am leaving in a few minutes to get grocery shopping done early.  I want to get started on spring cleaning but I will be darned if I am going to do that when the weather is like mid winter.

I smiled reading a story on the front page of the Peoria Journal Star this morning.  http://www.pjstar.com/

Dunlap teacher charged with two felonies for bathroom camera

Posted 14 hour(s) ago

“A Dunlap High School teacher’s attempt to secretly record colleagues in a school bathroom this week also captured him positioning the cell phone underneath the sink.”    Quote from the Peoria Journal Star.

Now why in the world do you think he did that?  Check the article out if you are interested.  Needless to say, he has been terminated.

Time to get moving.  I will be around to visit you all this morning.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Taste of Fame…

Have you ever tried a pork tenderloin sandwich??  It is my favorite sandwich and I thought it was available everywhere.  Maybe if you have a Culvers in your area you can get it.  According to an article in todays Peoria Journal Star these sandwiches are not available everywhere. 

Luciano: Schooners pork tenderloin gets its moment in the spotlight

 “Finally, it’s time for the pork tenderloin to go national.

The sandwich — oversized and deep-fried, slid under a way-too-tiny bun — is a staple in central Illinois, making Peoria undoubtedly the pork tenderloin capital of the world. Elsewhere, though, it’s pretty much unknown — an injustice that Jeff Mauro wants to correct.

“That’s my hope,” said the star of “Sandwich King” on the Food Network. “I want everybody else to know about this.”  Quote from the Peoria Journal Star 2 March 2013.

Mauro was in Peoria yesterday afternoon at Schooner’s with his film crew to film a portion of his TV show which airs on the Food Network.  I never watch this show but I will try to catch this episode.  The Sandwich King airs on Sunday at 10:30 AM CST on the Food Network.

Now, in case you didn’t know, a huge pork tenderloin is breaded and deep fried and served on a 4 inch bun.  I am very particular what I want on my tenderloin sandwich.  Catsup, mustard and pickles on one side of the bun and mayo and tomato slice on the other side.  Pure nirvana.

“Nirvana is a place of perfect peace and happiness, like heaven. In Hinduism and Buddhism, nirvana is the highest state that someone can attain, a state of enlightenment, meaning a person's individual desires and suffering go away.”

And now I want a tenderloin sandwich.

Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Back home…

Paxton sledding hill deemed too big

Thursday, February 21, 2013

A young child is pulled on a sled near Montrose Harbor in Chicago. (WLS Photo)

 

 

February 21, 2013 ( PAXTON, Ill.) -- A small town in eastern Illinois is losing its sledding hill because the city says it's just too big of a liability.

Kay McCabe is a member of the Park District board in Paxton. She tells The (Champaign) News-Gazette that the district's insurance company warned that costs would sharply rise if anyone had an accident on the hill in Coady Park.

Paxton is about 30 miles north of Champaign and sits in one of the flattest areas in Illinois. Places to ride a sled downhill in that part of the state are almost all manmade.

Park District Director Neal McKenry says he believes people will miss the hill but he hopes they get over the disappointment.

Workers have already started removing trees and other vegetation from the hill.

(Copyright ©2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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This article was in the Peoria Journal Star yesterday.  I sat right up and took notice because Paxton is the little town where my children were born.  Jim and I owned our own home there (with a garage ) until I sold it in 2010 and moved here to be close to my daughter.

I remember when the land was donated to the Paxton Park District by Ms Coady, thus the name of the park.  I remember at the time that a good portion of the citizens of Paxton did not like the idea at all because of the raise on our taxes.  And now it is coming down.  And that is as the world turns.

I hope you are all having a peaceful weekend.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

Sunday morning…

and the sun is shining brightly down on this one particular city in the heart of Illinois.  Yep, this city is right smack dab in the very center of Illinois.  Now in my lifetime I have lived in Western IL, Central IL and Eastern Illinois.  Forgot to mention that I was born in Southeastern Missouri. 

It is 27 degrees and here it is 9 AM and I haven’t received the Peoria Journal Star.  I am not too happy about that as the paper is part of my Sunday morning routine.  It has been over an hour since I called the paper and reminded them of that fact.

I did cook yesterday  as I said I would and my tummy protested later as it is used to TV dinners and I fed it a pork chop, mac’n’cheese, green lima beans and even some pineapple cobbler for dessert.  Today I will put most of the leftovers in the freezer.

Today is my niece’s birthday.  Happy birthday Sue!!

Nothing new to report here, except I am very glad to be alive on such a beautiful sunshiny day.  I hope the sun is shining for you all no matter what part of the world you are living in.  Stay safe and be happy!!

Beth

P. S.  the countdown to Spring stands at 15 days!