Quinoa dinner

Here's the finished product of the Jessica Seinfeld dish.  The only difference, if I didn't mention it in the last post about this, is that I add carrots, and extra clove of garlic, a 1/2 tsp. extra of salt, and I use Canola oil.  It's wonderful.  It works as a side dish as well as the main course.  Tonight I'm teaming it up with baked sweet potato and a lush lovely leaf lettuce salad.  How's that for alliteration?  We've been eating not all together healthily lately so I'm attempting ammends with our bodies. 

Later this evening we've got some Kirby guy coming out to do an hour and a half presentation - and free carpet shampoo - at our home.  Sigh.  On the upside, I really have been meaning to call to get our carpets shampooed, so at least one of the rooms will be done.  For FREE!

We're going to the state fair sometime this week too.  That'll be fun.  We went last year to see Weird Al Yankovic - excellent.  I enjoy seeing the knitted and quilted things.  When we were kids, my sibs and I would get so excited for Machinery Hill.  We'd climb up into the big huge tractors and feel like we were on top of the world.  I did anyway. 

On Saturday afternoon we brought a bunch of things down to A's new place.  Then we took her out for her birthday.  I love their apartment - even the white walls.  I put everything in its place, even though a lot of it was in bags.  It looked so cozy at night with the lamp next to the chair and Curt's old end table.  They don't have much furniture so the rattan chair with the very cushy thick cushion was nice to get. 

Speaking of homes, tomorrow will be our tenth anniversary of moving into this house.  I wish we wouldn't have taken down the rails on the stairway.  Sigh.  But now we have a fireplace, that's a nice addition.  And lights in the ceiling in the north (read: dark) facing living room.  And non-pink carpet...lol  And we updated the basement bigtime.  Our Oak tree Oakie is five this month, at least his anniversary with us is the 5th.  I adore that tree.  It looks like a glass of lemon lime Kool-Aid. 

Getting tired.  Better go rest before I move everything out of the living room for Mr. Shampoo.  Bye