Lasagna

You know when you get a craving for something and it gets worse the more you ignore it. Luis had a craving for lasagna. We went to Bob Evans and had eggs 'cause they didn't have Lasagna. We went to Perkins, Dennys. Cheddars, O'Charleys. all no lasagna. we had some great meals. This was all over about a month period. I even bought hamburger helper Lasagna It wasn't lasagna. Barb Gullone promised me a couple of years ago some lasagna. but she is a busy woman. Somewhere in the past I remembered my nephew Jason ordering Lasagna in Heyworth at the family restaurant. So I called and the woman said "Let me check" when she returned she said Yes we do. whoooo hooooo happy dance happy dance.

I called mom and asked her if she would like to join us since it was in her side of the country. She said yes and when we got the farm she had invited my sister Liz and family to join us. cool cool lasagna party. Liz showed up just and we were heading out the door so the world was good.

We got to the restaurant and after looking at the menu discovered no lasagna. good gravy I thought. when the waitress came over I asked and she said she would check. She came back and said "no" no??? huh? what?? I told her I had called. She said well the cook was a mexican and she wasn't sure he understood what she said. I turned to Luis and said how do you say Lasagna in Mexican. He said the same way you say it in English. Lasagna is italian not mexican. I asked if she would ask her manager. About the time I was ready to throw nicely folded napkins in her direction. She returned and said yes they had lasagna.

Lasagna for everyone. happy dance on the table. no no I just smiled and said please bring us some. The portions were huge and the lasagna was wonderful. Why would they keep this meal a secret. You think they would at least tell their waitress. And this was real lasagna. no something he threw in a pan. The cook had to of prepared it in advance.

the bread was less than wonderful but who could complain when they just had their craving satisfied.

Spending time with Liz's children is always wonderful. Caleb is 6 and has a mind that doesn't miss anything. The other day he said Hey Dean, have you see this cat comercial. I told him I wasn't sure. He said it was the one where the cat litter was so great that the cat could not find the litter box. Caleb thought that this special litter must be some kind of cat torture. can you imagine the cat running around the house, having to use the litter box and not being able to find it. poor kitty

Kim Carpenter, a young teacher who teaches across the hall from me. got married this Saturday. beautiful wedding, beautiful reception, uneventful.

Josh and Joel are in ireland for 14 days. They started out the trip with the grandmother Bridget's family (both of the boys maternal grandparents immigrated from ireland in 1950)
Bridget's family do not drink. I'm sure Joel will feel this is a cruel trick. To be in ireland and not be drinking. Josh has irish citizenship. if your grandparents immigrated you can file. Joel doesn't plan on leaving illinois so he didn't file. Josh plans to quit his job in Chicago in September and move to ireland to work on a dairy farm.

Friday they covered all of the seed corn with plastic. They are going to exterminate all the mice. Poor things. I told the boss that they should call the piped piper. I thought it was cheaper. He said hmmmmm I don't think so the piped piper took away all of the children from the town. ok second thought gas them.

I got the floor finished in the half bath off of Pippen's room. Then installed the new toilet (well a used toilet from the hotel) I flushed and it worked great. I still need to install the sink. I went to get my cleaning supplies to give it a good once over and when I flushed it the water wouldn't go down. upon further investigation I found one of Pippen's toys in the pipe. Ah Pippen just looked at me. I'm sure he thought it was a new type of toy cleaner. Pippen is hearing impaired and so he works very had at reading me facial expression. When I was sitting on the floor of this small bathroom trying to figure out what was wrong I must have looked terrible because Pippen started crying. He laid down on the floor with his paws over his nose and made a terrible cry. This dog is unique

Last year my sister Alyce came to town from Canada. She stayed with me and work on the sister quilt that the girls are all working on. I would lock Pippen up in his room while I was at work. Alyce was working away on a piece of quilt when she heard someone call her name. Allllllyce. She said yes, who is there? She went outside to see if someone was at the door she looked out the window to see if someone was there. finding no one she returned to her quilt square. A few minutes later Aaaallllyce Alllyce. Then some scratching noises. Alyce checked the bedrooms and the bath. finding nothing she returned to the kitchen and this time she heard her name she located that it was coming from the utility room. When opened the door she found a very happy Pippen. She dicided if Pippen could cry her name he deserved to have run of the house.