I don't dine with flies

I don't dine with flies. The sooner the flies learn this, the happier we will all be.  

Story number one

I don't dine with flies.  For eight weeks, I had fresh fruit and vegetables on my kitchen counter, in my frig, dried up on plates left in the sink, everywhere for eight weeks. I only saw maybe one or two fruit flies.

Now that all the fruits and veggies are gone, there appears to be an army of fruit flies determined to take over my kitchen, bathrooms, laundry room, every room. I don't dine with flies! My homemade vinegar traps and a friend's aimless swings of a fly swatter at the ceiling, along with shouting and crying are fighting a hard battle and slowly winning the war. One million fruit flies have dwindled to about 20 give or take a few. I don't dine with flies! So go ahead, taste the vinegar; take a nice long swim!

Story number two

I don't dine with flies! While I enjoyed a ham sandwich, goldfish crackers, and kosher dill pickle on a camping trip, several overgrown, striped, blood sucking flies dined on me! Their bites stung and caused me to shout curse words, stomp, scowl, and retreat to the safety of the hot truck cab where I barely missed bumping into a momma raccoon that was climbing onto our picnic table to steal our bread. I don't dine with flies or raccoons! 

Until next time..

XOXOXOXO  

Zuppa Toscana Morehead Style*

Zuppa Toscana Morehead Style

2 Turkey sausage link styles
8 slices Turkey bacon
1 jalapeno pepper, sliced
2 tbls olive oil
4 medium potatoes, cut into cubes
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
4 cups of water
1 bunch of kale, removed from stems and torn into pieces
1 cup of heavy cream
salt and pepper to taste

In a dutch oven, place potatoes, garlic, and onions. Cover with water. Let boil until potatoes are tender but not falling apart. While boiling, saute sausage and jalapeno pepper slices in 1 tbls of olive oil until brown. Move to a bowl. In same skillet, fry bacon until crisp in 1 tbls of olive oil. Crumble bacon into pieces. Add sausage, peppers, and bacon to dutch oven. Let simmer 10 minutes. Add cream and kale, heat through. Add salt and pepper to taste.  Enjoy!

Until next time...

XOXOXOX

Staycation Oasis

Wes and I have had a very busy and fun summer so far. Let's see if I can give a quick run down.

1. Gulf Shores, AL-Lots of love to the Gillenwater's for the invite.
2. Ship Island
3. Kosciusko
4. New Pirates movie-a little disappointing
5. Reba McIntyre concert-AWESOME!
6. Canoeing
7. Wedding in Slidell, LA-Yay! for the Little's
8. A lot of laying by the pool-see pictures below
9. Started C25K-I am going to DIE make it for sure
10. Bridesmaids- some very funny parts
11. More Ship Island
12. Flounder gigging and lots of fishing
13. Swimming with the Pitts kids-I heart these little guys
14. And everything in-between

It only gets crazier more insane amazing from here. June is going to be a busy month, but I am loving every minute of it. We even have a primitive tent camping trip planned for Wes' birthday. I will not survive. :/

Here are some pictures of our backyard... our staycation oasis.

Until next time...

XOXOXOXO