Week of January 11th - Saturday 16th + Recipes

Monday: So much news about who should be removed from office (in the Senate and House) who incited violence, 25th Amendment to remove Trump, impeachment proceedings, trying to put the terrorists on a no-fly list from the airlines, motion to make it illegal to put Trump's name on any public building, etc... Our government has a lot of work to do to get rid of traitors, rid of those saying the election was fraud (each individual State certified the votes so why not work at the State level - oh, he did try with over 60+ lawsuits, no major or minor fraud discovered). We cannot have government employees, elected officials represent citizens who have been party to the President's lies, bullying, unspeakable undermining of democracy. It is sickening! 

And to back up a week, to Monday, the 4th, we got the call from Mom about Nana Barbara passing the night before, Sunday the 3rd. Aunt Patti is coping well and handling everything, sent her roses in memory of her mom. Love to our Maine family.

AA is in school all this week, with a half day on Friday to end the grading semester. She had her golf lesson on Monday and her Thursday lesson was changed to Friday afternoon.

Tuesday: I worked my last two days in the JEA NGS office. Got everything done except some confusion about a mowing bid in purchasing, I wrote a couple of emails and spoke to a few people, but not my place to get involved directly with Facilities and Purchasing. Someone else needs to step in and take charge. 

John Reid, Paul Smith and Jay Worley were texting "SJRPP Memories" from 12/30/20 - 01/13/21; this photo we think is from 1998 (Marmaduke Award - Power Magazine?). Larry Bradley, Bud Para, Paul Smith, Jay Worley and Jim Jackson.

01/13/21: SJRPP flag pavilion in front of the Service building (#5). Demolition is almost complete, a few more months to remove below-ground concrete and remaining scrap.

Wednesday: Worked until 4:30 then went to Carolyn's. Cooked brown rice shrimp and avocado bowl (recipe below). Ford cooked burgers for their dinner.
Thursday: Came home from Carolyn's. Worked from home with APTIM D&D team. Made brown rice shrimp and avocado bowl as we liked it the night before.

Shrimp with lemon avocado and brown rice:

Carolyn made these delicious chocolate, oatmeal, peanut butter cookies!

Ideas for CNY activities:

I continue to walk Ginger twice a day when I am home:

Friday: Planned to work with Chuck at the ICT Building, but rescheduled to Monday. Half day of school for AA. She golfed and I did a little practice. 

We ate leftovers for dinner, smoked turkey with BBQ, cole slaw and beans.

Saturday: AA was invited to an escape room with the Bailey's. So glad AA had some fun!

Afterwards, they were explaining how they got a slow start but then halfway through ended up being fun even though they "died", didn't make it off the island, or out of the room.

We joined the River House Happy Hour Zoom at 5:00 p.m. with Hugh, Maureen and Penny (Kathy's son was in town). We spoke mainly about getting vaccine shots (Penny and I do not have shot 1 yet). And for dinner, we made a new recipe of Chicken Cacciatore, very good (from Delish dot com, in the slow cooker, served over linguine). We did leave the lid off for an hour to evaporate some of the liquid and added black olives to Ford and AA's plates:

Still very cold mornings (30's) and windy, cool afternoons, pretty good for winter weather!