It rained today

It's 6 o'clock and dinner is in the oven. B is in the living room looking at the Philly news and I'm at the bar in the kitchen facing the kitchen so I can see the stove. While we had a rather gloomy and rainy day, apparently we didn't have nearly the rain South Jersey had - Elmer had 9 inches and Glassboro (where we went to college) had 7 and Philly had over 4. We didn't reach that at all. When we had rain it was a misty drizzle.

I did nothing this morning...well, it's Sunday and that's what Sunday is about! We did go to breakfast. I had a toasted corn muffin and ate the entire thing with 2 cups of coffee. YUM!  We got home and I just puttered around and really can't say what I did. I was on the computer and looked at the ads in the Sunday paper and ....well, I don't know. We at lunch around noon - hot dogs on the grill. Let me talk about that grill... it's a Charm Glow that we got at Home Depot several years ago -maybe three. I use it often - keep it covered with a heavy duty cover and feel I take good care of it. And the grates are kinda shot so when B started talking about a replacement I was all for it. The Webber grills sounded good! We had looked at them last week when we went to Ace Hardware. Went on Amazon and some other web sites and Amazon looked good with no tax and no shipping charge....and we ordered it. YEA. As I cooked the hot dogs I thought - gosh these things are taking forever to get done...and the temperature on the lid (not that it's accurate) said 320 so.. anyway the new grill should get here this week.

So for whatever reason, this afternoon I felt inspired. First I worked downstairs on the lower level. I have books on line to sell for our local library and I reviewed what I had and removed about 12 that were not going to sell since they had been on line for over 2 years. I also straightened things up and made it look neater. I then went up to the loft and did a quick sort of the "stuff" on my desk and filed, shredded or did something with everything. YEA..

And then I went to the kitchen. I've been trying to get back into canning. The other day I did blueberry jam - and it was good. Rather sweet but good. So I canned 7 jars in 3 batches. Today I first baked a cake. Now it was a mix so all I did was mix it up and pop it into the oven. And I still have to make icing. I then started the next canning project Vidalia Onion Thyme Relish which turned out OK. I canned three half pints and have a bit to taste. It's oniony with a sweet tart taste.

I also just finished icing the cake.Icing is REALLY good!  For diner we had roasted chicken using the convection oven...love convection.

And the day was good...and I'm tired. Busy afternoon and it's still kinda soggy out. So we will have some cake and relax..happy Sunday!