Showing posts with label Big Maybelle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Maybelle. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Gabbin' 'n Barbecuin'


Oh, the smells radiating from my kitchen..... Ribs again. They sure can make a house smell great. Slow cooking for hours they can keep you wanting them all day. I have dinner at it's best. My son comes home at seven or eight o'clock and on Tuesdays and Fridays, at nine or ten. The salad will be wilted and everything once hot will now be cold. I'm having plenty of asparagus these days. My son doesn't like it at all so it all goes to me. Pity!

I've had lobster for lunch today and yesterday thanks to my Mother's Day feast from Jesse. I was too tired to eat it when I came home on Sunday but it certainly made for excellent lunches. I shelled this morning's while I chatted with a friend on the phone. Delicious and satisfying is all I can say. And yum! Oh, the smells coming from my kitchen....

I'm happily anticipating meeting Svetlana from the blogging world tomorrow. We're meeting at one. I hope I'm not already tired out from a busy town morning with several stops and errands behind me. A dental appointment is right after that so I'll use that time to relax instead of over lunch. I'm delivering flowers to a friend who enjoyed the ones I dropped off for her at her workplace last week. They cheered her all week and if I can do that for her again so simply....

The music today is from Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - Barbecue Any Old Time, It's got Po' Boy, Long Ways From Home in the chorus, kind of a jam sound with bottle percussion instruments and such. Something else from the old file, Gabbin' Blues by Big Maybelle.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Pretty Good Love


I had to fight having a nap this afternoon and am still now. I got quite a bit of reading in and it made me sleepy.

Cured all that. My daughter called and she brightens and enervates any moment. She's always a pleasure. I've got great kids out there and here at home. My youngest son coming home to help me out has been incredible. He has had to shovel, do pots and pans, carry laundry, and help with the cooking. I simply can't take hot things out of the oven safely, so if I am cooking something that has to be taken out of the oven at any time, he must be present. If it's something that can stay in the oven for a while, to cool, I'm usually ok. We're coping very well.

I just got off the phone this time from talking with my brother and my son has finished the dishes. I have to get cooking. Again, what a great family I have. Update: While doing the music, I get to remember that my cat loves me too and loves me blogging at this time. I'm defenseless with one hand.

Without further adieu, today's musical selections.... Thank You by Charlotte Kendricks and That's a Pretty Good Love by Big Maybelle.