Four Recent Wins

A Friday Hodgepodge

Editor's Note I'll be away from the blog and scarce on Twitter over the Memorial Day weekend. Expect me back here next Wednesday.

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Whenever possible, I list three wins at the end of each day. Here are a few from a recent review of my planner.

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1. When we moved from Florida to the New Orleans area, the kids no longer went to the same school. On top of the separate schools, their starting times were earlier and about an hour apart.

Next year, they'll still be at separate schools, but will have similar starting times. I will enjoy having more uninterrupted time on weekday mornings.

I may be even more excited about the end of the school year than my son.

2. I have known for some time that our parish (Louisiana's equivalent to a county) has a network of biking/walking paths that include paved-over former rail beds.

I finally got around to doing some of my daily walks on one of them nearby, and am quite impressed. Our neighborhood is great for regular walks, but this is a nice change of pace.

Since the network extends into several nearby towns, it might even lend itself to integration with errands or other things we do on weekends.

3. Visiting my mother recently in Mississippi, we went to one of our family's favorite catfish restaurants. I love the fried green tomatoes and fried okra there, and I have yet to find a similar place in Louisiana.

(Oddly enough, I also haven't found a place that sells green tomatoes here, and have had to substitute egg plant on catfish night at home.)

The next time we visit, I plan to stop in Magee on the way. A local restaurant there is supposed to make the best hamburgers in the state.

4. I have finally solved what I have called the Dueling Spaghetti Recipes Problem. For some time, I've been alternating between my own recipe (aka the good stuff) and a simplified recipe evolved from something I hastily threw together for my cheese-hating mother-in-law once when everyone else wanted pizza (aka Grandma's spaghetti).

The big problem has been that only my son likes the meatballs I use in Grandma's spaghetti, and my wife and daughter tolerate them at best.

It finally dawned on me that I could just ... make the good stuff and add meatballs to my son's serving.

So I asked, in case there was something else about Grandma's spaghetti that he liked, and he said That's fine.

Problem solved.

-- CAV