T Stands for Chicken and Waffles

     Hi everyone, including those of you who stop by  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog  for our weekly T day. I hope the new week has started off in a good way for you. We are having a few lovely cooler days after last week's heat wave, so I hope to be able to get outside a bit more. We also have hurricane Erin coming up the coast. It's not supposed to really affect us except that there will probably be small craft warnings and high seas so we may not be able to get boating this week. (Much to my husband's disappointment.)

   Not much to report on since last week it was too hot to do much of anything. I did work my 2 mornings at the lake, and this photo from last Monday at 7 AM already looks  hot and steamy   I think it was about 72 degrees F/22 degrees C at that point and our temperatures went up at into the 90's degrees F/ 30's degrees C.

Compare that to this morning's 7 AM work photo when it was only 54 degrees F/ 12 degrees C.    

You can tell it was much crisper without all the humidity.

     Swimming isn't allowed at the boat ramp, and it is one thing you can quickly be fired for if you're caught. Sadly with last week's heat it was tough to be sitting next to some clean cool water (Merrymeeting comes in usually second for one of the cleanest water in the state) when the temperature is up around 90 degrees/ around 32 degrees C. But ha-ha- I managed. 😉

    It was my husband's uncooperative sister's week at my mother-in-law's house on the lake, so I couldn't even go up for a swim there either. 😈That was OK because there was some cyanobacteria growing in the water. According to the agent who came to check it out, it was probably OK for people to swim in if you didn't go under water, but you definitely didn't want your dogs drinking it. Cyanobacteria used to be called blue green algae, but it's actually a photosynthetic bacteria. Some of them release toxins that can cause severe gastro-intestinal issues, and we didn't need that in the house, especially with the dogs.

   At the end of the week the weather turned nicer for a couple of days, so my husband and  I visited my Mother-in-law at her new care facility in Portland, Maine on Saturday. Afterwards we stopped at Costco. In their prepared food section, I got all excited because I noticed they had a chicken and waffles meal. Every now and again I order chicken and waffles if we're at a restaurant that serves it, and when I do I always get a bit of eye rolling from my husband. He'd never tried it, so it was time he did. We picked up one of their packages and decided we'd have some of it that night for supper. 

    This photo is also my ticket to T this week since you can see his glass of milk. I think Costco did a nice job with their prepared meal. The waffles were crispy; the chicken had a bit of a kick; and it even came with some real maple syrup. (And hot honey, but I'm a purist when it comes to honey.) And even better, there were 4 servings so my husband (who decided it was tasty and that he didn't need to do any more future eye rolling), got to have it for dinner twice. 😏

   Wishing everyone a great T day and week ahead.