Lunch and trip to town

August 29 – We had a lazy breakfast this morning, cereal and fruit!  We only have one egg so no reason to dirty a pan for that and we were talking about having lunch out so no need for a big breakfast.

Once Bill left for his walk I put laundry in and got a birthday card ready to mail Jared and some books to send Kerry.  I forgot to send the card yesterday so it will probably be late!  My bad!  (as the kids say)

We spend some time mapping our trip home.  We are sure we will need to re-route further north around Houston area.  That is so sad.  They will be years getting their city and outlying areas back to some level of normalcy. 

Bill debated on where he wanted to eat lunch and found that his first choice was closed

Bald Eagle at Quake Lake

today, so we drove over to Montana between Quake Lake and Hebgen Lake to Campfire Lodge Café.  Along the way I said “eagle” and Bill slowed and I said to pull off.  I got some decent shots of a bald eagle in the top of a dead tree in Quake Lake.  Once we reached the café, we sat in the back room with all windows where we had a perfect view of the river rushing by.  It’s a beautiful spot down in the valley Madison River.  I was hoping to see some wildlife along the other side of the river but not today!

The Madison River

Since we hadn’t stopped at the post office in Island Park, we headed on around the long way back which took us along Hebgen Lake then through West Yellowstone.  Bill dropped me at the post office and I quickly disposed of my mail but had also offered to take a tablet that was left in Yellowstone by its owner, found by one of our campers and he tracked it and we went to them and picked it up and it needed to be mailed back to him.  I said I would save the owner a trip so I took a while getting a priority box and wrapping it well and taping and labeling it to go.  He was lucky that it was found by some who waited over an hour hoping he would come back for it and then they brought it back to the campground.

We stopped at the small grocery where I got us each a huckleberry ice cream sandwich and a box to go back to Florida.  The freezer is getting there!!!

Once we got home I immediately got on the computer (after securing the sandwiches) and started typing the blog.  Sue stopped by and gave me an 18 crate of eggs she’d gotten for .50.  What a deal!  She bought 4 and I guess is giving them to friends.

I finally noticed it was 6 and I hadn’t started dinner yet.  I had thawed out a big chicken breast but hadn’t made a plan.  So I sliced up the chicken and sautéed it in basil olive oil in my new copper pan until done.  Then I took it out and filled my pan with water and brought to a boil to cook rotini pasta.   After draining my pasta I tossed the chicken back in along with the leftover broccoli florets and poured in a jar of Classico Vodka Sauce!  Oh yummy, yummy!  I let it all heat through and got out some fresh parmesan and we had a one pot dinner!  I love a simple, yet elegant AND delicious meal!

Bill cleaned up the dishes and turned on the TV for some of the shows he likes.  Later I served us each a small bowl of blueberry crisp.  Once I was back on the computer working on furthering our plans for on the way home there was a knock on the door.  My first thought was I wondered what Sue needed as she is normally the only person who comes over.  Well, it was the neighbor beside her and he said Sue and Hank had to take their dog to Bozeman to the 24 hour vet that they thought she swallowed a bone while Sue and Hank were out side.  He wanted some bleach to clean up the mess from the dog as she was bleeding and it was kind of all over.  I feel so bad for them.  They are all rescue dogs and they are so good with them.  I’ll keep my fingers crossed but it doesn’t look good.

Well, time to move to the recliner with a good book!