Friday, September 20, 2013

Friday Faves


Aaron often starts a grocery list and sticks it on a cupboard door. Usually it has items like coffee, half and half, eggs, toast (yes, "toast" because there's a certain bread that we only use for toast). On Monday I glanced at it from across the kitchen and only saw one item, which I thought was odd because we had pretty much nothing to eat. Here's what it said:

Another favorite F word

Sunday was the season finale of The Newsroom, which Aaron and I both really enjoy. So last night we finally watched the pilot of Homeland (yeah, I know, we're late to that party). I see some binge watching in my future.



Tomorrow is our neighborhood's garden party. There are empty lots next to our house and several years ago we started a community garden. The lots are now ready to be developed so this was our last growing season. Here are a couple pictures from last year's party:


Salmon encased in salt

Back in April I did a birthday post for my grandma and in it I mentioned that she loves gambling and sports and that years ago she won the newspaper's football contest. This week my mom sent me that article. This was in 1964 - check it out:


That's my aunt and my grandpa in the picture with her. The article starts like this:

"Okay, men, it's time to rally and come to the rescue of the stronger sex. A woman, mind you, has become the first person to win The Times-Mirror football contest and she did it on a week when the closest a man could come was 15 correct out of 20!"

(Grandma Elmo picked 18 of 20 correct; there were both college and pro games on the ballot.)

I could use a little assistance. For the second straight week, I picked less than half of the NFL games correctly against the spread.







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6 comments:

  1. that picture is pretty incredible!
    and i'm not even one little bit of help with football!

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  2. That is SUCH a good story about your grandma!! What a cool lady!!! :)

    So funny about your grocery list too- there have been times Jared and I have started a list and then realized it was turning into a mile long, so we scratch that and just go shopping because we need EVERYTHING haha!

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  3. I love the idea of a garden like that! so neat!
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  4. That old newspaper article is awesome sauce! How cool is that?? Grandma Elmo was one smart cookie.

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  5. You need Elmo's help!

    I'm sad that the garden is ending.

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  6. Homeland is one of my favorites. We finished season one and just started watching season two. The problem is - I refuse to pay for Showtime.

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