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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Weekend recap - RTT style

Stacy
The backstory:
Keely start Random Tuesday Thoughts.
Everyone loved it.
Keely's life got busy.
Stacy graciously took over.
Everyone loves it.
Giving Keely a much needed break.
You got all that? Yeah, me too.
Let's get down to business


I made food this weekend.  This may not seem like a big deal but I've been gone quite a bit in the last few weeks so all cooking, painting and cleaning were put on hold. Since, I consider cooking a creative outlet, putting it on hold is very hard for me. But I'm back in the saddle and have come up with something I think will be awesome! An egg baked in an avocado half. Topped with a little lime and cilantro. In fact, I'm jonesing for it right now. Except it is Tuesday; I don't have any avocados right now, shopping day isn't until Saturday and this sounds like breakfast to me. Not that breakfast food can't be dinner. Damn! I'm now convincing myself to stop at the store.

Doesn't this look like dinner?
Oh look! The California Avocado Commission has a recipe. I think this will be on Saturday's breakfast menu with a few vegetarian tweaks. Considering my love of all things avocado, (except maybe the avocado colored appliances that my mother-in-law had...ewww..whoever though THAT was a good idea?) it looks like I'll be culling through their recipe website soon.

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I painted.


 I thought I was done with this but I want to fill in a little on Sprite's bow and Jen's shirt. Other than that I think it came out really well. It is hanging on my drying wall. Jen's wonderful husband John takes the most amazing and heartfelt photos that he could keep me busy for a year trying to paint them all. Damn.You.John! (and I mean that in the nicest way because I love all of you)


This gray scale is of a friend's sleeping baby. I adore the look of it. JR wasn't sure what it was at first and I LOVE that about this painting. You really sort of have to know what the subject matter is or unfocus a little to figure it out.

Next up is the "We can afford that" banner and one of JR's grandmother boarding a train back in 1910. I'm planning to paint that one in a post-impressionism style. That ought to really confuse JR.

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The weather was a little hot and muggy on Saturday which encouraged our hibiscus to bloom.

Thankfully, it cooled down. I'm seriously hoping that we don't start summer until at least May this year.

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I've been working out very consistently for the last week and a half. While my scale and I are not agreeing, I say I can see/feel the difference. My clothes are fitting a little better. After all the travel food I've been eating I needed to get back into shape. Eating all those calories isn't hard but burning them off sure is.

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I love yoga.

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Nessa is spoiled.


In a sweet cuddly fuzzy type of way that is impossible to resist.

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That is it for me. Please take a few minutes to pop over to Stacy's place to visit other RTT participants.

Love,
M

17 comments:

  1. Your are a whirling dervish and please...Send some heat this way. Cheers Michele!!

    Matt-Man

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    1. While I would love to send some heat your way we just can't spare it right now. How about I send it during the summer?

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  2. Ah that avocado egg is just brilliant! I'll have to give it a try when mine ripen.

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    1. Doesn't it sound fantastic? The website has a bunch of other recipes that I have just got to try.

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  3. hmmm... that sounds like an interesting combo of food! My husband doesn't like avocado's though so I probably will never try.... And we got snow over the weekend. I'm thinking a little warm up would have been nice... lol

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    1. My DIL doesn't like them either. For her it is a textural issue. We're trying to break her of that.:-)

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  4. I love, love, LOVE the painting of Jen and Sprite. Just LOVE it.

    And also...now I want avocados.

    Got a curry recipe up today that would be dynamite with tofu!

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    1. Jen and Sprite did come out well. Now I want avocados and curry.

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  5. I'm not an avocado fan (ducking for cover) but you do tempt me to convert. ;)

    LOVE!!!!!!!! the painting of Jen and Sprite and the one of the sleeping baby. LOVE!!!!!!!! Probably needs more exclamations to express how I really feel. ;) You. Are. Amazing. :)

    I'm looking forward to spring blooming - but I'm with you, I'm hoping the summer heat holds off until...summer at least and not spring like last year. ;)

    I'm gonna come steal Nessa because she reminds me of Elvis. Just sayin'. :) Once we get moved, we're going to get another Elvis/Nessa puppy for sure. :)

    Spring Snow, Easter Egg Teaser, Tulip Destructo Kitty and Purple Day: RTT Rebel

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    1. Thanks!
      Spring is good...summer can be bad.
      She is so sweet and wonderful. Everyone one needs one like her.

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  6. I really think the "avocado" color was a bad idea--since if my avocados looked like the kitchen appliances that were that color, I wouldn't eat them.
    Love the paintings--they turned out great.

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  7. Yoga is good - i love it too. Now drop and give me 50 Chaturangas, Grasshopper! HAHAHA :-)

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    1. I know just how you feel about yoga. 50 Chaturangas? I'd collapse and fall on my face after 10.

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  8. Glad you're home so you can get back into the kitchen and into more painting. You're very good at both things!

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  9. I'm always a little shy of the whole cooked avocado thing. But I'm super into the whole baked egg thing. So maybe I'll be bold and give it a go. Your paintings are BEAUTIFUL!

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  10. Nessa is so soft and beautiful!!!

    Linda
    http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com

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