pots, wheelbarrow, leftover tomato paste, margatitas

We were up early Friday (5/27), as we had lots we wanted to get done.  First up, I took another mystery package out of the freezer…wonder what we’ll have for dinner tonight?  Then it was off to buy pots & plants for our newly renovated back garden.  We got everything we were looking for (and more) and Michael even found me the most BEAUTIFUL pots EVER!!!!   

is this not a GORGEOUS/perfect color???

my handyman drilling holes in the bottom

By the time we got home, it was NOON and way too hot to plant…so I just carted everything to the back in our new wheelbarrow 

 

 and will get out bright and early Saturday morning to plant everything.  

self seeded petunias (from last year) on back deck

 

our pots all ready to go

 I spent the afternoon in my sewing room, putzing around, cutting more squares, putting things away, and figuring out what to work on next.  The only really productive thing I did was to load up my friend Leila’s quilt 

 and get the program set up to stitch out.  She picked a pattern called "bubble bath" which I just love.  By then it was time to go upstairs to my mystery package.  It turned out to be a pound of hamburger, so I went through my temporary recipes (these are recipes I have saved on my computer because they sounded good and I want to make them eventually.  Once I do make them (and if they are "keepers", they get moved into my permanent folders), and looked at my one pot dinners.  I found a great recipe for One Pan Beef Stroganoff, so that’s what I made.  It used 1 – 2 tablespoons of tomato paste…so what do you do with the rest of the can?  You blob it out on a cookie sheet, put it in the freezer, then pop those tablespoons into a labeled zip lock bag.  

Voila, you’re all ready for the next recipe that only uses a tablespoon or two.  Anyway, Jan came for dinner and we all really liked the stroganoff.  I had broccoli left over from last week, so that was our side dish and we finished off the latest ice box cake for dessert.  When we were at the liquor store earlier in the day, we looked for something "fun" for the holiday weekend, so I made sugar coated (because Michael shouldn't have that much salt) glasses for the margaritas:

 I read my book for a little bit after that, then snuggled in to watch TV with my honey.