Sandi Chats

Seems this winter has worn on long enough...can I get an "Amen" for that? And meal planning around warm comfort foods has also worn somewhat thin at our house. We have probably made 10 gallons of chili, 10 gallons of vegetable beef soup and 5 gallons of cheeseburger soup, which are our favorites, plus the occasional bowl of tomato or potato soup. Basically we are just tired of the same old same old stuff! And yet, it is still soup weather and appears that it will be for some time to come! Spring doesn't seem in any hurry to show its face! Last weekend we were in Valentine for the Heart City Jackpot. A lady from the Nebraska Adoptive and Foster Care Parents support group sold concessions at our shoot. On Sunday she made white chicken chili. Now I've heard of it and seen recipes for it, but in my little square box chili must be made from beef with a tomato base and red beans for it to be real chili.  Robbi set up her concessions for breakfast and put that soup on

We have a policy at our house, we never buy new furniture and we never buy used appliances. The new appliance policy is just so we don't have to replace appliances so often by buying them half worn out. The no-new-furniture policy is a matter of economics. We finally hauled off our old couch last spring. We picked it up at the local "trash to treasures" event a number of years ago. It was butt ugly but built to last, however we managed to wear it out after many years of use. Even after it broke, we propped it up with a 2x4  block for a couple of years. It was finally just time to get rid of it, so out it went! So for several months we lived without a couch. I didn't realize how much I would miss a couch. I had a comfortable easy chair, but by the time I sat down and two dogs joined me in it, and I tried to juggle a drink and a book, none of us was comfortable. One of my guilty pleasures is to lay on the couch. A couch, a good book, a blanket and a Sunday afterno