{"id":49851,"date":"2020-10-25T22:41:49","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T05:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=49851"},"modified":"2020-10-27T09:59:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T16:59:43","slug":"a-day-to-recover-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=49851","title":{"rendered":"A Day To Recover!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The future, the present, and the past walked into a bar. Things got a little tense.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Welcome, Sunday, a day to rest! I called Mary, and she asked if I wanted to come over and cook something.\u00a0 Well, the answer was a resounding, “Yes.”\u00a0 \u00a0I did add a caveat; we had to rest and relax as these last few days have been busy! Poppy was getting too pooped to pop!<\/p>\n

I arrived, and Mary had the latest cooking magazines out.\u00a0 I flipped through a few pages and landed on my favorite, Irish Stew a la Halloween!<\/p>\n

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Yummy yummy!<\/p><\/div>\n

We immediately went to the refrigerator and began to collect the necessary ingredients.\u00a0 Well, we came up a little short, so it was time for an Albertson’s run.\u00a0 We donned our cold-weather attire and headed down the road.<\/p>\n

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One of our more classy recipes! Thanks to Bill S.<\/p><\/div>\n

While I was getting ready to go, Mary got the cauldron out, which is used normally to burn loose incense on a charcoal disc, to make black salt (used in banishing rituals), for mixing herbs, or to burn petitions (paper with words of power or wishes written on them). Perhaps we should burn the grocery list?<\/p>\n

Arriving at Albertson’s at 10:00 AM, the place was almost empty, almost!\u00a0 We went up and down the aisles collecting the needed ingredients.\u00a0 I glanced at Mary’s shopping list, which contained fillet of a hoop snake, the eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog, vampire buggers, adder’s forked tongue, and a blind worm’s tail, lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, my list had more mundane ingredients like stewing beef, fresh garlic, golden potatoes, bloody mary mix, vodka, and whipped cream!\u00a0 Whipping cream?\u00a0 \u00a0How come she gets all the fun stuff?<\/p>\n

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They were out of Vampire buggers; we had to find a substitute!<\/p><\/div>\n

Returning home, the assistant chef and bottle washer,\u00a0 yours truly, shifted into action and began the preparatory work.\u00a0 I got out my $4.95 Ginzo knife, which I ordered from the Home Shopping Channel, and began to terrorize the grocery bag contents. Its blade almost as sharp as an Oscar Meyer hot dog.\u00a0 The silly thing could not even cut hot butter.<\/p>\n

Not to be thrown off my game, I went to the garage on got a pair of welders gloves, two layers of chain-mail, and called 911 to alert them they may be getting a call.\u00a0 With an ultra-sharp knife in hand, I went to work!\u00a0 One could hear the air being cut as my blade approaches the sound barrier as it whizzed through the ingredients like a two-by-four through wet cement!.<\/p>\n