Feast Night

I was up senselessly early today. Late night and early mornings are going to be my undoing at some point. Being tight for time I tried to make a faster breakfast. I took the very last two sausage rounds and combined them with sliced cheese and some sriracha ranch dipping sauce between some English muffins. It was quick, easy and dirtied only two plates. That’s ideal for when you’re running late.

The sky was maginicent again this morning. I was later getting to it as I said but it was still painted with beautiful hues. I didn’t both with upstairs today but went right to the porch to take my photo. I missed some of the pink and got more of an orange focus. I didn’t just snap this picture either. I stayed out there and stared at it for a few minutes until my bare feet got too cold. I probably looked like a weirdo but I wanted to appreciate it while I could.

I got my work day started shortly after, taking time to prepare my files for the discussions upcoming. It was again going to be a lot soybean discussion in the morning. I was able to squeeze in some lunch as the soybean meeting ended and my corn meeting began. Today was the transition day between the crops for me. I’d be spending some of my weekend working to finish up what I needed to for soybean and then going harder into corn the following week. Managing two crops gets to be a very hectic process at this time of year. Especially this year when corn feels more unpredictable. My late lunch consisted of soup. Pretty simple and quick. Two quick meals today, I guess I’m pretty busy when I have to reduce the amount of time eating I spend. The corn meeting was fast and furious, I’m really glad I joined it, now at least one of the Canadian team has a clue as to what they’re planning for the upcoming corn meetings. That experience wrapped up around half five and it was on to the Family Feast. I didn’t have time to do all the prep work the others may have snuck in and I was behind from the start on this meal. Chicken Parmesan Caprese was the meal and we all had our own spin on this recipe it seemed.

The Tugboat’s version. Forgot the balsamic glaze for the photo.

STL Sister didn’t forget her glaze. Her toppings got cooked more.

Mother learned to photography landscape. Paired with asparagus.

Sudbury Sister teamed her efforts with kale.

The didn’t end there. It had just begun. I almost had to bail early on the Family Feast to get over to D&D. I did manage to hang in long enough to select the next meal which is going to be further out to accomodate schedules. Now that everyone is getting back to living, we have to check on such things. Speaking of re-scheduling, we had a raucus match of D&D. We’re coming into a new area that our GM put a lot of effort into. He got a new computer that enables him to do cooler stuff. In the image below you can see a giant tentacle monster thing that moved and writhed disturbingly the whole time it was on screen. It was pretty awesome. My character got surrounded and was wailed on most of the time while I was restrained. It was gratifying to break free and smash. We had a good time of it, a lot of laughs. We were pretty high energy from the start of that one and we ended up playing longer than initially planned as we were all having a lot of fun. There would be hangovers to follow.