Well, I thought I'd give an update on the goings-on here this week. Hurricane Ike missed Austin by about 40 miles so Friday-Sunday we had warm sunny weather. There was a little wind on Friday and Saturday but it felt good especially since the temps were still in the 90's both days. I think we had a short shower late Saturday night, but it didnt last long. Sunday it was pretty nice so I took the top off the Jeep and went to a couple bridal shops with my friend Jen (she's the one getting married and has asked me to be her Matron of Honor! ) It was a nice day. Monday and Today have had cooler temps, 75-80 which is just perfect in my opinion! Everyone coming in to work keeps commenting on how beautiful the weather is and will be the rest of the week! I still have the top off my Jeep and I'm glad because I love it!
Watching the news at night it seems so surreal that much devistation is just a couple hours drive away. I've had a few calls from evacuees not sure what to do now that it's been a few days since the storm passed. There are big signs on 71 warning people not to travel to Houston or Beaumont because there is no gas on the way and no electricity there. I'm glad we live where we do because we haven't seen any bad weather, well except for the first winter we were here and it snowed! I miss the ocean, but not bad enough to move there!
Friday night I tried making Chinese sytle spare ribs with two different Chinese sauces we bought from China Harbor. The first kind came in a can like coffee and poured like coffee gounds with a little liquid but smelled pretty bad. The other kind was more of a liquid and didn't smell as bad. I sauteed the chunkier sauce in the pan with some pork ribs and put the liquid in a dutch oven with more ribs. They didnt come out all that great but the one in the dutch oven was much closer to the flavor I was trying to get than the one in the pan. Looks like I'll just continue my search for boneless spare ribs in restaurants in Texas!
Tomorrow night we'll be going to dinner with Skye and Nate to catch up and celebrate Rob's new job. I always look forward to spending time with them. It is so nice to have family near by!
Rob's birthday is this weekend so I'll be making him a cake. I'll update about that next week.
Toodles!
