It’s a good day that ends with jambalaya

The weekend started out a bit rough, with John having to endure a trip to the dreaded motor vehicles division. And I had a migraine (better now, thanks). And we’re missing the vacation we’re not taking.

The current owners of the house we’re buying in Pacitas are having an estate sale this weekend. Except they’re in Colorado. They just took the items they wanted, moved away, and abandoned the contents of the house to the estate sale company.  This is the house that’s getting the septic system replaced. It’s not totally apparent to us what happens if an estate sale visitor uses the toilet (which they will), but we believe the septic tank is in, even though the drain field definitely isn’t.

Since we are not the owners yet, we have very little control or even knowledge about what’s going on out there. We did see long lines of cars parked all over the edges of the property and in the yard. I think we’d be concerned about them making a mess of the desert landscape, which is very slow to recover from even footprints, much less car tracks, EXCEPT, how can we complain about car tracks everywhere when a huge section is torn up with backhoes? We can only hope that when we do our final walk-thru on Wednesday that everything’s reasonably ok.

Meanwhile my phone, which I dropped a little while back and had fixed, has been flakey ever since. It was finally bad enough today that while in Albuquerque on errands, we decided to stop and get it looked at again. We figured while waiting for the phone to be repaired, we could go to the nearby Trader Joe’s and get some groceries. We then got sidetracked by an ice cream shop (entirely John’s fault).

After the phone was fixed (yay!), we did make it to the Trader Joe’s, whereupon John asked me if I minded if he made jambalaya.  He’s so funny.  Why does he even say things like that? How could anyone in their right mind say, “No, I don’t want you to make jambalaya.” (?!?)

There were shrimp too; I took this photo was right before he put them in. John is an excellent cook, although he doesn’t have time to cook very often.  The jambalaya is fabulous. Quite spicy, but not so much as to distract from the other flavors.

I was going to post CCR’s “Born on the Bayou” as a fitting end to this post, but it’s not loaded on my computer and I can’t find my boxes of actual CD’s (yes, I’m old, I own CD’s – but not tapes or records – so I’m not THAT old). Anyway, they must be packed in storage (because – remodel). And I’m not posting the youtube video because it starts with an ad. So you’ll just have to hum it to yourself. Hmmm, hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm.

No wait – here we go, you’re in luck!  Look what I found, the Foo Fighters doing “Born on the Bayou” LOL, that’s excellent.  Although there’s still no substitute for Creedence Clearwater Revival (yeah, ok, I am old. fine.)

Hey Laura! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrBLs_qweYk