Scattered Thoughts . . .

Whenever we are traveling, obviously, we eat out a lot.  That being said, we always try to eat our meals in various restaurants serving different food from different cultures.  This year was no exception.  On this particular night, below, we were all (16 of us) eating at The Munich Haus German restaurant.  This is always a fun meal, albeit a bit noisy...  after all, it is a rather small German Festhaus... This may look like a rather weird salad but, I have to say that this meat-eater really likes this salad! We tried to sell Lukey on the Kangaroo Skewers or Alligator Poppers or Frogs Legs... we were greeted with one of these looks.  He was so picky on this particular night that our resident pickle lover (Lukey) wouldn't even touch a platter of fried pickles...   We had a table of 16 this year... Kenzie tried something new to her...  Kase Spatzle...  and she liked it! Our Saturday morning breakfast at Cracker Barrel...  While we waited for our

My health has been deteriorating consistently since my last doctor visit a month ago. My new specialist (for a little more than a year now) decided to attempt to simplify my myriad of medications. Some medications were eliminated while others were increased. He sort of consolidated similar medications while eliminating one or two he felt might be unnecessary and added one medication that he felt might help.  These changes did slightly simplify my four daily doses of medications but, unfortunately, my health has been in serious decline since my last visit a month ago. I was getting more and more groggy, exhausted and weakened with each passing day. I was spending more and more time in the bathroom sick (no more needs to be said about that here). I was dizzy and I wasn't thinking clearly. Oddly, even though I was overwhelmingly groggy, I was feeling exceptionally restless. I was groggy, exhausted and restless all at the same time. I slept... a lot... and still couldn't get ne

When it comes to dinnertime, we've been in a bit of a rut lately. Dinner is typically my responsibility but I've been quite exhausted in recent months so I really haven't had any desire to tackle anything complicated. Actually... I've also been at a loss for creative dinner ideas! We are definitely in a rut when it comes to dinner ideas. One of the causes of this rut is my diet due to my health problems. There are a lot of things I must avoid so our choices are a bit limited. Straying from this diet causes almost violent unstable health and anaphylaxis so I typically don't stray too far from my diet plan. I can, however, cheat occasionally and get away with it if I plan for it. Anyway, this really limits our meal plans. One of the dishes we've been falling back on fairly regularly is Steak Tidbits. This dish is a rather simple one of some very tender slices of grilled steak on garlic bread served with a side dish of a tangy sauce. It took me many years to