E Learning Breakfast 2

So many students were missing school on prom day to get their hair, nails etc. done, they went to E Learning. As well, the elementary and middle schools have E Learning so here I am in my bathrobe and slippers enjoying breakfast 🍳 with my four legged fan club.

Bo, Molly and Oliver. They also enjoyed the E Learning breakfast. Check out Bo
still licking the bacon grease off his chops. 🥓

Breakfast of Champions. Bacon, eggs, whole grain toast with strawberry jam…and don’t forget the Diet Dew!!!

🥓 🍳 🥚 🍞 🍓
Last nights sunset 🌅 was a pretty ☝️ one.

From here we will have a Google Meet this morning with the fifth graders asking for a tour of the Man Cave and some time with the dogs. 🐶 Most important, the Religion lesson is about not being lazy and working hard. 2 Thessalonians 3:6-12. Have a great day with Jesus at your side.

Marty’s 🎯 Dartball BBQ

The Sauers E Train 🚂! 2024-25 Lutheran Dartball League Champions 🏆!!!
Marty Tormoehlen’s BBQ.

The culmination of the season took place at Sauers School with the tournament Monday night. A huge part of the tourney is the pork BBQ 🐽 dinner cooked and served by Marty and company. Delicious!!!

Wegan West legend Marty Tormoehlen lines up a dart 🎯 with E Train 3rd base specialist Ray Redicker as line judge.
Four boards fill the St. John’s gym with 30 church teams participating.
Dartball board.

Key Lime 🍋‍🟩 Pie 🥧

We journeyed to Key West on spring break and experienced several versions of key lime pie. The key ingredients are key lime juice and zest, sweetened condensed milk, and egg yolks; then served in a graham cracker crust.

Alabama Jack’s was our first stop for pie on Key Largo.
Oh Baby! The Florida Keys Steak and 🦞 Lobster House on Marathon Key was delicious!
No Name Pub.
Key Deer. 🦌 A small version of our white tails found only in the keys.
Blue Heaven was unique as they feature a meringue top.
This was crazy good! A slice of key lime pie dipped in chocolate.🍫 Over the 🔝!!!
Sam’ Club.

Then, when we get home, turns out that Sam’s Club in Columbus has a key lime pie that pretty darn good. Kenlee shared this piece with me and it got two 👍 👍 thumbs up!

Heidi did get a recipe 📕 book, so expect to see a homemade pie 🔜.

Alabama Jacks

Whoo Baby!!! What a way to

Enter The Keys! Alabama Jacks is a roadhouse type bar near Key Largo with live

🎼 music, cold drinks 🍺, and some great 🥘 food.

The main decor of Jacks is license plates and stickers from anywhere its customers may have been. (Dang! A Wintins Wigwam sticker would have come in handy right here.)

🐟 Fish dip and crackers. We think the Clermont 🦪 Oyster
Bar’s may be better.
Holy 🐄 Cow! The conch fritter was outstanding and we plan to try it every day this week.
🥥 Coconut shrimp 🍤! 💥
The sampler platter was over the 🔝!
We are also trying the key line pie everywhere we go. The crust on this one was excellent!
Cool panther crossing sign just up the road in the Everglades.

Fat Tuesday

Fat Tuesday, or en francais, Mardi Gras, is a celebration before Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season. New Orleans and the Gulf Coast have big parades throwing out beads and Moon 🌙 Pies etc. the day before Jesus fasted and sacrificed for 40 days. (My simple translation)

Give it up to Heidi Wintin and her version of Fat Tuesday for us out here in Grassy Fork Township.

Strawberry 🍓 pecan 🥗.
French baguette 🥖 garlic 🥖 bread.
Cheesy grits.
Cajun Boil with corn 🌽 on the cob, potatoes 🥔, 🍤 shrimp, smoked sausage 💥, and scallops. Outstanding!!!
Cinnamon Roll King Cake.🎂
Over the weekend, how about Jace “J Sparky” Sparks 🔥 and his bad to the bone 🦴 crab 🦀 🌽 🥔 boil!!! 🦀
J Sparky’s sketch of my basketball 🏀 hero Larry Bird.

So, I am feeling Fat; and instead of giving up something for Lent, Heidi and I are vowing to walk and exercise regularly from Ash Wednesday to 🐣 Easter.

Have a great day with Jesus at your side!

President’s Day Breakfast

A relaxing morning means a great 🍳 breakfast!!!

Dave’s Killer Good Seed bread has been a good way to start the 🥑 avocado toast topped with a medium 🥚 egg. Another piece with a bit of 🧈 butter and strawberry 🍓 jam and an orange 🍊 juice.

I will go into school 🏫 for some planning ahead. As well, the dogs will have a longer, yet frigid walk this morning. But after that, there will be some 🧐 serious sitting around in the recliner with a dog or two and maybe a cat on my lap while watch television.

A frozen 🥶 Sunday morning.
After a Saturday night thunderstorm 🌩️, there was a snow flurry and flooding.

B.J.’s Brewhouse: Protein Bowl

The weathered 63 year old hand beneath the beautiful two year old hand with fresh nail polish.

We started with the roasted Brussels Sprouts with a Caesar type dressing. Fabulous!

Lawson had two mini cheeseburgers 🍔 with the smiley potatoes 🥔 that were tasty as well as fun to eat.

Heidi and I each had the Protein Bowl. I had the grilled chicken and she had the blackened chicken. It contained black 🫘 beans, quinoa, roasted corn 🌽 succotash, pico de gallo, feta cheese, Greek yogurt crema and guacamole 🥑. It was very filling, on the Mediterranean Diet and we could only eat about half, so we have lunch for tomorrow.

Lawson and a smiley 😊 potato 🥔 potato.
Kenlee and Lawson in the 🪟 window behind our booth.

E-Learning Breakfast

🤕 Beat Up Omelette

With 38% of our students out with the flu, we are having two days of E-Learning from home. That consists of sending some materials home ahead of time and a good internet connection.

Today’s feature, The 🤕 Beat Up Omelette (so called because it is in pieces) consisting of yellow, orange, and red peppers 🫑, avocado 🥑 and two 🥚 🥚 eggs. Seasoned with:

On the side, avocado 🥑 toast and Smuckers Strawberry 🍓 Jam on Dave’s Killer Bread toast.

The teachers have all posted their lessons on Google Classroom and are available to the students on-line when questions arise. It sure beats going to school in June!

Mostly Mediterranean Pizza 🍕 Bowl

We found a cauliflower crust a couple of weeks ago at Wal-Mart and have recently been eating much better via the Mediterranean Diet.

The crust was a bit fragile and had broken into pieces so we put it in an aluminum pie pan, a layer of spinach, turkey 🦃 pepperoni, diced red, yellow and orange 🫑 peppers, Ragu pizza sauce and topped mozzarella 🧀 cheese. We baked them in the oven at 425 degrees for about 12 minutes and the results were fabulous!

Heidi’s was a bit more colorful with diced cherry tomatoes 🍅 and baked to a golden brown.

There was probably added sugar in the pizza sauce and the cheese had some extra calories, but the taste 👅 was spot on and the rest of the ingredients were as healthy as they could be.

Since the cauliflower crust is so thin, I think next time we put it in a pie pan again because it was so good this time.