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.)

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.

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!

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.

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.

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!

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!

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.

We have been on the Mediterranean Diet (National Lutheran Schools Week has been a challenge for me) for two weeks and Heidi came up with this delicious and colorful meal tonight.

Even Liam agreed 👍 that it was pretty darn good!

As well, we have been eating Overnight Oats in various flavors for breakfast mixed with almond milk with good results.

At lunch today I had a sweet orange pepper with hummus and it was fantastic!

The Town House is back open!!! New ownership and Jade is the manager. Let the good times roll!!!

Since it was breakfast I didn’t get any, but, they did have peanutbutter pie. 🥧

After some productivity around the house, Heidi and I got another winter hike under our belts. 41 degrees and no wind made the 2.2 Trail #6 hike very enjoyable.

As well, we got in the hot tub while the 🌞 sun was shining. A wonderful Sunday.

Heidi was explaining frozen fog at dinner and I immediately knew what she was describing. I had stopped on the way to school this morning to take this interesting picture. However, I didn’t know it was called frozen fog. Proud to say that Heidi and I, along with our friend Stephanie Lambring, we are life long learners! You never know, “frozen fog” may be a Jeopardy answer some day.

Tomorrow is the fourth snow day this week and I have a daily challenge to be productive.

To prepare for snow day #4 we had 🥓 Bacon, BBQ Cheesebugers 🍔 on a 🥨 pretzel bun, Tater Rounds, and Knorr 🍜 noodles. Restaurant Quality!

As for the productivity for tomorrow, my idea 💡 of productivity and Heidi’s don’t always match up. I hope to exercise and continue the Man Cave organization project. Although it includes listening to 🎼 music and playing with sports cards, it can be work. Unfortunately, Heidi has to brave the elements while myself and the dogs stay in the cozy house. I’ll let you know how it turns out.

On a roadtrip to See the grandkids, via Costco, we added on lunch at Squealers.

The meats 🍖 were excellent and we are pretty sure we will dine there again.

We had to order more fried biscuits as Lawson was very fond of them.