Hello from Houston!

I’m in between planes --- and have a couple hours of layover time to find a quiet place and plug in to charge my phone and to check email, check facebook, check blogs, check favorite quilt-sites ---in other words, waste  find productive time!

I already power walked the terminal in Dallas for an hour….keeping up with my New Years re-committal to move this ole body as much as possible.  Use it or lose it.  Its important.  The movement you do doesn’t have to be of marathon runner quality or intensity, you just need to MOVE.  I stood while teaching class for 3 days.  I stood to give a presentation last night. Today it felt good to MOVE!

Oh, and special thanks need to go to Regan who suggested that I sing “I am woman, hear me roar!” to get “Delta Dawn” out of my head!  THIS IS NOT HELPING!!! LOL!

Janet said in the car…..that earworms are caused by your brain not being able find the END of the song, so it continually goes ‘round until you reach the end, and then the earworm will go away.  I beg to differ!  Maybe I should be like that “dancing with an ipod guy” and go around through the Houston airport singing “I am woman hear me roar!”  Isn’t that just something you would love to see?

Ain’t happenin’ folks, just ain’t!

Behind the scenes….I’m getting nudgy comments from my bee friends who are having their retreat at Camp Dogwood this coming weekend – Friday, Saturday & Sunday.  I’ve been saying all along how I don’t think I dare go….I’m just returning home from Dallas, I leave for San Diego on Monday----how can I POSSIBLY fit this in?

But how fun would this be to spend a couple days sewing with Lisa, Karen, Mrs Goodneedle, Nane, and everyone?

Because it would be sewing time for ME.  That’s how.  And the book is now DONE DONE DONE! ((All but the resources page, and I can handle that easily)) and I stood there in Plano watching 3 full classes of ladies sew their brains out and I didn’t get to sit at a machine.  Because.  Do I need any more reason than that?  Just because?

Maybe if I go down Friday early ---and come home Saturday after dinner, I can get two full days of sewing in, reconnect time with my own bee gals ((Remember what I was talking about in This Morning’s Post about CONNECTIONS?!)) and still have Sunday with my family and be ready to leave for San Diego on Monday morning.

You know what is going to happen, don’t you?  I’m talking myself into this right now as I type this….Thanks for helping me make up my mind!

I also just came across this recipe, and I think it would be perfect to bring and share for a couple of lunches ---

White Turkey Chili:

Ingredients

• 1 onion, chopped
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 1/2 pounds ground turkey
• 2 (4 ounce) cans canned green chile peppers, chopped
• 1 tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 tablespoon dried oregano
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ground cayenne pepper to taste
• ground white pepper to taste
• 3 (15 ounce) cans cannellini beans
• 5 cups chicken broth
• 2 cups shredded Monterey Jack cheese

Directions

1. In a large pot over medium heat, combine the onion, garlic and ground turkey and saute for 10 minutes, or until turkey is well browned. Add the chile peppers, cumin, oregano, cinnamon, cayenne pepper to taste and white pepper to taste and saute for 5 more minutes.
2. Add two cans of the beans and the chicken broth to the pot. Take the third can of beans and puree them in a blender or food processor. Add this to the pot along with the cheese. Stir well and simmer for 10 minutes, allowing the cheese to melt.

Instead of the canned cannellini beans, I’m thinking of doing this in the crock pot with small dried navy beans.  I prefer dried to canned any day.

I’ll let you know how it turns out!

One more hour til flight time, gonna have to pull out the hexies!