Sleep Well Tonight.....

Chief Petty Officer Day is out there defending us.

( or else Butler has been taken by the Borg)

I was very grown up about this picture, I pointed out the big gun and the knee pads....

Week Nine... things start to get interesting...

1 Auburn 8-0
2 Oregon 7-0
3 Boise State 6-0
4 TCU 8-0
5 Michigan State 8-0
6 Missouri 7-0
7 Alabama 7-1
8 Utah 7-0
9 Oklahoma 6-1
10 Wisconsin 7-1

Late, late , late in the season, a good time to be #1. You know Ole Miss is chomping at the bits to be the next ( #4 ) giant killer. Auburn has them this weekend, then their homecoming ( Chattanooga ) then us, then the Iron Bowl. They, could, go , all , the , way....

dinner

Left overs.
On a tray, in front of the tv.
Judge away.

Burn off some of that energy

We learned on Miss Kiara's last trip that she does not do well off leash. Koda gets to run and run all over the trail and park but she was all over Mendon.

So they did a little on leash romping this afternoon

It was a very strange weather day up here, too warm, too humid, just heavy and damp. There are snow fences up already, because it is almost November, but still most warm.

She loves being out on the trail

Action shot!

Koda in the yellow leaves. 

Sun-day, Sun-day

Up and about early after a late sports night. Shock and Awe for the third week in a row a BCS #1 went down.... just high high will the Tigers/war-damn-eagles/plainsman be this evening? #2? do they dare dream higher.. or will Oregon and the Smurfs keep them lower ??
Anyway, my day do to post church coffee hour, Neil pets Nitro OR Lucy, there seemed to be some confusion over the pup's name. Sweet dog though.

I gayed up coffee hour, no.. really just sort of Halloweened it up. After the blow out last weekend on these exact same tables, I sort of phoned this one in.

Healthy alternative to the doughnuts n all...

A spur of the moment Jack-o-lantern....or Queen of the Nile...

The ride home from Church, all the colors are just that few days past peaks when the bright yellows and reds give way to the mottled ambers and russets and greeny golds. Just lovely...

Snow fencing all ready up....

My personal pumpkins. The yellow one, I was told, is a mutant white one. My house is a big mess, but I am thinking a nap before I clean.

World Series 2010

Most fun ending in the Giants Phillys game tonight. 

Let's see , the team that GWB used to own, verses the San Francisco values set... think anyone else will notice?? 

Dinner

A little game day Mexican Lasagna

This really could not be more easy to do, its just sort of a lot of prep work. All you are really doing is making a thick chili meat sauce. I chose black beans and pozole.

Getting all mise en placey! From the top left, parsley, with stems ( lots of flavor ), green bell pepper, carrot, hot chili , garlic and onion. Dump all this in your pot with a couple of table spoons of olive oil and a dollop of bacon fat out of your freezer. Cook for a while, this is the one step not to skimp on, about 15+ min on low.. just let the veggies get all together and happy. Wait to add the garlic until the last three or four min.

I totally screwed this up, and added the beans and hominy when I should have added the meat ( hamburger and just zesty breakfast sausage)  so, I just added it afterwards. This tasted really good on its own.

OK, so I added the meat to the beans and just stirred and stirred, it would have been better to do it in reverse, but in the end it was fine. I added a can of chopped tomatoes, a can of tomato puree, and a can of sauce. It was really thick , so I added almost a cup of just water, could have been beer...

Bad picture taking !!  Spray your pan well, then add a little of the chile, spoon all over the bottom then add your corn tortillas, more chili, then cheese, repeat until the pan is full. You can add one more layer of tortillas on the top, I just didn't. 

350 for 45+ min, THEN I cranked it up to 450 for a couple of min to get the cheese all bubbly

Makes A LOT of food.....