Sunday, January 11, 2009

1/11/09 Ten Dozen Eggs Later....

Today Ann and I had to go shopping for the Volunteer's Breakfast we're having tomorrow. This is our way of showing the winter residents that lead the different activities such as horseshoes, bridge and line dancing that we appreciate all they do. We're expecting thirty eight for breakfast.

We gave it some real thought as to what to serve them as we wanted it to be something that hadn't been done here before. So we decided on omelets. Just not any omelets but omelets that are cooked in a plastic bag in boiling water.

So off we went to Walmart for groceries. I drove our truck that we have for sale, the 350, and she met me there in her car. I left the truck when we were done and Bob and I picked up later in the day. We wanted to leave it there where it will get lots of exposure. What's busier than a Walmart parking lot?

We decided we had better get 10 dozen eggs to be on the safe side. We bought six ham steaks to be chopped up, a large box of already sliced mushrooms, two good sized onions, fifteen tomatoes, four containers of orange juice, 3 dozen bagels and flavored cream cheeses. Freezer bags, we bought several boxes of quart size freezers bags to cook the omelets in too. Everything came to less than $74.00 so breakfast is costing us less than two dollars per person!

When we got back to the resort we got right to work chopping everything up to get it ready. We had strips of green and red pepper left over from New Year's Eve veggie trays in the freezer so we chopped them, and we had a leftover can of black olives so we added that to the list and we had three different kinds of shredded cheese in the freezer too.

There is quite a lot to choose from to put in their omelets. I sure hope they like them! I sure hope this works! I have never cooked eggs in a plastic bag before but others have said they have and it works so we're going with it.

This afternoon we had the first ice cream social of 2009. We had a pretty good turnout and served 37 ice cream sundaes.

I'm looking forward to tomorrow so that I can call the physical therapists to get started there. It is so difficult getting dressed, getting in and out of vehicles, climbing steps, WALKING! This has got to end soon, its going on much too long now.

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