Melissa’s Cozy Teacup

Here are those photos of the leaning towers of teaza I promised you earlier in the week.

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See the car and trailer s&p shaker? Tech hubby bought them for me on our third date to Keystone. I got car sick on the way back (winding mountain roads are no fun!) and we had to stop at a cafe’ so I could recover a bit. I was so concerned I might vomit all over him and his car! I didn’t, but it was a close call.

See the turtle s&p shakers? Mom brought those back for me one year from TX.

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Thrift store and grandma china.

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Vintage sugar shuttle.

There you have it. My messy decor-a-tea.

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The power went out yesterday for about 3 hours in the middle of the day. As the time for starting dinner grew near, I started to panic. I sat down to pray that the lights would come back on in time to cook. The minute I said, ‘amen’, the lights came back on. Woohoo!

Dinner was a success even though most of the people didn’t like what I made, salmon, each for different, personal reasons, not because I’m a bad cook. One friend had eaten salmon and became very ill and as a result, cannot even put one bite in her mouth. I completely understand this as I once became violently ill at a restaurant because of their salad bar. It has been 25 years and I still refuse to step foot into that restaurant. I know it’s a mental reaction to a physical occurrence, but still. The other person has childhood drama related to salmon. As a child he was served up salmon and spaghetti on the same plate (Please, ladies, learn how to cook! This guy is in his late 40’s and is still traumatized by his mother’s cooking!) and he and his siblings had to sit at the table until every bite was gone. I remember those days myself and sitting at the table for what seemed like forever as the situation quickly deteriorated into a battle of wills. I offered to make them both something else, but she declined saying she was still full from lunch and could make due with the side dishes; home made mushroom onion soup, steamed broccoli, wild rice, and he said he would do his best to choke it down. Well, he ended up liking the salmon as it wasn’t the canned stuff he remembered from his childhood. I had made blackened salmon and one piece with a dill seasoning mix sprinkled liberally on top. Everyone who tried it liked it but it is the last time I cook salmon for home group. (They even had seconds!) I love having iced tea with dinner and now that it is warming up, it is served with every home group dinner.

One person was absent from home group. Kudos to her husband for coming without her. I wouldn’t go to a group event like ours without my husband but that’s just the way I am. I’ve always hated walking into a room by myself and when I got married, he became my security blank for stuff like that.

So, since we were down one person, I thought we could wait for her and do the lesson next week so we wouldn’t be a head of her, even though her husband said she said it was ok to go on without her. Instead, we sat around talking about resonance and sound waves and string theory and music. Yeah, we’re all like that at our home group. I’m married to a mad boy software developer who talks tech all the time. He was in his element last night. Thank you, Lord because he doesn’t get to talk tech much with me around since I usually stand there with my eyes glazed over scripting book plots in my head while he is explaining how something works. V, one of the guys in home group, goes every Tuesday to a church in a small town near us and participates in a worship event, whereby he takes several of his instruments and plays them ‘over’ people. He says he can ‘feel’ notes resonating back at him from their bodies. V, said that on Tuesday night, there was a guest speaker who was talking about quantum physics and resonance. Hearing what he talked about was very interesting and kind of put a different perspective on why we should be careful about the things we say, as it says we should in the bible.

All in all, it was a fun evening. Please contact me if you would like some ideas on how you can get a home group of your own started.