The Adventures of Don and Corrine

Hashbrown Casserole Followup Post

Don — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:18:00 +0000

I just wanted to put a little post out here to let you know that the casserole was quite yummy. It was so good, my sister was very glad that we cooked it in her casserole dish so we had to leave it there. So if you need or want to make a quite yummy hashbrown casserole, I’d recommend checking this one out.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Hashbrown-Casserole/Detail.aspx?strb=1

Hashbrown Casserole

Don — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:23:31 +0000

I think we are going to try and make this for Thanksgiving. Hopefully it will taste pretty good.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Hashbrown-Casserole/Detail.aspx?strb=1

I’m mainly posting this up here so I can find this recipie later, and so I can refer to it in a few days and explain how it tasted good or bad.

Oxford Thanksgiving with Friends

Don — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:48:48 +0000

Thanksgiving may not feel like its here yet, but it is. Well atleast for us. Every year before the 4th Thursday of November (traditionally Thanksgiving day). Our local group of friends usually gets together and celebrates thanksgiving. We have pretty much what you would expect to have in a normal thanksgiving. Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, etc, this year was no different. Instead of doing our turkey this year in an oven, like we have for year, one of our friends mentioned that her dad had a deep fryer for turkeys if we wanted to try it. So after very little persuading, we decided to give it a try.

Here are a few pictures of the setup. Big fryer, propane tank, a place for Don to hide and stay in the sun but out of the wind.

After cooking a 20lb turkey for 60minutes we took it out of the fryer, and this was the result. Not too bad if I do say so myself, since this was our first attempt at frying a turkey. While I sat out in the cold waiting to make sure the turkey didn’t blowup or anything like that, Corrine was inside making soup and making the tables look pretty. Here are a few pictures of the house. And it wouldn’t be a cold day at our place with out a fire.

After everyone arrived ate a good meal we went down by the fire to play games, and just have a good time. Here some pictures of 22 people in our basement around fireplace.

My Fair Lady

Don — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:38:30 +0000

We had a fun Sunday, after church and lunch, we just relaxed and hung around the house, and then John brought over My Fair Lady. I don’t think we have seen the whole thing before, but its one of those movies that everyone needs to see, so we did. It was a good show. It was quite loverly.

Hockey Game Tonight

Don — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:45:19 +0000

We went to an awesome Miami Hockey Game tonight. Miami played Ferris State, and it was a hard fought battle, and after regulation the game was tied, so it went to a 5 minute sudden death overtime. And since we still couldn’t score during that, the game went to a shootout. It was an exciting way to end the game. Each team gets 3 penalty shots to score, adn whoever has the most goals after that wins. Well they kinda win, I think it actually goes down in the books as a tie, but it is quite exciting to watch a shoot out.

When we went to the Miami vs. OSU game at the beginning of the season, there was also a shoot out that night, and we didn’t win the shootout, but it that was still a good game.

iPhotoToGallery

Don — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 03:22:27 +0000

I just love this plugin that I found a while ago. Its called iPhotoToGallery, and it does exactly what it’s name says. It is a plugin to iPhoto that allows you to publish directly to Gallery, which is great since that is what we use for our photo album. So check out the results of this great plugin and check our our cool pics.

Bonfire

Don — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:05:33 +0000

Last night we planned on having a bonfire, but since it rained all day of Friday, we decided that it would be a bit wet so we had an indoor bonfire. We had about 12 or so people come over for a cookout, where I cooked some burgers and hotdogs on the grill and then just hung out for the rest of the night. We then burned some wood in the fireplace and played some wii and had a good time. People stayed over and hung out till around midnight.

Saturday was a busy day as well. Corrine and I started the morning, with choir practice and then Corrine and the girls went out for lunch, and since it had rained the day before Rob and I decided that we should have the bonfire anyway and burn the brush that we had acquired for the past few years. So we burned a lot of the tree that Rob cut down the week before, along with a whole lot of the brush that we have been building up for the past 3 years. While Rob manned the fire Corrine and went off to learn how to make dumplings at a dumpling making class. It was a lot of fun, and we got to eat a whole lot of them, they were pretty good. We then came home from the class and helped Rob and John finish putting brush on the fire and then we ended up having a pile that was about 12 feet in diameter of ash and embers. Then we all came in an played some more Wii. Great weekend of fun.

Cleaning up for Next year

Don — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:33:34 +0000

I spent a few hours on Saturday, clearing the garden, and tilling to be ready for next year. After Paul spent time this summer fixing the tiller up and making it run like new, I spent several hours tiling so the garden is almost ready for next year. I think I need to put something on top of the soil so it will be ready to plant for the fall, but I’m not exactly sure what I should put on it. I read somewhere that I should put peat moss and compost on top of the soil and then as it snows and it freezes and melts the nutrients are supposed to seep into the soil to make it better for next year. Any thoughts? It seems a little silly that I am asking advice about compost and that sort of stuff, but its about gardening, someone should have some insite for me.

Visitors from Australia

Don — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:22:00 +0000

We had a fun party the other night. Maggie and Shinji were in town from Australia, so we had a great time with them and several others who were still in town. We had a fun time hanging out with them, and others for the night. Hopefully we will get some pictures up, but we’ll see.

Hurricane hits Cincinnati

Don — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:14:15 +0000

Incase you haven’t heard, there were winds close to 80mph were recorded in the Cincinnati area on Sunday. The reminants of Hurricane Ike, combined with a cold front to cause crazy winds to come through the area on Sunday afternoon. We lost a tree in our front yard, and many shingles off of our roof of the house, but otherwise not that bad. During some of the storm I was out in the yard putting things away, and saw white caps on our swimming pool. Thats just nuts.

Our power went out Sunday afternoon, but it came back on around 3am Monday morning, so we were definately one of the lucky ones. Most of our friends in Oxford didn’t have power, so they came over to our house on Monday, to charge laptops, cell phones, etc. Whatever they needed to keep going. Our big freezer in the garage is now full with food from people, who still have no power. So it was an awesome blessing to be able to serve our friends.

Here are a few pictures, from our house

Here are a few pictures from Rob & Annie’s house of the huge tree that fell in their front yard.