Kennyisms

10/30/13- Kenny was going to give a presentation on Eisenhower and said that he helped create NASA. He said this led to us landing on the moon. 

Jen - who was it that landed on the moon?

Kenny- Lance Armstrong. 

Jen - no

Kenny - oh come on, either Lance Armstrong or Buzz Aldin. 

While visiting family at Christmas Kenneth taught Kenny how to play poker. He started by showing him which hands were best from high card to royal flush. The next day they were playing and I overheard this conversation:
Kenneth: I bet $1
Kenny: I raise you.
Kenneth: are you sure?
Kenny: yes, I'm sure
Kenneth: ok, I have a pair of 8's. What do you have?
Kenny: I have a pair of 10's.
Kenneth: wow, I guess you knew what you were doing
Kenny: yep, and dad, I just want you to know when to hold em and when to fold em.

Jen and Kenneth talking about Chicago
Jen: chi town
Kenneth: Windy City
Jen: home of Oprah and Michael Jordan
Kenny: Michael Gordon?
Jen: yes, Michael Gordon, the famous bocce ball player. Geez.

Kenny just improved on an Aerosmith song... "You look like a lady"

7/25/21 Kenny trying to use the "half your age plus 7" rule for dating... Kenny: Half of 17 is...14, no, 13.5 1/29/22 Kenny: what's the phrase for sex? bumping socks? Oh yeah - knocking boots! 1/30/22 Kenny reading this blog - oh Jen, if you would have made me that butterscotch pie you would have had 100 and not 99. Jen- buttermilk pie? Kenny - ahhhh LOL 12/11/22 Kenny talking about his upcoming birthday, he didn't want us taking him to a place that sang. We said we would find a place that put a sombrero on him and sang. Kenny starts singing "Feliz Cumpleaños, feliz Cumpleaños, Te deseamos a ti, ..." Then he thought about the next line and sang "I don't know the word for birthday, ... wait". He laughed really hard at himself. 2015- Kenny sitting in front of us on a plane, talking to the random lady sitting next to him: Welcome to Canada Airlines, here’s your tea You come to America, and your get a fire arm and student loan debt Sure, I’ve dealt with wolf spiders, but I don’t want them to sting me. Anything with more legs than me, just nah. Except dogs and cats. One thing that makes me nervous about traveling to Japan, is that I heard they have giant hornets. In Canada, they have poutine, and what can I say I like being fat. I’m a huge history buff, and I like to add what countries history I like. Mexico, their history is pretty shotty... a few history facts then Revolt revolt revolt. I could probably teach history to a bunch of adults and they would hear things they’ve never heard. For sand colors we have pristine white and eggshell white. I wonder if there are weird laws in Montana Space is scary. There’s things floating around up there that can kill you. And do you know how hot it can get? Like 3000 degrees. The only thing hotter is the metal part of the seat belt on a hot summer day. Uranus - I think it’s a gas giant. Why can’t they have a teddy bear fish or make up fish or a fish that doesn’t look like it came from a back alley. July 2019: Jen, the next time you’re at the store can you get more of that hair wash? Lunch w Grandma - 8/8/21 Grandma gets in truck- to Jen: what happened to your hair?!?! No, I like it. It looks like a wig. At lunch: grandma to waitress (looking at Kenny) “how do you like his hair? He’s single. He’s going to be a senior at Bixby”. Waitress: I have a boyfriend Grandma: oh, ok. He works at Quiktrip Grandma: Kenny (Kenneth) turn around and look at that guy, he looks like Robin. (Kenny looks) Grandma: Don’t look when he’s looking! Kenny: Robin has less hair. Grandma: holding up a small asparagus, I wouldn’t serve this…. But I’ll eat it Talking about birthdays… Kenny: (about Duncan grandma) she was born in 1953? Grandma: (looks at Jen) you were born WHEN? Waking Kenny up - Jen: Do you know what time it is? Kenny: (still sleepy) yeah, it’s 7 after 8:45

Happy birthday Kenny!

We decided to re-do Kenny's room for his birthday. Each wall got paint and decorations for his favorite teams.

Since his room will probably never be this clean again I thought I'd take a video of it!

Thanksgiving cooking... Part II

I started today up at 10am, which is way too early for me but I was dreaming of cooking food and woke up without an alarm. At 11 I put the rolls out to rise:

Of course I've got my handy excel bar chart schedule to let me know what to do when. Plus it helps me not overload my oven or stove top. Who does anything without the help of excel I want to know...

At 1:30 we started getting the turkey prepped. And because deep frying the turkey isn't fattening enough, we must inject it with Tony Chachere's Cajun Butter too!

After prepping the green beans and corn I started the bacon, onions, and celery for the stuffing.

I think it turned out pretty good!

While the turkey cooks the ham goes in the oven. Also, the giblets and neck get cooked down for the gravy. Looks gross now!

But turned into this:

In the end we had so much food. It was delicious and well worth the hard work. Well, worth the hard work considering we only have to do it once each year.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Let the cooking begin!

With Thanksgiving drawing near it's time for me to start the cooking. I started this morning making the whiskey cream sauce for the pecan pie. Darn you pioneer woman for your wonderful recipes!

Then on to the pecan pie. 1 1/3 recipes made 2 pies. One for tomorrow and one to share.

Oh Apple Pie - this is my favorite. Will I be able to wait until tomorrow to sample this? We'll see...

Now, last but not least for desserts - pumpkin cream cheese truffles. I'm trying this in lieu of pumpkin pie this year (with Kenneth's blessing of course). This is a recipe I found on pinterest. It sounds good but there is NO WAY this makes 30 truffles unless they are tiny. This is what one recipe made. It's chilling now and we'll see how it turns out. I might need to double it.

The recipe made 21, and that was using my small scooper. These were about 1" diameter.

I did have to sample one. The cook can't serve food without tasting, right? If food network has taught me one that it's that! I'm surprised to say that they are good! I'm not a pumpkin lover and never eat pumpkin pie... but I'll definitely have more of these. I'm hiding half of them from Kenneth now! The orange zest really stands out and adds a fresh taste. They don't just scream pumpkin but are very good!

And now the cooking is complete for today... the turkey and ham are thawing and I'll set the rolls out early to rise tomorrow. Time do do some laundry and dishes.

The Bar is Finally Open!

In 2008, wow - it's been that long. In 2008 I knocked a lovely hole in the wall between the kitchen and living room. I thought it would open it up (and wanted to watch tv while cooking). There's always ulterior motives, right?

Then in 2009 (or '10, it's been so long I forget now) Kenneth got me a lovely chunk of rough cut cedar to build a bar with. It was to match the mantle (as seen above) and would fit in the nice new opening.

But I couldn't just put a rectangle piece o

f lumber in the hole - oh no, that would be way too easy. So, I came up with a plan of how it needed to be cut here and notched there. Seeing as how this is 4"x12" cedar not just any saw will cut what I wanted to cut.

To the point - my wonderful friend Bob was able to cut just what I needed and FINALLY - the bar is open. It looks like we knew what we were doing. I've got a sealer that I need to put on but other than that it's up. And it only took 3 years!