T Stands For Tuesday Friends and Good Eats

Happy Tuesday everyone,
   T is where we share a drink related post and link up with our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth. You are most welcome to join us.

   After the wintry cold where the lake of the ozarks was the coldest ever recorded, we came back to more seasonal temperatures. This past weekend was also opening deer hunting weekend when we have hosted allot of friends for hunting in the past, but mostly friendships and lots of really good foods  The guys were going to have one more gathering but the week before most could not come. Our close friends from Wisconsin wanted to get away, wanted to see us-it's been over a year now, and see the lake house.
   So, it was really great catching up with them again. Marie makes those delicious cheesecakes every year for Larry's birthday (October birthday) and we cook and grill well together in the kitchen.
    Marie has been into visiting wineries all over the country so she usually has a list for us to check out. One was closed although their site online said they were open, so we drove to another one. We also went to our favorite grocery store again to pick up awesome filet mignons, shrimp, and other good stuff. So it turned out to be an extremely long day for Larry.
    Sunday we all just slept in, ate, drank wine, watched games, visited and drank more wine, and then grilled up fajitas.
   Of course I totally forgot about taking photos til the fajitas

There is a skillet full of refried black beans with tomatoes and chilis on the back burner.

She grilled up two of these flank steaks

I have a few drink references this week-this is the wine we drank over the weekend.
    The one on the far left is a bottle that Larry picked up several years ago for the 150th anniversary of the civil war when he visited a friend that lives close to Gettysburg-that was an exceptional bottle of (expensive) wine, so was nice to share with good friends.
    The middle bottle Marie brought down with her-one of the wines she picked up when she did her girls weekend out exploring wineries in Indiana. I was brought up in Indiana so she thought of me. and the other bottle I have shared before-from Aldi another really good red wine
   I was also drinking my decaf coffee through out the weekend too

When we picked up the food for the weekend, Marie's husband grabbed a 6 pack of this locally brewed beer-out of Springfield, Mo they said it was really delicious. (I took this photo looking into the frig.)

 
 We used the whipped cream on top of warmed up apple-pear crisp that I had made.

This was my wine glass from the civil war red wine, and Larry's ice tea

All weekend we were enjoying the views on the lake-canada geese, pelicans, numerous different ducks which we were trying to identify and a few boats too.

I guess now that the boaters are gone the water fowl have returned. We see them every day now.  We also saw an eagle fly down close to the window-that was very cool.

This seems to be the spot the canada geese really like-they sit up on the slate rocks or the grass for awhile and then swim around and return

While doing the laundry today, I worked a bit on my embroidery for the seat covers  I didn't like the way the small fish turned out so took all that out. will re do

and for some reason last week one day out of the blue I decided I wanted to see if I could learn how to do calligraphy. Have often thought of it for my handmade cards, so with the help of our CJ, I picked up just one pen instead of the whole set of sizes to see if I could do this first, a book, and paper. In the mail I got two of the items today, the book and pen. I think I will try the Italic first. Oh and still need a couple things to figure out my angles for holding the pen correctly-I need to look into that more before I start practicing

I showed our friends where the eagles sit up in the trees when they visit-so we kept a look out for them-of course this one showed up around our dinner time-2 pm. today after our friends had left to drive back home to Wisconsin in the early morning.

Happy T everyone!