SharivilleLife stories from Shari

I was going to write this yesterday, but got sidetracked with the beautiful snow fall we were having, it started right after noon.  Falling in huge soft fluffy flakes that just kept me mezzmorized.  It is something I rarely get to see.  later in the afternoon Jerry actually braved the snow and we went to our favorite Mexican restaurant, Rose’s Cafe and Tortilla Factory.  They have the best taco plates with off course rice and beans and a great complimentary condiment bar.  There’s two kinds of taco sauce, red and green, I can’t make up my mind which I like best.  there’s jalapeno peppers, chopped salsa, cilantro leaves, chopped onions, am I making you hungry yet? Add these to the already wonderfully spiced beef or chicken taco’s and you really have something delicious.  We get nachos and cheese dip for an added touch.  They also give us 4 homemade tortilla’s which are wonderful with honey dripped on for dessert.  I always get sweet ice tea, which here in Texas out sells regular ice tea. It’s a southern thing. Tommy and Angie usually get margarita’s.  Yesterday the other two generations were hard at work at the shop and couldn’t join us.  They had to come home and eat chicken rice soup that I had whipped up with leftovers from Christmas.  I have really enjoyed cooking for the whole bunch.  Most of them enjoy down home cooking the old fashioned way , and that’s how I cook.  I cook comfort food. There’s lots of restaurants around when anyone feels like fancy food. We drove back home to Angie’s through the falling snow and just enjoyed the whole scene.  Everything was covered in white, with soft flakes still falling.  It was a beautiful winter wonderland. I was hoping for more, but alas it changed to rain and soon washed it all away.  It was lovely while it lasted.  Tonight  Tommy is taking all 4 of us to see the beautiful Christmas lights and decorations in Arlington area before they take them down.  I will report on those in another blog.

Well we started out with good intentions, went to Garden Ridge, in search of the perfect Christmas tree, soon got side tracked because Garden Ridge is as large as a big Costco, and stuffed to the gunnel’s with Christmas stuff, and everything else you can think of for Christmas.  Never did find the perfect tree.  We ended up at RJ Gators for fried pickles and margarita’s. YUM!! Fried pickles are a southern treat, as I’ve not found them anywhere else. If you get a chance try some.  Hooter’s make the best one’s around here.  From fried pickles we went to flavored popcorn at the theater.  Caught a great action movie, ” Law Bidding Citizen.”  Here the theaters are so large we took 2 escalators to get to the area of the movie.  Around here going out is an expedition, you never know where you are going to end up and what most interesting things you may encounter en route.  One thing about our safari’s they are always great fun to participate in. The evening ended with a late night snack, I say snack, because after fried pickles and popcorn, I was anything but hungry. We had snacks at Applebee’s, some really delicious French onion soup.for Angie and I,  Cesar salad for Felecia and nachos for Tyler and Tommy’s stand by Chicken , some type , sandwich.  Jerry is still on the mend, so decided to spend a quiet evening here at the house.  He is getting better by the hour.