A Return to Five on Friday

Back when I blogged as So Not Organized, I really enjoyed joining in the Five on Friday community. Sadly, it went the way much of the older blogs have gone. Poof, just gone. However, good news!

My friend, Cathy, who blogs over at My Creative Life, is picking up the hosting reins and dusting them off for us. The “rules” are pretty simple, you can read more on her post, as you can really just share 5 things of your choosing each Friday.

For my first “official” return to the Five on Fridays, I present a hodgepodge of things from my week. Shall we go backwards?

ONE: The Morning Sky

These clouds caught my eye!

And then, I caught them this way while trying to capture the view from our cat’s back of the chair perch:

Now, we seem to have blue skies and sunshine. And I have a cat who is not on her perch but incessantly walking across the keyboard in demand of attention.

TWO: Last Night’s Dinner

I cannot stress how rare it is to get unanimous agreement that a new (to us) dinner is really good. Winner, winner, and it was a chicken dinner. Of sorts. I used this recipe to make spicy Korean chicken (grilled). No changes except for using regular chili powder as I forgot to search out Korean chili powder at the store.

Note while it has great flavor, it’s not overly spicy either. Served it with steamed rice, broccoli, and the rest of the cucumber salad.

My husband finished the cucumber salad when I injured my finger on Wednesday. It turned out a bit too pickled for my taste (then he shared he used less sugar as he thought 50/50 was too much. He also didn’t add enough red onion as he thought it was too strong.  SIGH. Next time I’ll use that guard that comes with the mandolin and make it right).

Still, dinner was a hit with all of us! I’ll take that win. (Or J can have it as he suggested the spicy Korean chicken)

THREE: Second amaryllis stalk blooms

The interesting thing with these blooms is I’ve hardly (read maybe once?) watered these bulbs. My pots of neglected amaryllis bulbs sat all winter in our bedroom in front of a west facing window where I ignored them short of maybe tripping over a pot once. And this one, just on its own decided to put up stalks and flower. Once the flower budded, I think I added a bit of water maybe once. And suddenly, flowers! Tell me a little sunshine isn’t the best thing ever.

FOUR: More Early Spring Flowers

Violets. Every year when these start taking over the lawn, I think about making jelly from them. Maybe this is the year the thought becomes a reality? These are just a few very early ones, need many more for jelly. And while I don’t think these are edible (to humans), the early pollinators adore the squill that takes over the yard first. It doesn’t like to be held in by any garden beds and just pops up randomly (it was here before we were) in the yard. I stopped fighting it long ago as it disappears long before the lawn is even long enough for a mowing.

FIVE: What Bird is That?

Me as I glanced out the back door earlier this week calling to my husband. Why? I’m the one who can generally name the birds. He didn’t know.

Oh, wait a minute. That’s the back of the bird! Turn around little birdie.

More, please and let me get the camera to focus.

Oh, not so little. Well, little for a hawk! Hello, some type of hawk. Is it a young cooper’s hawk? Or a sharp shinned hawk? Not sure. Did I mention to start we had 2 and then one flew away. The one that stayed played peek a boo with me for a bit. And then there was this brave or stupid little snowbird (dark eyed junco, spring is here go home!) out there at the same time.

He didn’t get eaten this time but I did see the hawk again the following day (in a different tree one yard over).

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And so ends my hodgepodge of things for Five on Friday. If you are trying to decide what to blog about today, might I suggest joining in the Five on Friday and linking up over at My Creative Life.