The real McCoy

Yum! This sounds so wonderfully yummy..Trinidadian Rum Punch. It is the real deal, not Hawaiin Punch with a splash of rum. Thanks for a hint of the tropics Karen!

I am totally making it. Will try and use some Jarabe in place of making the sugar water. I know, cheater, and for shame……but try boiling water and adding a pound of sugar to it while 4 kids try and “help”. Not. Bill will love having a gallon of this in the fridge over the weekend, as he is a total rum addict. We will also need to invite a few people over to help get drunk on consume a gallon of this tropical, rum nectar of the God’s.

It would actually be fantastic in the fridge of the “little house”, but the damn weather is not cooperating with us. For all of you up north who are losing electricity and having to dig tunnels through the snow to get to your cars, and whom the temps are being registered in the negative, I will apologize up front for my little, Texas weather rant.

I confess today that I am a Barbie when it comes to nasty weather. I like sun, sand and sea. I need me some sun or I become a cave dwelling, bellowing blob of negativity. It has been cold and rainy here for over a week. Cold, wet, and when the cold gives way to warm, then we get humid, foggy misery. In addition, sickness has been running through my house now, in spite of sterilizing everything, including the children.

So, we are trapped inside with sick children and worst of all, a sick Bill. (Gasp) He has a bad chest cold and is down for the count. This man is rarely sick, I guess because he is exposed to everything and has the immunity of a bottle of 10% bleach. When he gets sick and you know it (he rarely will tell you he feels bad), he is really sick. Still, he heads out the door for work, which is so gross…I mean, would you want your physician listening to your lungs, while you can audibly hear his gurgling and wheezing? I didn’t think so. He goes in anyway, and comes home feeling like hell, and no one can go outdoors to escape his misery.

Until today……….the sun. That golden globe of warmth and happiness? It climbed high into the sky today, amid a sea of blue.

Gorgeous, clear blue skies....

The temperature is 70 degrees right now. I feel frisky!!!! I want to run outside naked. I want a tan! I want to air out the little house and prepare it for a weekend at the beach.

Well, you say??? What am I waiting for? …………This weather today…it is a tease. It is supposed to cloud up and rain again Friday and Saturday and forever into the future according to the paper. I feel like I am in Seattle or something. Alas! No, I am in Texas……..where the weather is schizophrenic and the people of my house are getting all pasty and white….with bags and dark circles under our eyes. Like little vampires….with runny noses.

At least you northern people have fluffy white snow to play in…all we have is mud.