Sylvia's Scenario

Happy New Year and here I go again with my first post being a salad. We’ve had a lot of over-indulging during  the holidays, as most people have,  so I am definitely focusing on salads now.  Our first over-indulgent event was my neighbor’s holiday party that I wrote about  here .  And then at the last minute, we decided to go to Boise for Bruce's office party there.  It's been awhile since we've traveled for Christmas parties because of the pandemic plus last year we were in Spain so I was a little eager to go this year. We stayed at my brother's house and had good visits with he and his wife.  Two of my other siblings were also in town so it was really nice for all of us and our spouses to be together.  We also had great visits with so many of the  Bratney Company  employees who I hadn't seen in years and various friends from when we lived in Idaho from 1998-2015. It was a very festive time to be in town and the weather was gorgeous u...

I ordered my turkey for Thanksgiving and this year we are getting a fresh, local, organic, free-range turkey that I will pick up on Monday before Thanksgiving. We use to always get our turkey from "the turkey farm", as we called it. When we moved here in 1998, I saw an ad for fresh Thanksgiving turkeys from a place called Oreda Ranch. So I called them and they said they just need to know what pound turkey we wanted and they would set one aside. The first time we drove out there I couldn't believe there was any civilization out that far. We were up in the foothills of the Rockies which boarders our area and we kept going and going and going. Where is this place?! We finally came to it and found that it was the original homestead of this family who raised chicken, turkeys, and various other livestock. They supply fresh, organic, free-range chicken eggs to the one and only Natural Food Coop in Boise. They were very friendly people and I was envious of ...