Hello Monday - March 11, 2024

    

I'm linking up with Holly and Sarah this morning for Hello Monday and a weekend recap.

I stayed home almost all day on Friday (took just a 20-minute run to the grocery store) because our new chairs for the morning room were supposed to be delivered.  I waited and waited and waited, no delivery.  About 9:00pm on Friday night, the tracking changed from "today" to "delivery delayed".  Bummer.  Vic picked up Chick-fil-A on the way home and we enjoyed that with another episode of our continuing Grey's Anatomy marathon and then Vic continued with the closet installation in Sophia's bedroom/guest room.  I put a slash there because it looks like she may not be coming home as originally planned.  We're waiting for an update so stay tuned.

I love the Elfa closet components from The Container Store, but I honestly don't remember ordering these pieces.  I had two drawers (not used in another closet remodel) so they only sent two for the four-drawer configuration, but my drawers don't match the ones shown here.  I called on Saturday morning and found out that the drawers I have are platinum (silver color) and platinum was discontinued.  I don't remember discussing this with the closet specialist.  Bottom line, I can't do anything about it now, so I'll have to take a trip to the store to exchange my platinum drawers for two more of these graphite ones.

On Saturday we headed out to the Chowderfest.  It was drizzly but we both had hoods, so it wasn't too bad.

Each of the participating restaurants had one of these signs outside.  Here we are with the grey and drizzly waterfront behind us.

Here Vic is enjoying Chipotle Cream Chicken Tortilla Chowder outside a really cool used bookstore that had stacks of old LIFE magazines from as far back as the 1940s.  In the next photo, he's lined up for Champagne Seafood Chowder (with dashi base) that came with the added bonus of an octopus gyoza.  The gyoza was yummy, the chowder not so much.

A view of the marina, in the distance you would be able to see Mount Rainier if it wasn't so cloudy.  We hadn't been to this end of the waterfront before so we discovered some new restaurants with great views that we will re-visit.

A neat mural outside one of the restaurants.

It was a long walk from one end of the fest to another, so we hit five of the stops at one end of the waterfront and then walked back and drove to the other end where we hit four others.  We missed three but by nine stops, we were pretty chowdered out.  Vic's favorite was a classic New England-style chowder while mine was a brisket and corn chowder that had the added bonus of being gluten free.

I can't believe I didn't take a single photo of the inside of one of the chowder cups!

On the way home, we stopped at a new Filipino restaurant near us to try their lumpia.  We're taking lumpia to our small group on Wednesday and our usual go-to is a bit of a drive, so we thought we'd try somewhere closer.  Think again, it was a fail.  The lumpia were giant, greasy, and limp.  I'll spare you a photo!  Vic dropped me at home, picked up Malone, and headed to Lowe's for baseboards.

Saturday night was snack night with more Grey's and since Vic was finished with the closet, he put off working on the baseboards in favor of working on his resume.  He had two call backs from the job fair he attended with recommendations for fine-tuning his resume, so he needs to make sure he's got all the keywords that federal employers are looking for. 

We skipped church on Sunday because the tracking for our chairs updated that morning and said that Sunday was delivery day.  It was really raining and since it was a doorstep delivery, we didn't want to take the chance of the boxes sitting in the rain.  Vic went back to his resume, and I finished up the Adventures in Washington two-volume scrapbook.  When the chairs arrived, Vic brought them in and put them together.  They are sitting in the living room right now as the morning room is a mess while he tackles a rewiring job.  Photos coming soon.

They look low to the ground, but they are not, it's just my lousy photography lol!

Malone lounging on the couch, totally disinterested.  He only perks up for "treat", "walk", "ride in the truck", or "dinner".  So spoiled.

And that was our weekend!