Today has been a busy day, and tomorrow promises to be worse.  It’s not so fun to have time away when a whole week’s work gets crammed into the two days one is back.

But that’s okay.  At least tomorrow is Friday even though it will only feel like Tuesday.

The drive home yesterday was long but uneventful.  We made a game-time decision to take 35W instead of 35E due to “major delays” on 35E.  I have no idea if there were really delays or not, but we made it back in 7.5 hours (which included 4 breaks:  1 beverage, 1 excretory, 1 meal, and 1 car-fuel), so I guess that’s not so bad.  One guy said he did it in 6 hours, but he may possibly be insane.

Iowa is much nicer now than when we left.  We have great big zucchini in the garden and bigger-but-still-small lemons on the tree.  If all those bad boys mature, we’re going to have a whole lot of lemons.  I’ll need to look into some really great lemon recipes.  It’s a Meyer lemon tree, and it seems like I’m always seeing candied Meyer lemon peel and stuff, so I guess it can be used in a variety of forms.

I’m thinking maybe this Meyer Lemon Budino or maybe just a nice Meyer lemon curd to spoon over grilled angel food cake or something.  I can see it doing well in savory dishes, too, like rubbed on a grilled chicken or stuffed into a smoked duck.