Broken Legs and Rehab

My father fell and broke his leg over a week ago.  Since he was suddenly not able to walk, and we were not able to care for him, we had to have him go to a facility for rehab.

Although I'm sure he's not happy about it, it's definitely where he needs to be -- for both him and us.

April/May Goals - The List Update

First the April wrap-up .. I think my goal achievement for April was almost a total bust.  The only thing I actually did was #5, making burp cloths for my grandaughter.

Oh, I actually made hot cross buns -- that might count as a bread ... of course, that may have been in March.

I actually liked all my April goals, but I'm guessing it's either too many things or I just don't care about any of it as much as I thought.

So for May:

1. Finish baby clothes quilt
2. Send birthday cards to my sister and Cooper (henceforth CS)
3. Delete Angry Birds (target date 5/15)
4. Sew more / watch less TV

and for something new this month ...

5. Run at least one morning / week

As for the List, here are a few I'd like to get to work on:

Knit blanket for grandchild #5
Make a dessert souffle
Work on decluttering
Make a new soup
Make a new bread
Go to a minor/major league baseball game (doing that this Sunday!)
Make pillowcases for me
Take a Saturday morning walk
Go the movies with my husband

None of these is/are difficult or wacky, I just need to remember I want to do them (and then actually do them).  Wish me luck ...

Newest Grandbaby .. a GIRL!!!

Welcome Eve Olivia .. she was born on March 17 to my OS and his wife.  I've been reluctant to post pictures (hence the very long delay).  I babysat this past Saturday for the first time.  She was great -- I think she ended up staying up too much that night -- I probably ruined her sleep patterns or something.  Anyway, it'll be fun to start getting all the little frilly things ..

There's a reason for the delay in getting things which I'll write more about later, when things are resolved.

Happy Birthday, NS!

Of course, I'm a day late, but yesterday was my 3rd grandson's 3rd birthday!

He's such a cutie!!

Z is for ...

... the Zygon Cocktail

The Zygon looks like one thing (a human) but is actually something else (a Zygon). Hence I used the recipe for a Long Island Iced Tea - it looks like one thing but is actually something else. 

• 1/2 ounce vodka
• 1/2 ounce gin
• 1/2 ounce tequila
• 1/2 ounce light rum
• 1/2 ounce fresh lemon juice
• 1/2 ounce triple sec
• 1 teaspoon superfine sugar
• Cold cola
• Wedge of lemon

I though about naming a cocktail the Zocci Cocktail using this recipe. The episode Voyage of the Damned featured a Zocci named Bannakaffalatta. The Zocci are a diminutive race of red spiked aliens (this drink is red-ish and, with a dragonfruit garnish, would be perfect).


Ingredients:

• 6 oz Tequila
• 4 oz triple sec
• 1 medium sized ‘RED JIANA’ Dragon fruit
• 4 oz lime juice
• 1 oz Orange juice
• ½ tsp salt and lime wedges

Yay!! made it all the way from A to Z.

Y is for ...

...Yeti Cocktail

(Image from here)

Ingredients (recipe from here).

• Sparkling Sanding Sugar, For the rim, optional
• 1 1/2-2 ounces RumChata
• 1 bottle Blue Cream Soda

The Yeti were in several episodes. The one that comes to mind for me is Web of Fear. This drink was originally called the abominable snowman.

X is for ..

... the eXtremis Cocktail

I don't actually have a picture of this one, so I just pulled one from my Cocktail Wednesday pics.  I had to have something here after all.

Ingredients:

• 2 shots Vodka
• 5 oz Root Beer
• 5 oz Mountain Dew
• 1 slice Orange
• Ice

Recipe from here.  (I picked this one because the original name was Extreme Valentine.)

I messed up with this one and used the eXterminate cocktail for the letter "E" ... definitely should have thought that one through since "X" is such a difficult letter, apparently in the Doctor Who Universe.  Fortunately, in the most recent series, Series 10, there was an episode call Extremis (the only title for an episode beginning with "eX"). 

W is for ...

.. Weeping Angel Cocktail

(Image from here)

I pulled this one from here.  It's actually called the Angel of Death -- how appropriate.  I intend to make each of these cocktails and as I do, I will replace the images with images of my drinks.  They may not be as artsy but I still want to do it.

Ingredients:

• 2 ounces dry gin, such as Death's Door
• 3/4 ounce Carpano Antica Formula or other sweet vermouth
• 3/4 ounce Campari
• 2 dashes of Angostura bitters
• 2 dashes of orange bitters
• Ice
• 1 spiral-cut orange twist, for garnish

The weeping angels are quite possibly the greatest aliens of modern Who (although the Silence (sp?) are pretty good too). The episode where we are introduced to them is Blink -- it was the first episode that Nevada had me watch and see where that got me ....

Here are two other cocktails that I was tempted to rename the Weeping Angel:

The first is the Red Sparrow (for Sallly Sparrow from the episode).

Ingredients:

• 0.5 oz Orchard Apricot Liqueur
• 0.5 oz Lime Juice
• 0.5 oz Blood Orange Juice
• 1.5 oz Habanero Silver Tequila

The second is  the Nightingale Cocktail (for the Sparrow & Nightingale video store Sally Sparrow and Larry Nightingale end up running/owning at the end of the episode).

Ingredients:

• 1 oz. Banana liqueur
• 1/2 oz. Blue curaçao
• 1 oz. Cream
• 1/2 Egg white

We'll probably end up making the first one .. though both of the others sound pretty good.

V is for ...

... Vortex cocktail

The "vortex" is the swirling tunnel you see in the Doctor Who title sequence.  Also, Captain Jack would travel using a vortex manipulator.

I had a tough time picking a "V" cocktail.  There was an episode Vampires of Venice which led me to look for Venice cocktails.  Then there were the Vashta Nerada from Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead.  I really wanted to go with this one but had too hard of a time finding a related cocktail -- there was a Tree Shaker, a Forest Funk, a Dave Cocktail, and then a piranha cocktail (the Vashta Nerada were referred to as the piranha of the air) -- but all of those required too much explanation.  And then there was the Vespiform which had a connection to Agatha Christie .. but again a little too much of a stretch, so I settled on the Vortex Cocktail.

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 oz strawberry vodka
• 1/2 oz coconut-flavored rum
• 1 oz cranberry juice cocktail
• splash lemon-lime soda
• 1/2 lime

Recipe from here.

U is for ..

... Utopia Cocktail

(Image from here)

"U" is another tough one.  Utopia was the 11th episode of the third season of New Who.  The Doctor and Martha (and Jack) travel to the end of the universe to a planet where the people were leaving to go to "Utopia," hence the name.

Other possibilities for "U" were Union Jack and UFO, but this one is pretty and hopefully will be tasty.  I don't know when we're going to start having these cocktails, but it will happen.  Nice to have them already picked out for me.

Ingredients:

• 1 oz Cachaca (Leblon)
• 1/2 oz Peach Schnapps
• 1 tbsp Cranberry Juice
• 1 oz Grapefruit Juice
• splash Ginger Ale

Recipe from here.

Seems like a lot of these recipes have peach schnapps .. I'll definitely have to get some.

T is for ...

...the TARDIS cocktaill (Tardis-tini?)

(This is the drink made for the Doctor Who premiere party, in September 2015).  I'm not sure what recipe what we used ..  but I found a couple:

The first one, from here.

Ingredients:

• 2 oz Hpnotiq
• 1 oz crème de violette
• ¾ oz vodka
• ½ oz blue curaçao

w/edible stars

and another one from here.

Ingredients:

• 4 Parts Absolut Citron
• 1 Part Blue Curacao
• 1 Splash Lime Juice
• 3 Parts White Cranberry Juice
• 1 Twist Orange

 Here's to the T.A.R.D.I.S.