chicken salad

The super market's rotisserie chicken makes life a lot easier.  It is also delicious so why fight it?  Once the meat is off the carcass, I throw it in the stew pot with lots of fresh herbs and let it simmer away to goodness.  Back to the chicken: I made a delicious chicken salad with the succulent chicken and every kind of raw vegetable from my refrigerator.  It is topped off with Chuy's dressing.  I am sure I have given you the recipe from the chain of restaurants called Chuy's.  I keep a batch ready in the fridge to put on salads, to use in Mac & cheese, to use for dips; it's an endless source of tasty pleasure. I found the copycat recipe online and it tastes the same when I make it.  I must confess I have started adding things to it because I cannot leave well enough alone. So let yourself go and enjoy.

Well, it has been ninety and over for several days in a row.  Most unusual for September.  The schools shut down at noon on Monday due to the heat.  The sissies.  I remember have over thirty students in a classroom, the room registering 110 degrees, and we did not shut down.  I have never taught in air conditioning in my life except when I had the reading van. I can still feel those hot days and the extent we went to in order to teach in those conditions.

The falling leaves are taking over as they do here at Many Branches every year.  The pool will close soon when it cools off, probably late October.  The later you cover and the earlier you uncover you will find your pool less dirty in the spring when it is opened.

All is quiet here.