How Many People Can Say They Have A Lovely Time Of Sharing When They Go To Get Their Hair Done. I Can.

I am finding out my hairdresser and I have more things in common than not each visit I make.  See, a good hairdresser jots down notes for their client and they remember things that work and don't work. They have their ears attuned to listening to your thoughts and concerns also. I learn something each time I go there. So, when I suggested 2 haircuts ago a method to try when applying hair color and come to find out at my most recent visit that what we did by my suggestion in reality counter defeated what I thought it was going to accomplish. What I like is she explains the scientific side of things in her explanation and not just a superficial blanket explanation. I learned to yield to her expert knowledge and experience and together we came up with a gameplan yesterday and it worked out. This hairdresser/stylist also keeps up on the latest hair techniques. When my daughter was visiting, I liked her hair color and she told me it was the latest in hair color trending, called cowboy red. She got the formulation from her hairdresser and sent it to me. So, I inquire of my hairdresser, and she knew about this trending and even the younger in age gals are dying their hair this color. So, when I mentioned it, she assured me I was already wearing cowboy copper Imagine that. I also was in search of a nail polish color like emerald green, something you would wear on St. Patrick's Day and that was my other's favorite color, she knew where to direct me to find it.

I felt led to get up yesterday morning and bake chocolate/chocolate chip scones and bring some to them along with a few bags of snack type of items. Being in this industry I am sure one does not always have time to go out on your lunch break, so I brought some things to them to enjoy.  Along with a cookbook I recently got but I am not really that interested in cooking from it but my hairdresser loves to cook and is a wonderful cook, so I asked her if she wanted it. I brought along the Dr. Ron Webb book/workbook I was planning on reading while hair color was processing but that never happened, do you know why. We both sat down during that time and had a conversation, and it was a lovely conversation at that. Well, we both now have a common connector between us. My mom died and went to be with Jesus 1/14/2023 and she just experienced this in her life 3 days later this year from my mother's anniversary. I shared with her things my mother went through at the near end of her life and even what took place in her final breaths of life as she was going through this tender time in her life. This is not a happy, happy type bond one has with someone, but it is an odd bond that hopefully can cause one to heal. I think I needed that chat to chat more than I thought in my very life yesterday and I thanked her for it. 

She has a wealth of knowledge and I always ask her about things to go and visit locally. Yesterday we were on the subject of how I stumbled upon a visit to the University of the South. Such a lovely campus. She shared with me about the Cross to go and visit. Then she told me about a natural stone bridge in the area. A library and we even touched on the subject of monks in that area also. I shared with her how I went on a retreat before with the Monks of the Genesse Abbey or something to that effect title. It was in Genesse, NY. I drove my midnight blue colored Dodge Stealth to that retreat and stopped at a lovely mall heading back home and did a little bit of shopping @ an anchor type of retail store while there.

I asked her about the unclaimed luggage store in AL and she has been there and shared with me about the finds she found when there. They even have shopping carts when you go there. I told her how the menu @ Miss Mary Bobo's in Lynchburg did not have a very appealing menu when my son was visiting and how we passed up making reservations there that day and opted to go tour The Hermitage instead. We talked about baking and why there are no good bakeries since I left Ohio. That was a simple answer that in the south if you wanted a pie or cake, you just asked your grandmother or mother to bake it and they did so there really was no need for a bakery per say. I shared with her about the lovely European type of bakeries we have in Ohio and about the Westside Market also. From that she showed me some recent birthday cakes she made for people and how she is looking for a lemon type of recipe to make for an upcoming birthday she wants to bake for. I shared how I often made the Philadelphia Cream Cheese cheesecake for my mom that loved lemon desserts. I even shared how I would switch out limes for lemons in the recipe. Let me share that with you all in case you want to bring a little sunshine to your day. May I suggest not only baking this but then sharing it with others. Spread that sunshine around okay. If you have Jesus in your heart the son of God is in your life, so take that Sonshine and be sunshine in another's life. Those are my words of wisdom for today. My plan is to make stuffed peppers with red, yellow and orange peppers today to share with a neighbor along with homemade mashed potatoes and what about steamed green beans or carrots too. What do you think? I actually did some prep work for making them yesterday. I cleaned, removed the seeds and cut in half lengthwise the peppers, parboiled the rice for the beef filling and chopped onions and got a bit of fresh parsley from my herb garden that has made it through the snowstorm, so I can chop it up and add to the meat filling.

You can tell if a recipe is a tried and true recipe by the condition of the recipe. Obviously by the condition of this recipe page it has been made over and over again. Do you agree.