Hydrangeas, Helicopters & Bleu Cheese

How's that for a post title, huh?!? Well, it pretty much sums up me and the Hub's weekend... 

Friday was very low-key. In fact, the most momentous part of our evening was our move from the front porch to the back porch to catch the sunset and enjoy our books by the evening's last rays of light.

Saturday was almost as relaxing - we slept in late, grabbed lunch out, picked up some pine straw for the yard and ran to the market to pick up something for dinner. When we got back home, the Hubs worked to trim back all of the bushes in our front yard while I took care of the annual hydrangea trim. 

While visiting my parents the other weekend, they reminded us that we needed to cut back the row of hydrangea bushes we planted last year, to help them grow back even bigger and stronger next year. Unfortunately, this met cutting off all of the lovely end-of-summer hydrangea flowers. Of course, I gathered them all up and created SIX beautiful new arrangements, which are spread out all over our house.

 After all of that yard work, we caught some college football and I started dinner. Which, was fantastic, if I do say so myself :-) Our local supermarket had a great sale on Porterhouse steaks - and the Hubs cannot pass up a good steak - so, that's what we had. Along with the most delish wedge salad, complete with homemade blue cheese dressing. Here's my recipe for the perfect adornment to a nice, cool crisp salad {our was an iceberg wedge topped with fresh cherry tomatoes, crumbled bacon and cucumbers):

Blue Cheese Dressing

5 oz. crumbled blue cheese
1/3 cup sour cream
1/3 cup mayonaise
2 tbsp. buttermilk
1 tbsp. tarragon vinnegar
Pinch garlic powder
Lemon juice (from 1/2 med. size lemon)
Dash Worcestershire sauce
Dash Tobassco 
Fresh cracked pepper & kosher salt


Mash the blue cheese up a bit in the bottom of a small mixing bowl. Add the remaining ingredients, stir together until well-incorporated and then refrigerate until ready to serve.

Max, our pup, also enjoyed our Porterhouse steak meal. Mostly because he was able to enjoy a huge bone.

Until it got the best of him...

That bone defeated poor, little Max, ha!

After dinner, we were in the mood for a movie - unfortunately there wasn't a great selection on the movie channels. We ended up catching "A Life Less Ordinary" on the Sundance channel. Overall, an odd flick with spectacular cinematography and a great soundtrack.

Our wonderful weekend ended on Sunday with lemon-scented blueberry pancakes (I put the blueberries in the pancakes, as opposed to making the blueberry syrup in this recipe), a few chores, a birthday dinner out with friends and the Hub's favorite new toy - a flying gyro helicopter.

Here's to the start of fall, football season and many more weekends, just like the last! Hope you all had lovely weekends as well :-)