Post Valentine Apocalypse

  The Love His Heart supper I made for my sweetie on V Day.  I had to work, but made it and had it all ready for his supper when he got home.  Made him a beautiful card and la-la-la.  Soba noodles dressed in a sesame ginger dressing, beets (home canned), carrots and broccoli -steamed. Chives and sesame seeds on the noodles.  It was double yummy!

   He showered me with 3 different kinds of licorice and a card.  No chocolate. NO CHOCOLATE !!!!!!!

 What??????  lol

  On Friday, which is our regular "date night", we are going to make the trip 25 miles north and try out a new Japanese restaurant called Sakura.  That will be our VD celebration.  Dinner and possibly a movie, if I feel like I can make it through without too much coughing.  I'm still hacking away...nothing like it was...just enough to be a pain in the butt.

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   I am off the next 2 days thank goodness. Things have gotten almost surreal at MissB's, as she is always on her way to go "home"  to the house of her childhood. She is seeing people that aren't there and having conversations with them. Tonight she wanted me to get the buggy around front so I could take her to the store. It's tough.They are starting her on an Altzheimer's medication, hoping that will bring her back. Maybe it will and maybe it won't.  A curious and tragic disease, Altzheimers. 

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  No big plans really for the day off...laundry. And housekeeping. It's been snowy and now raining here, so you can't even tell that I mopped 2 days ago.  sigh... The dogs track in so much mud it's unreal. Bless their hearts.  I am just going to relish the opportunity I have to not have to be anywhere at any time and can do whatever I want. woohoo.

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    The temps are back up in the high forties and low fifties again. Ay Carumba. This is just too weird. Man I want to plant something!!!!   My seeds came from Baker Creek...I ordered quinoa and edamame from them. I think we'll put the edamame back in the front garden this year, where we planted it 2 years ago. The deer never came near it, because our dogs are out front mostly. We had a magnificent crop there.I told the Irishman I was having daydreams about tearing up more lawn for beds and he told me to slow down a little. LOL  Stay tuned to see what happens....lol

   My son has expressed an interest in growing this year and even canning. He dries lots of things, but hasn't gotten into it whole hog yet. This might be his year...(my fingers are crossed).

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  The rain is about to put me to sleep, so I guess I'll start moseying off that direction. I have Vicks vaporub on my chest (helps with the coughing) and I might just take an Alka-seltzer cough and cold..because it has aspirin in it and really does help the coughing.  I'm a little bruised, as I fell in the kitchen yesterday evening. It's a ludicrous story and I won't bore you with it...but though I didn't fall FAR, I fell very HARD...and my knee hurts and my shoulder hurts and back.  The pain reliever in that fizzy stuff seems to help.

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   Okay. Here's wishing you all sweet dreams and healthy days. Asking for prayers for my friend Linda who is off to have some surgical re-arranging done on Friday and needs as many good vibrations sent her way as we can summon. Be grateful, y'all, for your good health and happiness. It is a fragile thing this time of our lives and needs to be attended to with all the gusto we have.

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  Here is one of my favorite Rumi poems....

     Be crumbled,

 So wildflowers will come up where you are.

     You have been stony for too many years.

Try something different.

     Surrender.

Namaste.

Middlin' Monday

It was one of THOSE days around the old homestead. Up at 5 to whisk that darling boy off to work so I could keep the car. I needed to get some groceries, veggies mainly, for juicing. And critter chow. I got home and did a few little things outside while it was still cool enough to breathe. (It was already 80 degrees by 8 AM !!!) You could feel the humidity rising. Then I hustled myself indoors and started on some things like my grocery list, the laundry, the catboxes, the food bowls 2 for dogs, water and food...and 2 for cats water and food... and read some emails and the like while I waited for it to be late enough for the store to open. Then I was off to Edwardsville, where the fun places like Aldi's and Home Depot and Culvers are found. Because I was out of juice for my normal breakfast (hence having to get the veggies), I just had coffee. BY the time I was out of the grocery store, I was starving and feeling a little goofy, so I decided a nice Culver's Butterburger was just the ticket. There just happened to be one right by the Home Depot. (Are you following my logic here??...sheesh....) I have been doing rather well at cleaning up this toxic waste dump of a life of mine, and so I'm going to have a freaking BUTTERBURGER for breakfast!!!!!!!!!!!!! Man, was it ever good. We don't eat red meat at home anymore, but do occasionally have a burger or a nice steak out...rarely more than once every couple of months though. I polished that baby off (in my defense I did get the small regular burger...) and felt so good I went to Home Depot and bought some gorgeous coneflowers , 2 pink ones and 2 white ones. I'm trying to decide the best place to plant them...have some ideas and I'll photograph them tomorrow so y'all can have a look see...

Anyway, then I came home and finished the laundry, made about 7 quarts of juice, cleaned up all that mess and started supper. Before I could click my heels 3 times, it was time to get that darling boy from work. We had a lovely supper of apple glazed pork (ribs) . It's a great recipe I got from a low carb cookbook, and I jazz it up some and it's to die for. Add a little corn on the cob and some greens and VOILA! it's a meal.

Tonight we went through a box of old cassettes that has been in the garage forever (every garage we've had!) lol There are lots of speaker tapes and the Big Book on tape, as well as lots of music, some wonderful (Uncle Bonsai. Romanovsky and Phillips.) Some classic (Ray Charles, Tina Turner) Some awesome (Natalie Merchant. Indigo Girls). We played some of the more fun stuff (Uncle Bonsai). If you have never heard them, you need to find them and listen...they're freaking hysterical and wayyyy talented.

Now, everyone's asleep and the dishes are done and the lunch is made and the catboxes are cleaned[again] and the critters are watered and fed. The kittens have been hell on wheels all day today, so it's a nice change for them to be sleeping, so cute and innocent.

All's well in the world...I have a box of Good&Plenty to keep me company through the long night. (Black Licorice is my downfall...I love this stuff. I especially like the kookaburra soft black licorice and I can't find it anywhere anymore. Good&Plenty is the second best. Don't try to tell me anything about red licorice--Pfffftttt! ) LOL

A good productive day. Wearing a brace on my knee and cannot decide if it's helping or not. The pain is getting bad, and I guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and make a doctors appointment. Fell down the stairs 10 years ago and had an arthroscopy to repair the torn miniscus. They said it would be good for 10 years...and here we are. Sigh...I'm just getting the colonoscopy paid off!! :~0

Alrighty then...back to my emails and readings. My whole day was a study in gratitude....'Nuff said!


Namaste.