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My blog was filled up. I'm too lazy to clean it out. So I started a new one. |
| My very kind neighbor just gave me a big box of organic kale from her garden. I trimmed it up, washed off the bugs and dirt, picked off the flower buds and cooked it until it was about 1/4 the size. I only used a pinch of salt. Unfortunately, it was beginning to get old, therefore the flowers, and some of the stems, even though small, remained very tough. It's still delicious. You just have to pull the pieces that look as stiff as uncooked spaghetti off your plate. I always worry that I missed a bug or two, but then again, they cook apart. That might be added protein. I'll fix some Southern spoon bread to go with it. I was shocked at the grocery store last week to discover the shelves of flour, all kinds, were bare. All the yellow cornmeal was gone, too, which is what I wanted. They had white cornmeal, so I got one. My spoon bread will be light colored, but will still be good. Thanks, neighbor, for sharing your garden with me. |
| I have to say it's easier to keep the house straight when the children don't visit on the weekend. Is the trade-off worth it? I like having just routine clean-up instead of massive scrubbing and moving furniture to pick up candy and chips and little toys that are hiding from me. But I miss them. I think about them a lot. They love to dig, so I think of them when I'm trying to fill the wheelbarrow with mulch from the big pile. They could be helping me load that wheelbarrow and emptying it! Of course, that's only a few minutes and still won't stop them from taking the knickknacks off the shelves and carrying them outdoors. Oh, yeah. I haven't picked up odds and ends, tools, etc., out in the far ends of the yard. I haven't been reading more than usual. I haven't written more. I have reviewed a little more. So what am I doing with my time? I guess watching the news. We aren't going anywhere in the car, so I'm not losing time driving anywhere. Or using gas. But I am fixing balanced, nutritional meals, maybe more than usual. I guess I want more productivity. I want to see the results of no company and no errands, but it feels stagnant. I probably am surfing the Net more. Or watching more movies, old ones. We could be doing this a few more months. Maybe I'll do something creative before we're out and about again. |
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I marvel at the things I'll be able to tell my grandkids about someday. Life is accelerating - or maybe it just feels that way!
I completely sympathize with your desire to declutter. I have more stuff than you can shake a stick at that didn't actually belong to just my wife or myself throughout the house.