Walt has been working like a dog in the back yard, trying to
clear away shrubbery so the new fence can go up, working with the tree folks
to came out to find out why your big tree had decided to drop a branch and
leave one on the verge of dropping, and just cleaning up the yard in
general. Each night he comes in, dripping with sweat, his shirt
drenched.
Ned put the finishing touches on my office, moving all the
slides to the top shelf and all the scrapbooks up on the shelves.
He also had made this great shelf unit for my desk.
He also had made this great shelf unit for my desk.
He also moved all the cords on the floor up to the wall, so
the dogs, who have made the space under my desk as their beds, won't unplug
anything.
The guy has thought of everything.
So even though I myself made countless trips back and forth
from the living room to the office (about 30 steps each way...whew!)
moving more stuff in, I had no reason to be sweating and exhausted by the
time I put dinner on the table.
This was a delicious dinner, which I did not expect it to
be. One of the things I love about Blue Apron is eating foods I have
never eaten before, which I expect to hate and then discovering that it's
really quite good.
This was crispy cod with squash. The cod is breaded
and fried and then topped with a salad of arugala mixed with quinoa and
toasted almonds. The whole thing sits on a bed of marinated summer
squash, sliced and then added to vinegar, dijon, garic, and olive oil.
After you take the squash out of the dressing, you then put the rest on the
arugula salad.
It was delicious.
But, as always, I was dripping sweat before the dinner got
on the table, huge drops of sweat rolling into my eyes and temporarily
blinding me, at least for reading the recipe.
The problem with Blue Apron dinners is all the prep
work...which is, of course, what makes them so good. By the time I
have peeled and chopped and tried to cook things so that they all come out
at the same time, I sometimes long for my reliable "Joe Special" which is
just hamburger cooked with spinach and egg...one stop shoppping.
However, I am learning how best to do the Blue Apron dinners, which is to
take breaks. That may sound silly. The work involved isn't all
that much, but when I start sweating and my back aching, I just have to walk
away and sit down for a few minutes....and I'm hoping that all these healthy
meals are gradually making me more able to handle the work of putting them
together!
I also shouldn't feel bad about how many trips I made back
and forth carrying stuff to put away. After all I had an almost 2 hour
rest while I visited with my friend Cindy. Of course my friend Cindy
is also my dentist and most of those 2 hours were spent with her hands in my
mouth, but I honestly look on my trips to the dentist as restful
visits. We get caught up on our lives, I get to vent about my mother, I hear
about her trips to the Netherlands to visit her father-in-law, who also has
dementia. We compare what our kids are doing. She was filling 3 small
cavities and I left there looking like I had a permanent sneer from all the
numbing, but all the numbing means zero pain and only minor discomfort, so I
don't mind.
The end is in sight as far as my office is concerned.
I am going to be left witha lot of "miscellaneous sundries" that have
no place...and had no place in the old office...and I'm going to sese how
many of those I can actually throw away.
But I can see the living room again and that is a nice
thing.
And just to get political for a minute, in this day and age
how does ANY politician think they can get away with ANYTHING when there are
cell phones and fact checkers behind every corner. What was the Trump
machine tinking of allowing Melania Trump to plagiarize. Paul Manafort,
campaign chairman, denied allegations that Melania Trump plagiarized a
Michelle Obama speech on the first night of the Republican National
Convention, calling the accusation "just really absurd."
But you can play the speeches side by side and they are
word for word identical in a big spot. You think I'm going to
believe that Melania (who says she wrote thes peech herself--anybody believe
that?) just channeled Michele Obama and somehow came up with the identical
words? Give me a break! American people aren't that stupid....or
are they? These days I don't know any more.
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