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An unexpected Texas
treat—waking up this morning to a cloudy, rainy world with fairly moderate
temperatures. It even smells like rain. Heavenly!
I’ve spent the
morning trying to bring order to my world—specifically to move back into my bedroom,
now that the floor is done. It’s still a work in progress, so I’m not showing
pictures. Waiting for some muscle from the house to do things that I can’t and
that kind of hold up the process.
Last night
Christian enlisted Jacob and two buddies to carry bags of things back out to
the cottage. Jacob lay down on my bed and, as I’ve asked him not to, fooled
with the bed position. He got the foot of the mattress into its highest
position—and stuck. It took at least fifteen minutes of Christian working with
the remote and me envisioning another night on the couch to get to the point
where the remote told us, ”the bed is flattening.” Christian told me firmly, “Don’t
touch anything!” I told Jacob just as firmly that I had dire consequences in
mind for him. His response? “You should sleep on it that way. It’s comfortable.”
Truth be told,
while I’d said I was okay on the couch, I was really glad to sleep in my bed
last night. Slept soundly and an hour later than I ever do. Slow start but I
began to unload sacks of things I’d taken out of my drawers—treasures such as
some jewelry I had forgotten I had, small jewelry boxes that have significance
for me—lovely hand-carved small box a boy gave me in grade school and ruined by
impressing my initials in the top with a lead pencil, my mother’s jewelry box,
that small oil painting with a rip that I never got repaired. On the mundane
side—a whole sack of socks, my winter sweatpants, and odds and ends of gift wrapping
paper.
Lovely break from
my topsy-turvy world last night—dinner with friend Carol at Café Modern. We had
a table by the window and the water, which I always love. I’d looked up the
current menu online and wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about it, but to my delight
it had nothing to do with the menu we were given when seated. I chose scallops
with veggies—squash, sugared carrots, micro planed cilantro, ad tiny bits of
radish. It was all wonderful except for the bed of edamame hummus on which it
sat. I am not an edamame fan! Tried this, in the interest of trying all new things
and thinking maybe it would be better in hummus form--still didn’t like it. Blueberry
tart for dessert. Great meal.
Watching the Food
Network with half an eye this morning and am interested that the chef (don’t
know who she is) creates zucchini boas of uncooked zucchini. I always parboil
them first and they tend to fall apart Will try this next. Stuffed zucchini is
a summertime treat, though I can’t convince my family. Another thing this chef does: separates whites and yoks when frying eggs--starts the whites first and then carefully places the yolk on the partially cooked whites. I think it would give you nice, crisp whites.
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