Song of the day: “Blame it on me” by George Ezra. Cute
little song, even though I like “Budapest” better.
Approaching onto my birthday, yep, less than a day and I’ll
be (brace yourselves) thirty six. Oh. My. Gawd!!! My, my. Does time fly. To
celebrate the occasion a friend and I are going for a hike up on the mountain,
and I have a tentative plan to take Knight II along, but it remains to be see
whether I can take him or not. He has not been well lately, his feet troubling
him to the point that I’ve had to start him on antibiotics once again. I hate
putting him on antibiotics, in particular since I know that they are only a
temporary solution, but then I remind myself that he is old already, and that
any week, or month that the nasty things can give him is a good thing. For a
while there, I feared he’d die, these past couple of weeks. Now he’s doing well
enough under the circumstances.
If he can’t go along on the walk tomorrow, I’m thinking of
Tadaika instead. Our fat girl needs the exercise for sure.
So what’s been going over here. Plenty, yet completely insignificant
things with which’s highlights I’ll bore you.
First off, I made a rather wonderful strawberry/physalis/kiwi
yogurt cake yesterday, but something was wrong with the gelatin I used, meaning
that it didn’t set during the night in the fridge, much to my regret, in
particular since the taste worked out so well. So rather than eating that cake,
we were forced to make due with semi-smoothies. A bothersome task that, but we
suffer through it. Hah.
So to make up for that little error, I made a couple of
delicious apple pies today. Yay. They worked out awesome. Because I was short
on apples, I added dried apricot pieces, raisins, coconut shavings and some
almonds, which made for a sumptuous combination. Spent about four hours in the
kitchen today. Not only for the pies, but also for patties (want to take some
on the hike tomorrow) and a rather wonderful mix of red beets with sweet
potatoes. I’m thinking of adding the latter to the food blog.
Which reminds me, the food blog isn’t doing bad, all things
considered. Am rapidly approaching the triple digits for readers over there.
Makes me curious if any of the recipes have been tried, and what they thought
of it. Ah well, until someone posts there, we can only guess, right?
Spent a nice afternoon writing down some recipes, by the
way, including a rather nice stir fry I experimented with during yesterday’s
lunch. An explosion of taste, I tell you. Ah well. It was fun to try something
different for a change, and since big brother had gorged himself on the left
over macaroni from yesterday, I didn’t have much of a choice.
Oh, oh, we had this rather splendid idea of a pasta
restaurant the other day. Can you imagine. I had this buffet image of a whole
array of pastas with in front of it a massive selection of veggie sauces. My
mouth watered at the idea, I tell ya. The marvelous thing about it is that you
can probably have folks come in for 5 bucks per person and still make a nice
little profit. Ah well. Thoughts like that are fleeting. Hah.
Spent a couple of afternoons working on both cars. First the
Trooper, since it’s got carpet inside and therefore needed to be vacuumed. Then
the Land Rover out of which we’ve started taking out the first excess bits and
pieces in preparation of the pimping we’re planning. Quite a bit will have to
be done, but it should be nice challenge.
Set up a new bed for grandpa. Like for me, his corner of the
porch is small too, so he decided for a single rather than a queen. Luckily we
had the supplies we needed to set one up with four drawers underneath, which
should be handy for him. He’s a bit wary of there being too little space with
his dogs, but like mine, they’ll get used to it.
Had some good moments working on cutting dog food. Figured
that I might as well give Grandpa some free time, so there was bread to cut,
veggies…everything the dogs need, except for the meat, because I really dislike
the smell and feel of meat early in the morning.
Had some splendid workouts these past couple of weeks. Have
been sore maybe seventy percent of the time, which tells me that I’ve been
doing something right. Did the kicks, the punches, the stretches and even some
jogging, so I’ve been a good Sammie. Even had meat a couple times. Yay.
Had a short term job last week, where we painted and
furnished a shop in town. A friend recommended us, and I think we did a good
job. Took a full day, mind you. First emptying it, filling up holes in the
walls, then spending about three hours painting everything while big brother
worked in the old store putting together shelving units with mirrors. The rest
of the day was spent setting up the units, counter and cleanup, all of it in a
single stretch (skipped lunch) because we had to be at the garage before 6 PM.
Added to that we helped a friend move house. Went from all
over in Calahonda to a spot right at the bottom of our mountain, so going over
every now and then will be way easier…first she needs to get settled, though,
and will need a hand every now and then getting everything in the new apartment
in order.
Had a bad cold once I got back from the UK, meaning I was a
bit under the weather, but in the days that passed I had some naps…heck I even
had a couple of three hour naps, which were wonderful…my dogs fully agreed with
them too, crawling under the blankets with me because the temps outside have a
tad nippy. Did have a lot of sunshine, too, though, which is grand.
As to the rest…there is of course the normal stuff. Laundry,
as always. Cleaning up, cooking dinner, changing Knight II’s bandages every
day, going to town and getting groceries, picking up some donations…for some
reason the days are extremely full.
Which brings us to the end of today…well, it’s tomorrow already,
so technically that makes it my B-Day, doesn’t it? Gotta go. Got an early
morning planned tomorrow.
