“I once went to a restaurant and ordered a chicken salad sandwich and an egg salad sandwich to see which would come first.”
Warmth is coming but not today. I just have to be patient until tomorrow when it will reach at least 42˚. That’s tanning weather. Maybe the snow on the deck will melt by then, but I’m not confident. It is a hard, crusty snow.
If I could pick things to learn, I’d start with a musical instrument. I’m thinking ukulele. I’d get to wear a Hawaiian shirt, a straw hat and a lei. I wouldn’t sing along. The nun I had in the third grade made me too embarrassed to sing in front of people. The next thing for me to learn is cake decorating, using all the tips of the frosting bag to make magnificently frosted cakes over which people would ooh and ahh. I’m thinking I can start slowly with the star tip and do borders. If that doesn’t work, I can just turn the border into a straight line. I’ll call that plan b. I guess it would be easier to start decorating on paper first but that’s no fun. I wouldn’t get to eat and share all my mistakes.
I wish I knew a foreign language. I have words in Spanish, French and Hausa but sentences are a bit beyond me. I string three or so words together and hope I make sense. Charades too work well enough, but the one problem I usually seem to have is what in the heck am I eating. Once I was a clucking chicken and a mooing cow. The waiter laughed at me, but he mooed back so I knew it was beef under all that gravy.
Yesterday I stayed home, didn’t even get dressed. I read my library book a good portion of the day. I had crackers and cheese for a late lunch and eggs for dinner. They are my favorite fall back meal. I like they have so many configurations: hard boiled, soft-boiled, fried, poached or dropped eggs on toast as my mother always called them, scrambled and in an omelet with cheese, ham and on and on. I’ve had chicken eggs, goose eggs and Guinea fowl eggs. I have no preference. I like them all, mostly over easy.
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March 8, 2019 at 7:28 pm
Hi Kat,
I’m not a big fan of eggs. I do like eggs fried over easy because I enjoy dipping my toast into the yokes. A rasher of bacon on the side is required. This morning I had a bacon breakfast taco. Scrambled eggs are fine with enough bacon and salsa wrapped up in a taco. I would rather go hungry than eat egg salad. When I was teenager I rode a Greyhound bus from El Paso Texas to Dallas. During that 10 hour trip I ate an egg salad sandwich purchased a bus stop in Snyder which gave me a case of food poisoning. The rest of the trip was miserable and left egg salad off my food list all these years. 😦 I do like deviled eggs occasionally for some weird reason.
My entire family has no ability to carry a tune. We all sing in the key of Q minor. 🙂 My son is an excellent guitar player and has the only musical talent in our family. He must have inherited that talent from his mother who played the violin in school. I can play the iPad or the stereo. 🙂
Today we hit a high of 79 degrees from a low on Wednesday morning of 27. Tomorrow morning a Pacific cool front will bring rain clearing by noon and warming up again.
March 8, 2019 at 10:14 pm
Hi Bob,
I love eggs over easy because, like you, I enjoy dipping my toast in the yoke. I usually get two eggs and two pieces of toast: one for each egg. I have bacon more than not, but I’m okay with sausage or ham. Egg salad has a weird consistency which makes it unappealing to me. I love deviled eggs.
My parents and one of my sisters have/had excellent voices. My sister sang in musicals in high school and a chorus when she was much older. None of us play a musical instrument. I think when we were small, my parents couldn’t afford the lessons or the instruments. Many of my mother’s siblings also had wonderful voices. At parties, they all get together and sing.
Wow, 79˚! that’s July here.
March 8, 2019 at 9:19 pm
I-can’t-sing choirs are spreading all over, too many people were told they can’t sing and now they just do it and have fun.
The forsythia in the garden started to flower and the magnolia won’t take long. Too early, frost may come.
Woman’s Day today, I was too lazy to join the rally downtown.
March 8, 2019 at 10:05 pm
Birgit,
You’re killing me with all these flowers in your garden. I’m happy with an inch of green peering out of the ground.
Giving I can’t carry a tune, I can’t imagine an entire chorus of me’s. It would be a cacophony.
March 9, 2019 at 12:13 am
Cold nights and chilly days here for a couple of days and after that they say it’s going to be warmer but I don’t trust them. Snowed here again yesterday and some of it is still on the ground.
It would be fun to learn another language or perhaps relearn one of those I’ve studied 🙂 I did want to learn Italian in school but they didn’t have any teacher who could speak it so perhaps Italian would be the one to start with. Or perhaps learn how to fix things here at home without fearing that it will be much more expensive in the long run than to get someone who works with it in the first place 🙂 🙂
I’ll drive to Falköping today to order the new medicine for Nova because I’m pretty sure they don’t have it in stock. It’ll rain and snow later today so we better take a longer walk as long as nothing is falling from the sky.
Have a great day!
Christer.
March 9, 2019 at 7:39 pm
Christer,
We’ll have warm days through Monday. Warm is, of course, relative. Around here it means the 40’s, pleasant enough if there isn’t a wind. This time of year on the cape is just as you described there: cold nights and chilly days.
I also wish I were handy. I’ve seen some projects which look easy, but I haven’t the talent or the tools. Americans are the worst at foreign languages. In most countries people speak a couple of languages. Look at you and Birgit with English. It is a bit embarrassing.
Luckily my vet has had most of the medicines I’ve needed. I did send away for Fern’s as I was able to have it made into a rub so I didn’t have to force pills down her throat. Cats are the worst. Henry is easy to give pills to, easiest dog I’ve ever had.
Have a great day!
March 10, 2019 at 12:23 am
Our vets, no matter how big the vet station or hospital is, don’t have any pills, we must go to the pharmacy to get them.
March 10, 2019 at 10:59 pm
Our vets keep several animal medicines on hand. The ones that humans also take, like thyroid pills, are at the pharmacy.