“Time is the longest distance between two places.”
Today’s weather is back to normal: cold and rainy. Ugly comes to mind. I’m happy to be inside, in my warm house. Yesterday I went to the hardware store. There were tables in front to pick up orders. I bought those tubs I’ve wanted and some cement clue. I have to attach the handle of Henry’s coffee cup.
I have a list. The dust is back and the laundry pile is so high it’s scary. I also have those tubs to fill, and I need to vacuum the cat’s room. The floor is so gritty that if we had sun, I’d lay out my towel and get some color. I am winter pasty white, my suggestion for the newest Crayola color.
Staying inside is not a big deal for me, but I’m getting loopy. I miss people. I’m talking to Henry far too much, so much that he avoids me and naps upstairs.
All this empty time needs to be filled. I watch parts of movies then I get bored. I clean stuff, weird stuff, like under the stove burners, the hearth and any surface my sweatshirt can reach. I go through catalogs and have even ordered a few Christmas presents. Now I need to catalog the gifts.
I bought enough bananas for banana bread. Now I just have to wait until they are brown and squishy.
When I was a kid, summers always got too long. By late August, I was counting the days until school started. Today the count is 135 until the day after Labor Day when schools around here start.
When I was in Ghana, I bought my food every three days at the market. I’d buy beef, eggs, fruit, bread, yams, plantain, tomatoes, garden eggs and when they were in season FraFra potatoes. I’d load all of that into my woven shepherd’s bag which always stretched to hold whatever I put in it. It got pretty heavy.
I ate the same thing just about every day. In the morning it was coffee, two eggs over easy and toast. In the afternoon, it was always cut up fruit: oranges, pineapple, bananas and sometimes mango and pawpaw. The evening meal was mashed yam and beef in some kind of sauce, often tomato. There was never dessert though we did sometimes buy Coke and a Cadbury bar as treats for later in the evening. We bought them at the DPW store on the next street from my school. The Coke was cold.
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April 26, 2020 at 2:56 pm
I looked up FraFra potatoes. Do they taste anything like potatoes or sweet potatoes?
April 26, 2020 at 3:09 pm
They are small like the small Yukon Gold potatoes, and they have their own taste. I love them, but they were only available for a month or so and only in my area as that’s where the FraFras live. When I was there in 2016, I was so excited as September is when FraFra potatoes hit the local markets. We had them for dinner and for lunch.
April 26, 2020 at 5:11 pm
Hi Kat,
Today is beautiful with plenty of sunshine and temperatures in the mid 80s. Today’s tour from inside the car was to Sherman and Dennison Texas. Both towns are close together and located just south of the Red River that separates us from Oklahoma. That’s about 60 miles north of Dallas. Dennison is the birthplace of Dewight D. Eisenhower. His little home and museum are both closed but we took a photo of the outside.
The governor of Oklahoma hasn’t ordered social separation but both Indian Casinos across the River are closed. Texas is too Baptist to allow casino gambling within its borders. Will Rogers used to say that all the treaties between the white man and the Indians always read that this was their land as long as the sun would shine, the wind would blow and the rivers will flow. Unfortunately, all the land they received the sun always shined, the wind always blew and the rivers never flowed. 😉 Now all the Indian reservations are getting their revenge through fleecing the white man through gambling. 🙂
I successfully applied for unemployment benefits yesterday online. Filling out the application was a career in itself. It took me almost two hours including the online resume that’s required. I have no idea if I qualify being furloughed nor how much money I will receive and was something to do.
April 26, 2020 at 8:19 pm
Hi Bob,
We had a thunder storm. I noticed the lightning first but wasn’t quite sure I saw it. The thunder I heard. Henry just slept through it.
60 miles roundtrip sounds like a great ride, long enough without being too long. I didn’t realize Ike’s birthplace had a museum. I knew his library is in Kansas. I did see his home in Gettysburg. That’s where he lived after he left the White House.
Isn’t Oklahoma one of the states which is opening more? We haven’t any idea here in Massachusetts when the final opening will be. We’re still on May 4th but I doubt it.
Well Done! Maneuvering the pages of government forms take grata courage!
April 26, 2020 at 8:39 pm
Ike, was born in Dennison which is almost Oklahoma and he was raised in Kansas. Yes, Oklahoma is one State along with Arkansas that never ordered social distancing. I think Georgia will be the canary in the cage for Covid-19 restrictions being relaxed. I read this morning that the Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido is having a rebound of cases after loosening the restrictions.
April 26, 2020 at 8:42 pm
I also heard there was another city in China with a recent outbreak. I knew there were stupid people. I just didn’t know how many.