“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Oh! What a beautiful morning, a perfect fall morning. The sun is bright. The sky is blue and cloudless. It is in the low 50’s, a chill leftover from last night, but it will get warmer, even shirt sleeve warm.
When I was a kid, I often ate oatmeal on cold mornings. My mother was insulating us for the walk to school. She always added sugar and milk to the oatmeal. Sugar makes everything tasty, even lumpy oatmeal. I can’t remember the last time I had oatmeal. I know it is now instant and has no lumps. Too bad, I always thought lumps gave oatmeal personality.
When I was in Ghana, I loved the mornings. Even in the dry, hottest time of the year, the early mornings were comfortable. I had two eggs and two pieces of toast every morning for breakfast. The eggs were fried in groundnut, peanut, oil and were delicious. My stove seldom had gas so meals were cooked over a small, round charcoal burner. The bread leaned against the hot part of the stove for toasting. In Accra, I had bought a giant stein like mug for coffee. I had a cup before breakfast and one during breakfast. I’d have one more cup at the end of my first couple of classes. I used to sit on my small front porch to drink the first cup. I’d greet the kids cutting across school grounds to the elementary school just outside my school’s gates. They’d stop, salute and say, “Good morning, sir. How are you?” They were learning English and had started with memorizing greetings. I lived on the school compound so after breakfast I’d walk from my house to the classroom block. That walk never felt commonplace.
Yesterday I brought my flamingo inside the house off the deck. It is a fall ritual. The flamingo has several outfits. She is now decked in a black robe with a purple lining and a witch’s cap with pumpkins on it and hanging bright lime hair now draped around her head and beak. She is ready for Halloween.
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October 11, 2024 at 3:43 pm
Hi Kat,
Another partly cloudy day with a high predicted to reach only 89°.
I never liked cooked cereal of any kind. I especially disliked oatmeal. Lumpy and flavorless.
My favorite breakfast is eggs, fried over easy, bacon, white toast, and hash browned potatoes. I also like home fried potatoes. To my way of thinking, salt, sugar, and saturated fats are the three most important ingredients. 🙂 Everything tastes better when processed with all or any of those three things. I have a natural sweet tooth.
The late former fitness guru, Jack LaLanne, when asked what’s one thing that you can say is the biggest contributor to good health, he replied, “If you put something in your mouth and it tastes good, then spit it out”. I think that when you’re lying on your deathbed, will you say to yourself, “If I only hadn’t eaten those donuts would I have a few more hours of life? Bring on the donuts. 🙂
Do you also have a lawn jockey, or a lawn Gnome to go with the flamingo?
October 11, 2024 at 7:45 pm
Hi Bob,
It stayed in the low 60’s today. Tomorrow is supposed to have a high of 68°. I figure it will be a perfect day for a ride.
Today’s oatmeal is never lumpy. It even comes in flavors. The old time oatmeal we had as kids needed to be doctored to taste good. Sugar cures anything, almost anything.
I like home fries. When I bake potatoes, I often bake extra so I can make home fries. I like them far more than hash browns.
The last thing I would do is spit out what tastes good. I think life needs to be filled with the good stuff. This is the only life we have so it should be enjoyed.
October 12, 2024 at 12:40 am
Obviously, we agree on your last sentence. 🙂
October 12, 2024 at 6:55 pm
I never thought otherwise!!!!!