More Zany Brain

I never know what my more-or-less asleep brain is going to come up with.

One morning, it was a young mother in her kitchen.

She was pureeing vegetables then adding some type of thickener–maybe arrowroot.

Then she put that into candy molds.

One set of carrots, one set of celery, and I don’t know what else.

Somehow those firmed up and she popped them out of the molds.

She was making treats for her kids.

Who, apparently, think they are candy.

Tricky mom.

TTYL,

Linda

Lesson learned

I was with Dave’s family at a small, downhill ski facility.

As I approached the rope tow, I saw people sprawled in a line up the hill.

Later I learned what happed when Carl said, ”I learned something today.

If you fall, don’t twang the rope.

What rope do you need to carefully let go of?

TTYL,

Linda

Minimalist Sculptor

I don’t know where I read it or who said it but it went something like this:

Viewer: How do you decide what to do with such a huge block of marble?

Sculptor: I look at it until I see what it wants to be then I remove everything that’s not that.

That’s what minimalists do.

We look at what our life wants to be then we remove everything that isn’t that.

TTYL,

Linda

Decluttering my wedding gown

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Many years ago, when it became clear our daughter was going to grow way too tall to ever wear my wedding gown, I donated it to a church run second-hand store.

The store manager thought it was way too good to simply add it to inventory.

So she took a photo of it and posted it on the store’s bulletin board.

A young woman admired the photo. The store manager offered to take her home to try it on.

It fit perfectly and it was the right season for it. (Long skirt, long sleeve, white velvet material.)

Everyone went home happy.

Wasn’t that much better than leaving it in a box in storage until it turned yellow?

TTYL,

Linda

Carnivore Diet

No, I am not eating only meat. But, I know people who are. It sounded too restrictive to me since you only eat animal products such as meat, fish, poultry, eggs, and dairy.

But then I started thinking more about it.

Meat: beef, pork, lamb, rabbit, venison, bison

Fish: fresh water fish, salt water fish, shell fish

Poultry: chicken, turkey, Cornish hen, pigeon

Eggs: baked, boiled, fried

Dairy: hard and soft cheese, cream cheese, yogurt, sour cream, milk, cream

Fats: lard, tallow, butter, ghee

How many ways do you think you could find to mix and match those?

Mozzarella cheese stuffed meatballs?

Fish filet fried in seasoned butter?

Hamburger patty with bacon and an egg on top?

Turduken?

Lamb chop topped with cream cheese?

Fried ham and eggs?

Beef stroganoff?

Crustless shrimp quiche?

Swedish meatballs?

Steak topped with herb butter?

Salmon cake?

Burger patty with cheddar cheese?

Scotch eggs?

Maybe it wouldn’t be so boring after all.

TTYL,

Linda