Things & Stuff
Today I am overwhelmed with all the things. I feel blessed with so many opportunities and new beginnings, but they have all come at once and I feel like I’m drowning. Events and partnerships, new gigs, new books, new travel, new expectations. So much for my little brain to hold. Tonight I shall do crosswords and drink more wine. Tomorrow I shall begin to organize this little life of mine.
In other news, this song is in my head.♥
Today I got my first (temporary) crown. It’s been so long since I’ve had any type of filling or anesthesia for dental stuff that I pretty much freaked out. I was so nervous, so anxious. My dentist rocks though, and I listened to Frank Sinatra and it was all over pretty quickly.
Last night we watched the latest Cosmos episode. My current question: where are all the geniuses today? Why was Edmond Halley able to map the southern stars, identify the trade winds, help figure out the laws of planetary motion, calculate the orbit of Halley’s comet, build the diving bell, create a magnetic compass, and research common ages of death? Why could this one man accomplish so much? And he somehow worked with Isaac Newton? Why so many amazing minds at one time? Why not now? I want to be curiouser and curiouser.♥
Left: A root beer float at Nau’s. Having this cute pharmacy and soda shop a half-a-block away is wonderful and dangerous.
Center: On good weather days, we sit outside on our tiny balcony and drink margaritas and watch the sun set. I bring Bananagrams out, but we never get to it. Our neighbors often join us, all of us crowd together sharing drinks and chats and stories about life. It’s so wonderful.
Right: Sometimes I remember those recipes I learned long ago from friends or from cooking at the B&B. This week I made a strata with our Farmhouse veggies, and it was perfect.
Left: We finally finished our little reading corner in our bedroom! We found this fantastic chair at World Market, which happened to perfectly match the ottoman we already had. Most days you can find me here, reading John Steinbeck or playing Sudoku.
Right: We also set up our little listening corner with our vintage step stool that we found in Portland, our record player, and our small collection of records. I’m excited to find more records of Edith Piaf, Howlin’ Wolf, Ray Charles.
We’ve been eating really well now that we get a weekly Farmhouse Delivery. Most weeks I prep most of the veggies the day we receive them, then we make composed bowls or salads throughout the week. They usually start with some rice or beans, then pretty much anything else we have on hand. Last week I also made kale chips, which we nearly finished that day. So good.
This is one of the first years that I’m anxious for warmer days to arrive. I usually HATE summer, and wish that fall/winter would last forever. But this year, I’m ready for our swimming pool. I’m ready for skirts and sandals and sun.
Left: I made lime cordial for gimlets and sipped a Pimm’s cup with the window open one evening in hopes of luring warmer days in. Not quite yet.
Right: Another evening patio time, this time with deviled eggs topped with pickled beet stems, steamed sugar snap peas with salt, and rosé.
Left: I loved the idea of making angostura sugar cubes for summer champagne cocktails (found on Reclaiming Provincial), so I made some. So fun.
Right: I’ve started using this process for my daily notes/lists/journal. It has worked fantastically! Also, this light – every evening my desk is kissed by the sunset.
Also, currently listening to this on repeat.♥
Happiness is a Saturday morning, music playing, the sounds of my love chopping vegetables and humming from the kitchen.
Today’s Farmhouse Delivery was so lovely to see. We’ve been eating out quite a bit, and haven’t had many veggies in the house, so all these greens look so dang delicious. Sadly, some of our order didn’t arrive, and so we’re still waiting on butter, eggs, sauerkraut and hemp seeds.
Roux wanted some greens, too.
An afternoon of cooking produced roasted beets, sautéed kale and beet greens, cooked broccoli, carrots, and sugar snap peas, washed lettuce, and a jar of beet stems pickling away. Still to do: use up a head of cabbage, a bunch of cilantro, and a bunch of green onions.
I’m thinking of stuffed cabbage leaves and a slaw, a scallion sauce, and salsa. Maybe tomorrow.♥