Limes for a limey, long time since I had any, but I love the flavor. It's a citrus fruit I'm not allergic to, unlike all the orange family.
The cauliflower is for an upcoming cheese cauliflower, plenty of cheeses available for the sauce, and a sturdy Western meal, contrasting to the Asian type of cooking I've been doing.
Carrots to be steamed and added to the black bean rice dish, and as salad makings. Orzo because I haven't had any for ages and they're fast for quick meals and in soup. Cannellini beans because I use them all the time, versatile things.
High end pop tarts, all organic ingredients because it's soon going to be my birthday. I've made these from scratch in the past. Home baked junk food!
Speaking of birthdays, in the Gratitude book by Oliver Sacks, he talks about, in his eighties, feeling detached from the world. He still cared, but was ready to leave everything to the next generation.
I'm far from detached, in fact still very actively involved in political action, so we differ greatly there. Soon I'll be in the second half of my eighties, an age Oliver didn't reach. But he was writing after a terminal diagnosis, and I'm in a very different position there.
Anyway I think pop tarts are in order.
The other present I'm giving myself is a set of Tunisian crochet hooks, because I've been making everything on the one big hook available, which is a bit hard on my hands, also limiting. Anyway it belongs to the library, so I can return it to their collection.
In regular crochet, I'm doing the occasional granny squares in a range of blues and greens, maybe ending as a throw.
Just a handy thing to pick up at odd times.
In celebratory Sag mode, I'll ask Handsome Son to come over on whatever day we are both free, and make me lunch, our usual procedure. It's a visit and a present in one. Then he'll bring down the box of Christmas stuff and we'll set it up. Not much, just a gesture to the festive season.
Meanwhile life goes on in the plant world, see the curry leaf plant has started two groups of baby plants.
It's so satisfying to grow your own flavoring ingredients. I use curry leaves quite a bit.
Happy day everyone, try not to detach before you need to.
I have a number of family obligations keeping me attached still. I hope to not detach for a while, just because.
ReplyDeleteYes, the ties that bind!
DeleteI'm not feeling detached from the world either, but I AM increasingly fed up with the rampant stupidity and blindness on display.
ReplyDeleteNo argument here.
DeleteYou are so alert and independent and competent for your age.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm pretty wonderful!! 😉
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DeletePop Tarts are something I haven't had since our boys were small. Might have to get some just for the fun of it.
ReplyDeleteI think Tunisian hooks are a great gift to you from you with love. It's not an art form I've tried but one day I plan to just because it's a skill I'd like to learn.
They're easy to make at home and so much better. Maybe RC could be persuaded?
DeleteYou'd pick up Tunisian in a flash with your knowledge of knitting and crochet. Go for it!
Organic pop tarts? That's a new one. I hope you enjoy them and have a great weekend!
ReplyDeleteI think I'll return to making my own. They're pretty easy, and mine have more jam inside.
DeletePop Tarts. I haven't heard that name in decades! I have become less engaged. It's a bit too easy for me to do. And yes, you are pretty wonderful.
ReplyDeleteMy comment was strictly a joke! I think health issues make it harder to be engaged outside yourself, though.
DeleteThe colors of those three granny squares together delights me.
ReplyDeleteOliver may have felt as if was detaching but he was writing at that time too, which is very much a form of communication and engagement. But I understand what he was saying. Perhaps that feeling is a normal and healthy one if you know that your time here is indeed quite limited. A letting go...
I love that color family, too. You're right to point out the contradiction in writing about being detached, yes. His own time was suddenly very short.
DeleteNobody could accuse you of being detached. You are the most proactive and interested middle-80s person I know.
ReplyDeleteI'm a Sag. It's how we roll.
DeleteThanks for bringing up being detached in your 80's. I haven't thought about my age that way. I wish is were detached from the grocery store, but not enogh to make me switch to ordering on my phone and pick it up. I want to stay home with Faith, but when I get outside and in my car, I enjoy going to the post office, the bank, and so on. I read the Washington Post every day and am intersted in politics, but don't read about wars and accidents and things that may make me upset. Well, something to think about this, being or not being attached as you grow old. Some things you have to let go, but other things... This may be a blog post...
ReplyDeleteI'd like to hear more from you about this, Inger. I suppose running a blog is in itself evidence of non detachment!
DeleteI wonder what makes you allergic to oranges but not limes? That's very interesting. Could it simply be that oranges are bigger, so when you consume them you're getting more citrus stuff than with a smaller lime? Are you allergic to grapefruit?
ReplyDelete(This is the Florida boy in me, wanting the full story on the citrus.)
I can understand detaching after a diagnosis of terminal illness. It's a coping mechanism, I would think.
I can tolerate lemons and limes in any amount, but not even small amounts of oranges or grapefruit. Even orange extract in high end vitamin C tablets sets me off. Not sure what it's about. But anyway grapefruit are off the table because of interaction with meds.
DeleteYes about that detachment after the diagnosis.
You show us the way, Boud! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteUh-oh! Watch who you follow..
DeleteNo you are definitely not detached. And I’m so very pleased about that.
ReplyDeleteI’m learning so much from your wisdom. Thank you
That's a very happy thing to read, thank you! I think I'm too engrossed to detach.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know you were quite that age. You do so well, in a manner I cannot contemplate doing myself.
ReplyDeleteWait till you get there, you might be surprised!
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