New daisies, visits and Textiles and Tea postponed

A couple more daisies join the daily arrangement. Picking the first blooms pushes the next to bloom.

I watered outside flowers early, but already at 9 am, too hot to walk.

Yesterday Gary ran over to see how I was doing in the heat, while officially returning containers.  Shortly after, the letter carrier delivered a package of meds into my hand, and asked how I was managing. Some of our local carriers are unofficial social workers. 

Since the stolen meds, he's insisted on personal delivery and even checked whether the man who accepted them during my recovery was my son! Just being careful. And much appreciated. 

I notice since T2 started, it's been like the days after 9/11, people checking on each other's welfare. For new readers: 9/11 was very close to home, we all knew casualties in the Towers,our train station parking lot was filled with cars whose owners were gone. Our post office was the center of the anthrax attack. So we looked out for everyone, strangers, didn't matter, for a while after.

Food notes. I tried mixing canned pumpkin with yogurt and got an excellent dessert. I used to buy mango yogurt from the Asian market until they moved away. Now I realize that with a bit of amchur and turmeric or pumpkin, I have a good lookalike.

I also plan to try Suzanne's idea about Graham cracker crumbs on lime flavored yogurt. Collaborative food! 

And I plan on crushed berries in yogurt. I've always added ingredients but not mixed them in to a pudding idea. I think this will be the Summer of Yogurt. Please weigh in with ideas. The Boudian Cooking Co-op Calls.

Lunch was several ideas drawn from Will Yeung, minimal cooking. I made brown rice, heavily seasoned the water with cayenne, salt, smoked and sweet paprika and tomato paste. 

While that was cooking, I roasted chickpeas with salt,minced garlic and ginger, avocado oil in the toaster oven at 400°f for about 25 minutes. Scallions for garnish.

Nice lunch,  and enough chickpeas left for tomorrow with rice.  I like the idea of seasoning the rice instead of the other ingredients, then serving them together. And I want to try making a dipping sauce but pour it over cooked rice once the dish is assembled. Same flavors coming from different directions.

Since I can't get out walking today, I've got more serious about indoor fitness. Quite a few of the moves I learned in PT are classic and you can find them on YouTube. I have favorite workout people, including this mother and daughter team. The mom is in her eighties, daughter in fifties, so it's good for mid and older women.  

The mom is so good humored about what she can manage and what's hard, the daughter clearly skilled at not pushing but keeping up a challenge. Here's what I watched today.

I used 5lb dumbbells throughout, the daughter switched between 5,8,and10. The mom used 2lb. You use what's right for you, not too easy.  And they take rest and water breaks. I took an extra couple of minutes about halfway through. I really like this pace. There's a timer, with a  second hand going,  top right as you work, so you can see how long to the end of each exercise.  They're about fitting in eight to twelve reps in approximately 30+ seconds.

Quite a few of my PT exercises show up in this workout, so it's a good reminder.  I'm still in recovery mode in my left leg muscles, some of which had shortened over the months of joint issues and compensating. The muscles in front and below the knee are tighter than they used to be, too,  so this is good. None of it hurts, but you know you've been working. 

Meanwhile 

I did not go to the Tuesday knitting group, as you probably guessed.

Textiles and Tea featured Valeria Maldonado, an architect and 3D fiber artist. This post is already full, so I'll talk about her tomorrow.

Happy day everyone, hang in there