Friday's test went much faster than anticipated, because, the cardio tech tols me, I'm small! Easy to read the heart when there's little flesh around it!
He said he'd expected a very large woman to appear, because my age and hip replacement usually indicate that, and was amused to see me trotting in.
Results on Monday.
Handsome Son kindly came straight from his early shift to drive me in my car to the doctor's office. Back home we shared a large pot of tea and the chocolates, which are now almost history.
He looked at the linky stuff and concluded the best you can do is avoid hitting the icon, easier said than done on a small screen. We'll see if my efforts work.
This is new to me, because of Chambersburg, the Burg, Trenton, influence. There you eat homemade pasta, literally made by Nonna in the restaurant kitchen, and from-scratch sauce, only sparingly applied. Delicious and when the pasta is handmade fresh, a great way to treat it.
But though the fusilli is organic, it's dried, so putting it in the sauce works. Enough for another meal here.
And here's the giant foster plant now in the upstairs collection.
Handsome Son commented that this is Gary's greenhouse for the winter!
Happy day everyone, look out for weather over the weekend, a nor'easter forecast here.
I hope your results are good on Monday! Small but mighty...
ReplyDeleteThe cardio said he couldn't hear anything different from last time,vso this is just to leave an update test for his successor. So I'm hoping nothing dramatic shows up.
DeleteTradescantia (plant) - sale of it is banned here in NZ because it is so invasive. It certainly covered ground quickly in the garden in Greece. That pasta sauce looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteIt certainly roots very readily. Every joint a potential plant. I plan to trim this one back so it doesn't get leggy.
DeleteIt’s great when you get to a doctors appointment and it all goes smoothly and quickly.
ReplyDeleteI have just bought two little plants that look like this. I’ve got them in pots out front. I had no idea how big they grew. Luckily they’re in fairly large pots. I only got them because they had pink leaves.
Yup. That’s how I make decisions. Very high tech
I think that's how a lot of gardening decisions are made. It seems that you couldn't buy this in NZ, according to F above. I'm surprised the rules are different for Australia.
DeleteThe veggie mix, pre-pasta, looks delicious. I haven't had fusilli in ages.
ReplyDeleteI subbed quite a bit there, not having peppers and zucchini as in the original recipe. Leeks, spinach! It was fine. I think it's the technique that's good.
DeleteI need someone to foster about a dozen pelargoniums over the winter... making space for them will be a challenge!
ReplyDeleteHouses always seem a bit small when plants come in for the winter.
DeleteThat plant is glorious. I’d feel terrible pressure! Lunch looks delicious. I can’t believe there are chocolates remaining.
ReplyDeleteI'm used to fostering plants for him. I've got several already. He's quite accepting of whatever happens to them, though they usually do okay.
DeleteI need to bring in my house plants before we have frosts. It's a shame, because they look so happy outside, and my house looks reasonably tidy - well, no, it just looks less cluttered than it does in the colder months.
ReplyDeleteBack when I had more shade, I loved turning all my houseplants out in summer, like sending them off to camp. The house felt bigger.
DeleteI think Younger Son's mother-in-law in Italy makes her own pasta. And, yes, pasta is the main item with only a little sauce.
ReplyDeleteFresh pasta is quite different from the boxed type. I've made pasta and been surprised at how fast it cooked. After all the work of making it, you do feel like showcasing it
DeleteCardio test sounds easy peasey, and reminds me I’m going in for one in a few weeks. I never remember when the last one was. Oh yes, plants coming inside…and which to let go of because those springtime purchases are no longer as worth dealing with all winter! At least the sun shines into the windows for them!
ReplyDeleteThis time lying on that hard table was so much easier without the pain I was in last time I did it. Then it seemed to take hours. I had to lie on the hurting hip side, ow.
DeleteOh yes, if you are cutting and pasting from a phone, it is much more problematic. Just thin morning, I switched from my ipad to my computer to do some blog inputting. It was giving me problems on the tablet. You can highlight the inputted text and click Normal. It will clear the formatting but not the links IIRC.
ReplyDeleteNo cutting and pasting on my phone or tablet, no highlighting. They claim it can be done, but in practice it's nearly impossible. I'm just avoiding the icon now, but can't make a correction I see because I can't type there without clicking the icon. So I hope people don't notice.
DeleteYou ARE Gary's winter greenhouse!
ReplyDeleteA nor'easter is forecast? WHAT???!!!
It's the season of storms. Already!
DeleteI'm glad your echo was quick and easy. Your handsome son sounds like a good man as well. And that plant of Gary's, beautiful.
ReplyDeleteHandsome Son is a good friend, yes. The tradescantia is huge -- they grow anywhere, whether invited or not.
DeleteLunch looks great, Boud. As always!
ReplyDeleteIt was very good. I'm thinking about making pasta at some point. It's been a while.
DeleteGlad everything went smoothly and you had chocolates with Handsome Son. ;)
ReplyDeleteThe chocolates were the best bit.
DeleteWe grew one of those "wandering dude" plants from cuttings I found atop a neighbor's garden waste bag. The plants do flourish! (In fact, now we have three of them.)
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to avoid them!
Deletemmmmm chocolates! I like them!
ReplyDeleteOh the wandering purple plant! I used to have them also. They do have beautiful colors.
They're endlessly prolific, too.
DeleteHey the chocolate makes everything better. LOL Your meal looks delicious.
ReplyDeleteIt was great comfort food.
DeleteI'm so glad the test went well. DInner looks grand and so does your new plant!
ReplyDeleteI hope the test results go well, too. Hopeful. That recipe is definitely worth repeating
DeleteI managed to kill my previous 'wandering' plant (along with pretty much all the rest of my plants) when I made the mistake of reading something that suggested that using water that had been covering banana peels would be a good idea. Turns out not so much. I didn't do anything else that was different so it must have been the banana water.
ReplyDeleteFingers crossed for good test results on Monday.
The banana idea is really odd. Yes, hoping for the best in results. My cardio seemed pretty optimistic about it.
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