the run by posting

 

 

I planted nasturtiums today.  I had planted some in the other garden weeks ago and there was no sign that any of them came up, that seed was older, but unopened.  The strawberries are working on being in full swing, except that it is forecasted to be raining a lot the next few days.  I'm picking and eating what I get, which has been two to four berries a day.  Waiting for other things to come up. 

 We went shopping after I got home from work today, the family got snacks and we replenished the things that we needed to.  Completely forgot the potatoes.  We had cannelini beans, tomato, yellow summer squash, onions and a chopped up porkchop as a dinner tonight alongside Italian bread with butter.  Mark had just a porkchop and the bread.  

 Yesterday I made a fruit thing to go beside dinner and it was five strawberries from the garden chopped up into some pre-chopped and frozen apple I had put in the freezer months ago, then with a few brazil nuts chopped fine into some sugar in the food processor and a little butter cut up and scattered into it - put aluminum foil on it and put it in beside our porkchops to bake.  It was a miniscule flourless crumble type thing, and the brazil nuts were Mark's idea and they really did go well with it.   It was a bit moist - because I didn't use any flour, but it tasted wonderful for 'finding something to do with what we have'.  I had constantly pushed that container with the apple to the side in the freezer, almost had forgotten what it was - and I didn't want it to go to waste.  The tomato in tonight's dish was the same, I had chopped and frozen it before it went bad in the fridge - and was trying to get myself to use it in a recipe.

 I put one of my colored pencil tin kits by the bed headboard with the notebook that is there and have drawn a page two nights in a row.  I can tell my hands don't have the endurance they had built up before when I would draw for 25 minutes straight and not feel it.  Now I feel it.  Eight thirty is very late for me now, and I am ready to fall into bed.  And then I stayed up until 9:15 drawing that house we saw on the way to the store - the one with the 'magnificent' tree in the back, that Mark pointed out to Esme.

 We've finished the discs of Red Dwarf that we had.  I read online while rec. it to someone else there were more seasons that we don't have.  Did French-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-French today.  Bounced around just one area of my little Minetest world and gathered four more locations that I had made previously, and built two tiny houses (just 4 square floors inside each) to house some supplies on two more that I added in between a point A and point B (and I saw lots of orange calcite there).