"Your health is important. Eat your vegetables!" ~ fortune cookie from the Tin Loong lunch buffet
My mother could have written that fortune.
After buying more Gold Rush apples at Mercier's Orchards last week, we stopped for the lunch buffet at Tin Loong in Blue Ridge.......best Chinese food around here. We usually eat out at lunchtime because the prices are better and it allows us to eat out more often. Funny how all the things we used to comment about regarding retired people are the things we now do! Like Cliff says, "because we can." We even go out and clog the roads on a Sunday when we feel like trying new destinations.
The temp this morning was about 30 degrees at 6:30, a 16-degree drop from yesterday morning. And once again we had a slow steady rain all day yesterday amounting to a little over a half-inch. The ground is so saturated that here and there tree roots have become exposed from erosion and we notice more trees down and more frequent rock slides. Today will be low 60's and full sun. After my yoga class, I'll find something to do outside. Too nice to be stuck in the house. With Sunday's rainy day, it was a great time to just bake and prepare food for the freezer. I made a miso soup for our lunches this week, a pan of 1/2 meat-stuffed & 1/2 cheese-stuffed shells, a large batch of red-bell stuffed peppers, and a small casserole dish of strawberry-rhubarb crisp. I'm hoping our rhubarb will produce good stalks this year. I may have to redo the soil and add more organic matter. The seeds started indoors on February 2 are all up through the soil. There are twelve tomatoes, six different kinds, and the Red Russian Kale plants will be ready to go into the garden as soon as it is tilled. There should another delivery of heirloom seeds at the end of this week. Cliff cut down one more large oak tree that threw too much shade from the southern end of the garden. We hated to see it go. It was such a stately tree.........but it'll allow more sun and the tree will be cut, seasoned, and stacked for future house heat.
My mother could have written that fortune.
After buying more Gold Rush apples at Mercier's Orchards last week, we stopped for the lunch buffet at Tin Loong in Blue Ridge.......best Chinese food around here. We usually eat out at lunchtime because the prices are better and it allows us to eat out more often. Funny how all the things we used to comment about regarding retired people are the things we now do! Like Cliff says, "because we can." We even go out and clog the roads on a Sunday when we feel like trying new destinations.
The temp this morning was about 30 degrees at 6:30, a 16-degree drop from yesterday morning. And once again we had a slow steady rain all day yesterday amounting to a little over a half-inch. The ground is so saturated that here and there tree roots have become exposed from erosion and we notice more trees down and more frequent rock slides. Today will be low 60's and full sun. After my yoga class, I'll find something to do outside. Too nice to be stuck in the house. With Sunday's rainy day, it was a great time to just bake and prepare food for the freezer. I made a miso soup for our lunches this week, a pan of 1/2 meat-stuffed & 1/2 cheese-stuffed shells, a large batch of red-bell stuffed peppers, and a small casserole dish of strawberry-rhubarb crisp. I'm hoping our rhubarb will produce good stalks this year. I may have to redo the soil and add more organic matter. The seeds started indoors on February 2 are all up through the soil. There are twelve tomatoes, six different kinds, and the Red Russian Kale plants will be ready to go into the garden as soon as it is tilled. There should another delivery of heirloom seeds at the end of this week. Cliff cut down one more large oak tree that threw too much shade from the southern end of the garden. We hated to see it go. It was such a stately tree.........but it'll allow more sun and the tree will be cut, seasoned, and stacked for future house heat.
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