Good morning all,
We are actually getting bits of rain this morning. I was out at 6am doing some hand watering but it has been raining off for a while and on and I'm so pleased. Even if it doesn't last long and even if it does make it humid, we need the all-over wet that I can't do by hand. The temp is still in the mid 70's (F) so it could be worse.
I am more clear headed this morning -- I slept really well last night (the night before I didn't sleep much at all) and I am feeling much better. Sweetie and I went to the grocery store after dark yesterday and it was so good to get out and feel functional again. With the rolling basket to hold onto I was able to walk quite well through the store aisles.
Last night I fixed a pkg of Marie Callendar's frozen lasagna. It was really good. We just had a salad with it. Tonight I plan to oven fry chicken with potatoes and onions. Perhaps okra on the side. A friend called and offered to bring a meal but I turned her down. Cooking is about the only thing I can do right now and I'm managing to keep us fed. (She didn't volunteer to wash windows. That I would have taken her up on! LOL)
Sweetie agreed to let me come upstairs without assistance so I'm going to have an "upstairs" morning. (The doctor cautioned I should have someone assist when climbing stairs.) I will have an opportunity to sort through the fabric my Mom's friend gave me. Some lovely pieces that are will give me an opportunity to be creative. More fun than sitting in a chair and dozing!
I've thought about my Dad a lot since this happened. He looked at his future as being years of just sitting in a chair, unable to do any of the things that were meaningful to him. What a terrible future! Just these few days of being house bound/chair/bed bound, have made me have a great deal of empathy for his situation. I'm sorry we lost him but I am not sorry he didn't have to live years in that condition.
The Ireland/UK blog pals and I have been talking about "grits." In the south USA they are eaten for breakfast. That brings up the subject of different foods in different places. What do YOU eat for breakfast? Care to comment?
Hill Country Sunrise
Gracie and her BFF, Ronan
The Boat Quilt I made
All the fabric except the white came from one piece of fabric
Finally Finished -- March's UFO
This one took forever!
Guess who came to visit
About Me
- limpingalong
- Texas, United States
- Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, quilter, photographer, teacher, lover of flowers and music and the sounds of birds and children laughing.
River Baptism
My Bluebonnet hat
I made two of these for the Granddaughters
Little boys need quilts, too!
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The pocket came off of one of Grandpa's shirts and it contains a small "Clifford" to play with.
The Comfort of Psalms
Made for Mother's 85th birthday
K's Quilt - three-dimensional
she loved the flaps
Deer in HCF's yard
A field of Texas wildflowers
Friends along for the river trip (see Nov 2, 2008)
Wasn't He Cute!
My Daddy -- long ago Seabee
7 comments:
Not very inventive here...cold cereal (I am not a hot-cereal person)....or toast....or bagels...or English muffins....or maybe eggs or pancakes. I'm glad you were able to get out of the house and also are moving about the house more, too.
Cheerios which are allegedly good for the heart. They are made from four different grains and are hollow in the middle. Bacon and eggs would be my favourite but I'm not allowed but she will let me have poached eggs on toast depending on how the hens are laying!
It's good to see you back in action again.
Now I have to ask you what is okra?
We are still having intermitant heavy showers here and it's about 17 degrees C
We have been talking about your grits and Wendy and I think they may be a sort of oat cake, or flapjack perhaps, without the syrup.
Apart from that, grit is something we put on the roads in icy conditions!
Hopefully Karol will make some for us to taste but I don't think we could go the peanut butter pie she spoke about on my blog!!!
Yes, life is slowly returning to normal.
I'm not a cereal person -- as soon as milk is poured, I'm done! It gets soggy so soon. However, I do eat some cereals dry (Krispix) and some I eat dipped by the spoonfull into milk (Cranberry Almond Crunch.)
Yes, Doug, they do say the "oat" cheerios may be good for the heart. I don't know about the multi-grain type that you described. I have just started buying them and I enjoy eating them dry, out of hand.
I'm with you -- would eat bacon and eggs every day, but, alas, it cannot be. I do eat egg beaters occasionally. They look like eggs but have absolutely no taste so one must add things to produce an edible result. I add chopped green or red peppers (we call them bell peppers here -- sweet, not hot.) perhaps bits of ham, some grated cheese, and salsa on top.
Well, I don't think grits are the way you describe -- for breakfast they resemble a hot cereal -- do you have Cream of Wheat or Malt-O-Meal there? That is what they look like, but aren't sweetened.
They aren't cake like at all.
However, one can make corn cakes from ground corn, and those can be eaten with syrup.
As for the peanut butter pie -- oh, my, that does sound heavenly.
Wish I could share it with you!
Right. So grits are not solid things then. It sounds as though they are porridge to me, Quaker Porridge Oats perhaps? Weetabix even? They are biscuit like and eaten with hot or cold milk. Hot milk just turns them to liquid.
In Scotland they have salt on porridge but we would have syrup or honey. Wendy prefers brown sugar (and cream!) or grated nutmeg.
I still can't imagine a hot cereal with bacon, cheese and spinach on as Karol said she had last week in Charleston!
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