Yesterday we ate our first spinach. It was sorta ugly because of the hail damage but once it was cooked until just barely wilted it was marvelous with the ravioli in Alfredo sauce. Store bought fresh spinach isn't bad but I swear our just picked stuff had the most wonderful nourishing taste, the essence of warm green vitamins filling winter's lack in your body. A spring tonic like poke greens and lambs quarter in the spring when we were kids. I often believe that our bodies have this sense of what we lack in the way of food supplied vitamins if we can hear it speak. But we tend to overeat and fill our stomach with convenient food rather than think what does my body need to survive. I also believe that we often confuse hunger with thirst. We are easily confused. But if you doubt, try for even just one day, and every time your body or mind says hunger, give it water instead. Yes, eat your three meals a day but all that inbetween stuff, take a drink of your body's main component, water. I think it will make you laugh at how you've been fooled.
Sabbath school class, this week read chapters 29-through the end of Job. Then we get to read the Psalms.
It's been a crazy week, Betty left to visit Michael (Washington) so I had her house to look after and then Mabel fell at the nursing home and ended up in the hospital with another break. Same side as one not yet healed. They are debating whether or not to do more surgery. Old people sure need good advocates, doctors just don't work well with them and this old person is often confused so what does she know and how quick will she forget, 2 seconds or maybe 1 hour. So I feel like a crazy person running from one house to another, hospital, nursing home (Merle is there) and then my own house. I managed to get Pat and his Dad's Father Day cards done in between frying chicken! The bad thing about being able to make cards, is now you are obligated to make all cards or you must not love them!
Speeaking of cards, this week is birthday card committee thursday at church, I feel like the rabbit in Alice of Wonderland, oh what will I do!
I did get in a couple of yard sales Friday morning before all this happened. I got a baker's rack for $10.00 which I promptly set up in my kitchen to hold all my jars of beans and pasta. I collect decorative glass canisters or containers with attractive lids and store my stuff in them because they look pretty. Now I have a bit more counter space and cupboard space. And let me tell you, my cupboards need re-organization again! How does this happen? Oh yes, I'm in a hurry and just shove it where ever! I also got a deck of cards from Shanghai China that says, Characters in Water Margin. The cards all have different chinese people like samarai warriors, peasants, etc on them. I don't know if this was a play or a painted piece of chinese art. Water Margin, guess I'll have to investigate. But I love the pictures and they will turn into some spcial cards with some chinese calligraphy rubber stamps. Okay, Water Margin is one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. It is during the Song dynasty or the 11th century.
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