Day of Apple Butter

Oh, yum. One of the things I miss most about my great aunt Alice (my grandmother's sister) is the things she (and her mother, my great-grandmother) made. Apple butter, coleslaw, all kinds of canned vegetables and jellies. Most of it on a wood stove for years, too.

Phew!

The buzzer just went off for the front door. I wasn't expecting anyone, but looked at the time and realized that it's the usual time when my dad arrives when he comes to visit. I took the elevator down, racking my brain to try and remember if Dad and I had talked about him coming today, because if we had, I'd forgotten and my apartment is a mess!

Turns out it was an Amazon delivery, which I didn't know they did on Sundays. Cool!

I got more lawn bags. By the time I got home, you could no longer tell that I had filled the two lawn bags I had left before running out.

Just hand me a rock and call me Sisyphus.

At least the leaves really do have an end? Eventually....

Bathroom is clean (enough), lunch has been eaten. Next, put in the laundry, get in the shower, and maybe a little shopping while it dries.

That video was cool

and My microwave could use a good scrub, but we should run some errands ...

I have a dwarf meyer but it didn't produce anything yet. My dwarf key lime started fruiting recently, though. Dwarf peach is sad.

So like everyone else with cats mine woke us up at their normal time (6:30 PST) -- Avon on my stomach and KK insistently kneading my chest. I can sleep through them breakfast-begging but Bob typically can't, so he gets up to feed them. I told him, "feed them at 6:45" so that over the course of 3 days I can get them back to a 7:30 feeding time. He thought the clocks were wrong and we were supposed to spring forward -- so he fed them at 8:30, after listening to their increasingly unhinged meows for two hours! (I just slept through all of it.)

I've come across a few interesting websites this week, wanted to share:

Some pics from a sculpture exhibition in Sydney: [link]

A rather cool video of a series of pendulums: [link]

A selection of witty comebacks: [link] I love the Montagu-Wilkes exchange, though the picture makes it hard to take it seriously.

Edit: I'm going to add this selection of animal photos: [link]

I read that comeback link a few days ago, and there were som really great ones...

I spent much of yesterday with my oldest friend in the world (we met in 7th grade when I saw her reading Dune Messiah in home ec class), who was in town for the week for work. We wandered along the Embarcadero and then went to Oakland where she met my dog and saw my house, and I gave her a bunch of audiobooks to listen to with her kids. And then we had a great dinner and I took her to the airport.

The best thing is that she'll be back once or twice a year for the foreseeable future, because of the work gig. This is marvelous: she's never been much of a traveler and I don't get back east much anymore, although I saw her (and her baby goats! so cute!) in May.

Apparently we had an earthquake yesterday afternoon when we were walking, and I didn't notice it at all.

ita, I like that you said when you get better. Because I'm sure you will. Also sending good thoughts for your mom.

Actually, while I haven't gone completely GF, my fibro flareups have been fewer and less nasty since I cut wheat from my diet. Nasty, arthritis-like pain is one of the main symptoms, and I haven't had that for a while.

My doc is gently trying to convince me to go GF, because it helps with either the symptoms of the Lyme, or the symptoms of one of the co-infections. (I don't remember which, just that GF is supposed to help. I need to start taking notes at my appointments.)