Monday, February 12, 2024

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That is a sugar snap pea blossom. Finally, after months of just hanging out on the fence, the vines have started blooming. I now know they can survive freezes just fine but when it comes to thriving, they seem to need warmer temperatures. 
I don't know. I really don't know anything. Well, I know that the pea vines are so pretty and the blossoms are so...ladylike. As I always say, when Mother Nature finds a design she likes, she is not afraid to use it over and over again. 

Really, the garden is looking as pretty as it'll ever look. Here's some kale.


And lettuce there on the right. I don't think I've ever grown such pretty greens. Here are the salad greens I picked for our supper, washed and ready for the salad bowl.


And yes, that IS the forty-seven thousandth, nine-hundred and sixty-second picture of salad greens I've posted over the years. 

Y'all- I'm tired. I am the most unmotivated I've been in my entire life. I am not doing shit. If I get a load of laundry done and put away and the trash taken to the dump and a meal made, I'm having a good day. 
I'm not sure what's up with me. I think some of it has to do with feeling like nothing really matters anymore. Am I quoting Freddie Mercury? Maybe I'm just suffering from some sort of existential exhaustion. Maybe I'm dying. 
Well, aren't we all? 
And this reminds me of the Bob Dylan song, "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" wherein he sings, "He who is not busy being born is busy dying." 
Yeah, well, I am certainly not busy being born. 
I bet he still sings that in his endless concert tours. Bless Dylan, that ephemeral spirit-poet of our generation. 

I went to town today briefly. I decided that I'd make my sweetheart some chocolate truffles for Valentine's Day. Lis taught me how to make them and they are the easiest thing in the world to make. And are about the most delicious thing in the world to eat. Here are the ingredients:
Bittersweet chocolate.
Cream.
You can get fancy and roll them in cocoa or chopped pecans or coconut or whatever you want. 
So I needed to get the two ingredients, which I did, and I got to see Lily in the not-yet open Publix Liquor Store where she's going to be working. That was nice. They're getting it all together. There's something that makes my heart so happy when Lily introduces me to coworkers. "This is my mommy," she says. 
I soften like bittersweet chocolate in steaming cream. 

I started my new Frida puzzle today. Really, if I could spend my entire days working on jigsaw puzzles and reading I would be perfectly content. I'm reading a book called Singer Distance by Ethan Chatagnier. I picked it out at random at the library and I have no idea how to describe it. Here's what Tin House has to say about it. 
It's not quite like anything I've ever read and so far, I like it very much. Martians are involved. The first chapter book I think I ever read was called "Marooned on Mars." I got it from one of the six or so bookcase shelves in the Roseland Community Center where there was a sort-of library open one evening a week. I've loved Science Fiction ever since. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, which also involved Martians, informed some of my most profound realizations in high school. 

I am hoping that tomorrow is a better day. It has rained today, off and on, and has been gloomy again. Perhaps that is part of the problem. Again- I have no idea. 

I do have to say that I was sorry to hear of the death of Bob Edwards who was known mostly for his many years as a journalist and broadcaster on NPR. So many of us loved his voice. I'll never forget how, on 9/11, before any of us really had the slightest idea of what was happening, the sound of his voice was so comforting and reassuring. If Bob Edwards was on the radio, the world had not quite come to an end yet. And if it did, he would have calmly ushered us into the inevitable. 

Love...Ms. Moon



32 comments:

  1. Marcia in Colorado here ... That sounds like a book I would read or listen to! I watch far too much of the Ancient Aliens show, but Georgio with the crazy hair is making more sense then the so-called religious tots and pears folks!

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    1. Sorry. I just can't get behind the Ancient Aliens. I'm not saying I don't believe that aliens ever visited earth. In fact I have an entire theory about how humans are a crossbreed between apes and aliens which is no doubt not true, but I like it anyway. However, I think it's disrespectful to our long-ago ancestors to think that they needed extraterrestrial help to figure things out. They were just as smart as we are, if not more so. But I will admit I have watched more than a few hours of that show.

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  2. I love all the greens in your garden, the colors as well as the foods.

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    1. Isn't it wonderful how many shades of food there are?

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  3. It takes you more than five minutes to properly clean that mess of greens! To put together a meal. Do a load of laundry and put it away. Go to the dump. Go to town. That would lay me low.
    It will be interesting to hear about Lily's new job.

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    1. It honestly doesn't take much more than five minutes to clean greens. I know I'm not completely unproductive but some days it sure feels like I am.
      I really hope that Lily loves her new job. She's good with people.

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  4. I knew they were pea flowers but thought maybe sweet pea, the ones that just flower without edible peas. The greens look so fresh and tasty, though I will always hate kale.

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    1. I have learned to tolerate kale okay. If I cut it thinly enough in salads, it is fine, although I do like it with a mix of other greens, not all by itself. And cooked? Well, I think it's pretty good. Again, though, I like to mix my cooking greens up too.

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  5. never knew Truffles could be so simple to make! Good for you! We'll be lucky if I get a nice meal made.....no truffles here! I'm with you on tired and un-motivated..... it persists with me as well and I'm over it.....but can't seem to change what it is. don't like it, but it's *me* at the present. Your garden looks beautiful already...and yes those snap pea flowers are a sexy lot!
    Susan M

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    1. The ganache is made for the truffles! Hurray!

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  6. There is nothing wrong with doing puzzles and reading.
    But maybe a blood test? Could you be anaemic?
    Regardless I hope you feel perkier soon.

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    1. I am one of those women who will die before they go to a hospital or call an ambulance. Well, unless I'm having terrible pain and it's taking too long to kill me.

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  7. I was just reading about oxalic acid, found in many vegetables and should be limited if one is prone to kidney stones. Were you aware of this? I learn something new every day.

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    1. Yes. I knew that. There are also more than one type of kidney stone which arise from different foods.

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  8. It sounds to me like you do more than you think on these days you say you’re doing nothing. And 47,962 photos of greens is nothing to sneeze at. I’ve shared almost as many of our desert roses.There’s always the hope that tomorrow will be a better day. Hugs!

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    1. And today HAS been a better day, Mitchell. Thank you. I hope it has been for you too. Hugs back at you!

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  9. I haven't made truffles in ages! They really are delicious.

    I can't get enough pictures of your greens!

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  10. Stranger In A Strange Land. when did I read that? could have been high school and yeah, me too. i read sci fi almost exclusively for many years.

    I say the same thing, when nature finds a form she likes/is successful she uses it over and over.

    valentine's day is another holiday we ignore. I wasn't always like this but my efforts were never reciprocated. nothing even as simple as a card much less flowers. I think that kind of stuff gets imbedded as a child and if your natal family doesn't make a big deal then as an adult you don't either. at least that's my theory. the husband's mother abandoned the family when he was 9, his father was a cold hard ass who was often out of town for work, so looked after by grandparents or a sitter. plus jewish.

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    1. I think Science Fiction is a great genre. Well, of course it depends on the author's writing skills and story-telling skills.
      As for Nature finding a form she likes- oh, the mushrooms!
      We don't really do much for Valentine's any more. But we do try to have a nice meal and just be extra sweet.
      Your husband had a hard upbringing, didn't he?

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  11. Why not just spend your days reading and working jigsaw puzzles, Mary?! I think we have been raised to feel guilty if we are not "productive" but we have been productive for a long time and it is good to take time now and relax!
    You are busy enough! (might be my new mantra) :)

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    1. I DO feel so guilty if I'm not productive. I tell myself all the time that guilt serves no purpose but I don't listen to myself.
      To misquote Stuart Smiley:
      "I am good enough, I am busy enough, and people like me!"

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  12. Sugar snap peas made me tear up. Such delicacies!

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    1. They are. And the vines themselves are delicious too but I cannot bring myself to eat them because I want all the peas!

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  13. That was me, Rebecca

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  14. Unlike you, I have never been a fan of science fiction. Instinctively, I prefer books that speak of the here and now, of "REALITY!" though I am of course aware that good science fiction can reflect lived experience and it doesn't have to all be about hoverboards and rockets.

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    1. What? Have you never read Ray Bradbury? "The Martian Chronicles"? When you've finished reading Keith Richards' autobiography, you should! Bradbury is a poet, a wordsmith, an amazing and lovely storyteller.

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  15. Have you checked with your doctor to see if there is a medical reason for your fatigue? I was diagnosed with lupus nearly 25 years ago and I hear your annoyance at your fatigue. I'm on that bench with you due to lupus fatigue. Many other medical problems cause fatigue, too so you might not have lupus like I do.

    I plan my days with what needs to be done and sit and read when I get tired. What doesn't get done just waits because if I get too tired I cry and that's no fun. Also, my sleep isn't restful. In all of my nursing career, I'd never heard of that being possible but I'm here to tell you it is.

    Wishn Wishing you well.

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    1. I can pretty much correlate my fatigue with depression although I think that I may have chronic fatigue syndrome associated with a very bad case of mono that I had as a teenager. It comes and it goes. I'm pretty sure I do not have lupus. My bloodwork has never shown anything to indicate that I do.
      I appreciate your suggestions.

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  16. I'm not sure how I got to your blog, I only read two or three weaving blogs but I do read Steve. I want to tell you that you are the high point of my day. Maybe that's pathetic, but I so look for ward to your blog each day. You are an inspiration, which I hope will help me more each day.

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    1. You have no idea how much your words mean to me. I hope it's not pathetic that you look forward to reading my blog every day because I look forward to writing my blog every day. Sometimes it is the thing that gets me through.

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