Saturday morning...

[fajrdrako]

Is there something wrong with me? I woke up at 8 a.m., full of energy, and instead of going for a walk in the sunshine, or going to a Tai Chi class, or reading, or going out for breakfast with maaseru and maaboroshi, I chose to do laundry and housework. There's a corner of my living room, you see, that hadn't been cleaned since I broke my ankle (because cleaning it would involve moving furniture), so today, well, I moved furniture.

The room looks great. I even did work in the bedroom. And bought groceries. I found the pliers that Patrick lost last week under the television stand, but I didn't find my TV remote anywhere.

It can't be age; just about everyone I know gets less interested in doing housework as they get older.

I listened to Terry Pratchett's Jingo as I did all of this. Great fun.

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[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

It's the joy of having an iPod. You can listen to things - read books and still get work done. Still hard to hear over the vacuum, though - that's what the pause button is for.

If only the remote would call to me, maybe I could hear it and find it! As it is - resounding silence. Absence. Perplexing.

Wasn't it beautiful today? I walked along Third Ave. and it was gorgeous: sky so blue it looked painted, and bright orange trees with bits of scarlet. Superb.

Funny: I had beet greens at Lisa's place just last week. David had a fancy recipe for them; quite good, though I'm not sure if I want to try buying and preparing them myself.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

I couldn't find beets w/o beet greens, so I guess we'll see if we like them. If we don't, that's what a compost pile is for.

In David's recipe, were they flavoured with garlic, or ginger, or lemon, or anything else obvious you could tell?

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to remember what David's recipe was. I can always ask him! I seem to remember both garlic and lemon, and it was a little bit like spinach and a little bit like kale.

[auriaephiala.livejournal.com]

I made them tonight: I washed them thoroughly and cut off the stems, then melted some butter in a big frying pan and slowly cooked a large clove of garlic which I'd run through a press. Once that was golden, I put the beet greens in: they very quickly reduced to about 1/4 of their previous size.

I quite liked them, though they would have been better if they hadn't sat on the stove for more than an hour waiting for the spouse. They have a stronger taste than spinach, but a pleasant one on the whole. (The spouse said they were OK, but was not enthusiastic. He ate most of the peas; I ate most of the beet greens).

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I didn't feel enthusiastic about the beet greens either. They were all right, they were interesting, but I like spinach better.