Take a Ride

Come take a ride with me as I share my stream of thoughts this Tuesday evening. 

Coming soon, I hope. This was our first crocus bloom last year on March 12.

I have high hopes for what Amazon delivered to our door this evening - an air purifier. Since construction began on the house, I have been miserable at home with sneezing, stuffiness, runny nose, and itchy eyes. The dust is driving me crazy. Theo and Ward aren't suffering the same way, although Theo is at work most of the time and has his own air purifier running in his room when he is home. And to think that we almost got rid of that purifier when we were cleaning out my parents' house. 

And speaking of my parents' things, we almost gave away a little fridge from them that is in our temporary kitchen in the living room. It works great but is very loud. We have tried everything to remedy the noise to no avail. So if you want to have a conversation, you have to go into another room. Lucky that we have other rooms to go to. 

But back to the air purifier. So far, so good. It's been plugged up for a couple of hours, and I haven't sneezed once. My nose is still stopped up, but that's okay. I can live with that. The real test will be tomorrow, when they will be doing a final sweep of the subfloor before the floor guy starts laying the tile. That's bound to stir up a lot of dust.

And speaking of the floor guy coming tomorrow, when I get up from here, I need to go clear the stuff off of the tile in the garage. We have been using the boxes of tile as a flat surface to put things on. I'm not sure where everything will go, but I'll start with putting the ice chest back in the car. And because the floors had to be cleared, the washer and dryer are in the garage, too. I did laundry over the weekend, so we should be good for a while, but there's nothing like not having a working washer to make one think they need to do laundry.

Theo made a delicious Japanese lima bean curry for supper. A few years ago, I would not have thought I would like anything like that. But somehow, he fixes lima beans in a way that takes away their bitterness, and I like them. A lot. He has various lima bean recipes, and they're always good. Well, except for the lima bean-baked bean recipe. While it was well done, I just couldn't wrap my head around sweet lima beans.

And speaking of food, I made a pot of vegetable soup yesterday using up several things in the fridge. The soup was made with two things in mind. One was to use up the chicken broth, old carrots, and onions, and the other was to have some lighter, healthier food around. We have been eating even more take-out than usual recently, and while it tasted good, it was not the best nutrition for the calories we were consuming. Cooking regularly is difficult for us in the best of times, and these are not the best of times. We'll see if our new bright and shiny kitchen inspires us to cook more when it's done.

I feel very lucky to have these first-world problems when much of the rest of the world is suffering in one way or another. One which is being thoroughly documented before our eyes. 

Time to go clean up in the garage.

Until next time...