The morning light shows no signs of yesterday's horrendous dust storm. The sky is blue and clear and all evidence of yesterday's wind and driving dust are gone...except, of course, the broken branches and limbs and the fine coating of dust on every surface.
The high winds and consequential traffic signal malfunctions gave us reason not to venture out to the grocery store yesterday, so that will be on the agenda today. I have a need...OK, a desire...for fresh vegetables. I look forward to wandering among the cauliflower, broccoli, squash, peppers, etc. and selecting the ones that appear best suited to my tongue. My wife has a rationale for which store(s) we will visit, but she either choses not to share it with me or I simply don't understand. I simply tag along, not knowing why we're off to Tom Thumb instead of Central Market or vice versa. It doesn't matter. I just like vegetable-viewing. If I were more energetic, I'd be workin in my back yard, taking up large patches of St. Augustine grass and tilling the soil to make my garden. But, today, I don't have the energy and my arthritic hands and knees are rebelling even at the idea of such a thing.
I feel like taking a DART train for a ride today. DART is the acronym for Dallas Area Rapid Transit. The light rail trains are great, though there are very few routes, none of which are close by. There must be some people who live and work in the right places...places convenient to use mass transit. A ride toward downtown, stopping whenever something interesting comes into view strikes me as a good use of time today. I want to unwind. Or, I could return to writing my story about two middle-aged sisters who rob an elderly widow of her future. For some reason, the latter does not offer the "unwinding" that I want. I want to be deliberately and visibly lazy today. So why am I writing this? Why, indeed.
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We're going to be shopping for veggies today too! We're making an Indian meal for a friend tonight, and then the three of us are going to sit together and watch the Oscars. We're hoping Al Gore takes it for "An Inconvenient Truth."
In winter, vegetable shopping is an important part of coping. One of my favourite places to go is a smaller whole food store by the name of Foodsmith's in Perth, Ont. They have a lot of organic food and, in season, much of the produce is local. However, if I can't get there and I need to be surrounded by greenery for awhile, there's one of those superstore grocery places that has different lighting than usual... it seems to make the produce look very green, similar to the way it looks in the garden. I love going there to dawdle around. I pretend to be shopping -- and I do some of that -- but really, I'm just enjoying being in what looks a little like a pseudo vegetable garden. We did a vegetable trip on Saturday after our walk at the forestry centre. I made an Asian stirfry that evening. Tonight will be a vegetable curry with turmeric rice. Yay for Al Gore and AIT. I didn't watch the Oscars, but was very glad to hear that it won.
Robin Andrea, we did two trips and bought vast quantities of veggies. I'm set for vegetarian fare for a week! I'm delighted that Al Gore took the Oscar! Bev, I need to find a store like yours. The idea of curry with turmeric rice sounds like a very good one...I may concoct my own version.
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