Seasonal Sundays (Week 19)
Welcome to Seasonal Sundays ...
And thence the virus divides us again.
First, those amongst essential jobs in addition to those amongst ane job, to remain home. Those infected who survived in addition to the undercounted 66,445 who did not. Those whose jobs disappeared in addition to those zooming through the move day.
But at nowadays looms the (We're Not) Great (At All) Divide. Those who turn down masks in addition to those who curvature over sewing machines to gain masks. Those willing to surrender the "old in addition to the infirm" in addition to those desperately fighting for the lives of all, the Littles, the Middles in addition to the Olds. Those hellbent to show that "It's all over! Let's croak to the beach! I demand a haircut!" in addition to those who brain the worry inwards the words in addition to sense of the healthcare, world wellness in addition to infectious illness people.
When did this croak virtually sides? left in addition to right? bluish in addition to red? us in addition to them? rich in addition to poor? community well-being in addition to private rights? free-thinking combat in addition to gun control? scientific discipline in addition to politics? faux information protected yesteryear costless spoken communication in addition to expertise silenced yesteryear faux power?
"We're All In This Together" is increasingly – mayhap ever – a faux platitude.
God assist us.
Stay well. Stay safe. Stay strong.
About the Photo By Popular Request, a Little Insight into the Top Image
I telephone scream upward this icon "Wondering". That's Luka the resident toy-chaser at the window where I read inwards the morning, gathering myself to greet the day. In This Moment, the window signifies the dubiety of these adjacent few weeks. What is out there, awaiting us? What IS out there, yesteryear the familiar fields in addition to the former pear tree ...
For Luka, it's the nemesis chipmunks. For me it's the birds that feed at the novel feeder my sweetness married adult man built in addition to fills each day. This week, the neighborhood turkey hen who comes to feed has been stalked yesteryear a huge tom inwards total strut, his tail feathers on display, gobbling for her attention.
Did you lot know that a turkey's caput changes color from bluish to crimson to white throughout the day? Blue = Excited. Red = Stressed. Calm = White.
What is your caput color correct now? And what is out there? Only fourth dimension shall tell.
PICK ONE
Pick One is for those of us overwhelmed yesteryear life's unending choices. If that resonates, thence banking concern jibe out this ane recipe in addition to thence telephone scream upward it a day. It's ane that I call upward could brand the most difference, the ane I promise volition croak a regular inwards your kitchen, equally it is inwards mine.
The easiest of all tardily tacos, open-faced similar a, well, open-faced sandwich. I especially appreciate how it's tardily to brand only ane or two, using bits in addition to bobs of leftovers. The beans themselves are fabulous ...
- RECIPE Oaxaca Tlayuda (Flat Tacos) Easy, salubrious build-your-own crispy baked tortillas.
Compliments!
- "We didn't receive got to worry virtually the leftovers because nosotros ate the whole thing!" bookworks
- THE RECIPE Big Cajun Chopped Salad
Cook. Eat. Repeat.
Here's my appeal for mealtime minimalism, the view that you lot don't receive got to call upward up a novel breakfast or a novel luncheon every day. It's a way to think less virtually nutrient rather than more. It's maintains that the ritual of salubrious satisfying staples tin lavatory fill upward you lot upward inwards a way that the novel in addition to the novel cannot.
One of the verrrrry easiest things inwards my repertoire ...
- THE RECIPE Slow Cooker Shredded Beef Tacos So handy to receive got on hand!
Something for the Soup Pot
Serve it hot or cold, such gorgeous color.
Thoughts & Musings
SAVING GRACE The weeks are f-l-y-i-n-g by, zippppppping past. It's deep-clean kitchen twenty-four hours in addition to thence whoosh, it's deep-clean kitchen twenty-four hours again. One reason? My telephone minutes are way-way-way up. Every day, I verbalize to my dad who's only a pair of miles away downward the route inwards lockdown (still virus-free thence far, the travail they croak through is amazing). And every day, I croak far a betoken to verbalize to someone whose vocalism I haven't heard for way besides long. (Hello, LyndaBell!) Try it, if you're non already!
GATHERING HOUR The St. Louis bound is thence lovely, nosotros pass a lot of fourth dimension inwards the dorsum yard especially belatedly inwards the day, correct earlier dinner. Give me ii spectacles of vino in addition to ooops, we'll gain "dinner" tomorrow thence I've switched to tall spectacles of vino spritzers, some red, some ginger ale or fifty-fifty water.
THE BIRDS Our backyard birds are out inwards total force, thanks to my sweetness husband. His birdhouses are busy amongst nest-building, including a pair of wrens inwards a picayune Finnish "mokki" menage exterior my component window. His automobile body is the "bird nutrient storage" at the minute in addition to he keeps the feeders stocked. He switched to a cardinal-friendly blend in addition to whoah, the cardinals! I counted nine males at ane point! Last night, a woman mortal key spent a goodness one-half lx minutes inwards a tree bough only higher upward our heads, working amongst twigs in addition to strings.. We wondered if she were edifice a nest or only settling inwards to roost for the night.
THE HUMMERS! My brother-in-law is the manly mortal monarch of hummingbirds, dozens at a time. We started getting fly-bys virtually 10 days agone at nowadays but thence far, alone come across ane at a fourth dimension at the feeders.
GENIUS Whoever packs that some-assembly-required slice of furniture into boxes is a total genius, thence much condensed into such a pocket-sized space. Too bad that the same attending isn't paid to the assembly instructions ... from a major company, the telephone issue is bad (12 digits instead of 10, really?) in addition to fifty-fifty the website address. Wish me luck, ii pieces to go.
GRATITUDE Three thank you lot for Stuckmeyers Farm Market & Greenhouse who yesterday went out of their way to fill upward a large constitute guild from ii lists, neither ane peculiarly well-organized, all amongst careful, thought-through social-distancing ... telephone scream upward us grateful. St. Louisans here, brand the trip to Fenton. Good people, goodness product, GREAT service.
REQUIRED READING COVID ICU nurse, Julianne Nicole, a long some times gruesome read but worth it. One passage: "A lot of people receive got asked me what it’s similar here. I really don’t receive got adequate descriptors inwards my vocabulary, attempt equally I might, thence I’ll defer to the metaphor of fire. We are attempting to issue ane fire, piece iii to a greater extent than are cropping up. Then nosotros discovery out a calendar week or ii afterward that nosotros unknowingly threw gasoline on ane fire, because there’s all the same thence much nosotros don’t know virtually this virus. Then all of a abrupt there’s no H2O to combat the strength out with. We’re running only about asset H2O ice cubes inwards an travail to issue an inferno. Oh yeah, in addition to the entire fourth dimension you’ve been inwards this burning building, you lot barely receive got what you lot demand to protect yourself."
HISTORY IN THE MOMENT Meet American historian in addition to history professor Heather Cox Richardson in addition to her nightly newsletter, Letters from an American. It's an exploration of the day's events inwards the low-cal of history in addition to how history may live written inwards the future. It's ever illuminating inwards some unexpected way. My married adult man sailed through her novel book, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, in addition to the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (affiliate link) in addition to it's at nowadays at the top of my non-fiction to-read stack.
THINGS I LEARNED DURING THE SHUTDOWN Two people croak through 10 pounds of apples inwards a pair of weeks, that's only ane apple tree a twenty-four hours each, no allotment, no rationing, only what nosotros croak through.
THINGS I WISH WERE OTHERWISE Trader Joe's curbside pickup. Easy access to yeast, eggs in addition to ginger ale. But they're also sooo pocket-sized in addition to inconsequential, versus, you lot know, the shortages of PPE for healthcare workers on the front end draw in addition to testing in addition to tracing for the remainder of us ...
AMPHIBIOUS AMUSEMENT For 10 minutes of hilarity, play this video from the St. Louis Zoo to position nearby frog calls exterior only earlier dark, thence hold off for those nearby frogs to respond!
THE SCENT OF SPRING The locust trees inwards bloom ...
Soups & Salads Especially for May
- THE COLLECTION Seasonal Soup & Salad Recipes for May, tons of ideas!
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