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Getting to Know You
Some of my blogging friends have had the good idea to post a getting to know you type post, for new readers due to NaBloPoMo. So, here are a few things about me. How about you? What is your perfect day?
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Friday Randomness
Let’s see if I regret using up several random type items in one post during NaBloPoMo. I have a couple more recipes and book reviews for you, so we’ll see what happens after that. For now, I will keep today’s post to 5 items. One of our local Little Free Libraries has been converted to a food pantry for those losing SNAP benefits due to the government shutdown. I hate this. I mean, it’s a great idea, but I hate that it’s come to this. Thankfully, my county is handing out pre-loaded debit cards to folks that get SNAP, so at least there’s that. My decluttering project continues. I gave…
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Sweet Potatoes with Curried Lentils
Sometimes it is really, really difficult to figure out what the heck to make for dinner. Thankfully, Suzanne searches the internet for inspiration, and then posts about her ideas for what they might eat. She recently linked to this recipe, which is originally vegan, though I used yogurt instead of coconut milk near the end. I think you could use regular milk or something else instead of coconut milk in the lentils as well, if you don’t want to buy a can and then only use 1/2 cup. I didn’t like throwing away the rest of the can but wasn’t sure I would use the rest of it. I think…
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Photo of the Day
Normally this picture would not warrant its own post, but I did say that my posts might get a little random during NaBloPoMo, right? So here we are. We live very close to a rapid transit station (BART), and you can see the mailbox in the background, which is where I mail letters and postcards and such. Yesterday I had a couple of things to mail, so I stopped by on my morning walk. Then I came across this tableau. A brand new walker, tag still attached, leaning against a bench. What’s the story? Does the fact that it appears to be wet underneath the bench mean anything? Was someone…
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Upcoming Reads and Foux du Fafa
Sunday, Maya and I went to the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland to Foux du Fafa around. That is what we call it when we want to just walk around a neighborhood, maybe have a meal or a drink, do some window shopping, etc. Our more specific goal for this day was for Maya to see the temporary location of one of our favorite bookstores, as they are in the process of rebuilding their old location that was destroyed in a fire last year. We started out with lunch at a pub with a nice outdoor patio. We enjoyed watching a dad party (4 young dads with their babies) and several…
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Wave
Wave ~ Sonali Deraniyagala A woman, her husband, their kids, her parents, her friend and her friend’s mom are vacationing in Sri Lanka, where she grew up, in late December, 2004. Looking from the hotel window, she can see that something is wrong with the ocean. At first she is curious, then she realizes that something is very wrong, and she and her husband grab the kids and start to run. They run past her parents’ hotel room without stopping to warn them, and they make it to a jeep, where they pile in and drive for safety. The tsunami wave overtakes their car and they are separated. She is…
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Salmon Farro Bowl with Honey Mustard Dressing
For NaBloPoMo, I may decide to do some kind of ‘getting to know you’ post soon for new readers, but this is not that post. Instead, this is a very lazy post, a recipe for a delicious meal we recently enjoyed. It seems pretty adaptable. Don’t like salmon? Sub in another fish, chicken, or even tofu. Don’t like mustard? Try a dressing you do like. Want to add tomatoes, like I did? Go for it. We really enjoyed this meal, it will be making a reappearance soon. Original recipe here. Salmon and Farro Bowl with Honey Mustard Dressing Ingredients Directions Preheat oven to 425°F. Bring water, farro, and 1 teaspoon…
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Mixing it Up
Earlier this year, I had a bone density scan, and was diagnosed with osteopenia. Not a shock, my grandmother broke her hip at 40, and I think I had osteopenia the first time I had a bone density scan almost 20 years ago. But now that I’m approaching 60, I’m finally getting a bit more serious about things I should have been doing for the last 20 – 30 years. Mostly that means being consistent about strength training. Last November, I started doing Caroline Girvan trainings 5 days a week. I’ve chosen the 15 to 20 minute workouts, and mostly I used 5 lb hand weights, though I have increased…
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Friday Randomness
Happy Halloween! The decorations at this house were not nearly as charming as skeletons playing banjos or ghosts on swings, but wow, it did scare me a bit when I came around the corner and saw it. Creepy. I don’t have a lot of randomness this week, but I did take some pictures. I went to the farmers’ market last weekend and got some berries and tomatoes. And apparently took pictures only of things I did not buy. I went to the weekly protest, which was much smaller than the big No Kings protest, but still about 125 – 150 people. Inspired by Diane’s post in which she has been…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Dinners Last Week
Suzanne often posts about her meal plan for the week, with helpful links to recipes. I am generally not that organized, but we did have some yummy food last week, and I’m here to tell you about it. Sunday, Ted made a truly delicious Salade Nicoise (link is to a recipe I posted a few years ago, and the picture looks a lot more like Ted’s), with tomatoes, lettuce, potatoes, fresh tuna, eggs, and green beans from the Farmers’ Market. I think the only things we had to buy at the grocery store were avocado and Sauvignon blanc, as we already had olives at home. I didn’t take a picture…
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Friday Randomness
Another Friday, another brain dump of randomness. Look at the crowd in the drone photo taken of our local No Kings rally last Saturday! The crowd is estimated to be between 8,500 – 10,000, which is amazing, especially as there were even larger crowds in Oakland and San Francisco, and that our neighboring town had their own large crowd. I counted this as my CBWC walk for that day, though honestly I didn’t walk much because it was so crowded. I took pictures, but they sucked because of so many people, so here are some fun photos from the professional photographers that shared their photos on our local Indivisible FB…
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Wordless Wednesday
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Friday Randomness
You know, I’ve been thinking about NaBloPoMo this year. Some years I have a theme, like A – Z, or book reviews. Other years I wing it. And there have been plenty of times over the last 20 years that I haven’t participated at all. But these Friday Randomness posts are a whole lot of stupidness, and that is exactly the vibe I’m looking for this year. So I’ll be posting every day in November, and trying to read fellow NBPM blogs, and just putting my brain dump of stupidness into daily posts instead of combining them into one post a week. I plan to keep my posts short, too,…
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(Almost) Wordless Wednesday
Driving to San Francisco on Saturday, I had the opportunity to flip off the supremely ugly Salesforce Tower after reading that morning that CEO Marc Benioff suggested that the National Guard would be welcome as a police presence in San Francisco. He has since walked that back…a bit.
