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Another great diet item on my menu.
This is mine. On a bed of fresh and well washed raw spinach leaves, put cooked beetroot cubes, diced, hard-boiled egg, walnuts and diced apples, previously soaked in fresh lemon juice. Serve with a raspberry vinaigrette. The flavor explosion is something else. This is a low cost meal that give a wealth of protein, fibre and a load of essential minerals.
Diet menu
I had a very nice lunch today. Smoked salmon over a bed of cos lettuce and grated celariac with a drizzle of fresh lemon juice for a dressing. Total cost? About $3. And yes, this is Western Canada and we do have an awesome resource in salmon.
Fall clean up
I have been busy all day tidying the yard. I had chunks of tree to cut down as I have two Mayday trees, (Prunus family), and they have been infected with Black Knot fungus. It means cutting out the infected branches periodically. I did a lot in spring, before the leafed out, but I see it has come back. The areas are high and this calls for the pole pruner. It has to be done or the fungus will girdle the branch and cause a die-off so the branch is toast anyhow.
Aside from this, we took a trip into Canadian Tire to see what offers they had going on plants. Picked up a barberry bush, a hosta, a coral bells, a chrysanthemum, two lilies, an ivy and a sage plant. Some of these will be for inside, but I got all the outside plants spudded in. I also planted the hydrangea I had on my deck as I know it will not survive the winter otherwise. There was a nice spot where a rose had died, so it was just perfect. I was hoping for some more ferns, but these were all gone. Still, next week might bring some more reductions and I would like some more shrubs around the fence. The cats really like shrubs. This is their area of privacy, where they can spy on the flying munchables.
Perhaps tomorrow I will get more tree cut down and clear out my deck planters. The frost has been coming at night and the annuals are dying, so might as well get it done now. I would also like to do some weeding as I haven’t been able to get on the beds because of the constant rain/t-showers. Methinks I might cheat and spray some round-up on the bad areas.
Snippets
Bongs.
I have a little non- fiction piece up on readwave at the moment. It is a capsule in time and my recollections of then as it happened. This is through the eyes of an eight-year -old child and this is the perspective. I am well aware that putting it up in a public domain mean the first rights are shot and it is unsaleable.
It seems readwave have gotten themselves a lot of staff readers. They all seem to have zeroed in on my harmless little idly. After a slurry of suggestions for vamping the piece up, which would be appropriate if it were fiction and for sale, I post that it is non-fiction and on a non-fiction page. The very next comment I get is ‘is this non-fiction?’ Face palm.
There was also the interesting grammatical correction seriously suggesting I put a comma in front of the word ‘that’. Had I used ‘which’ I would have understood the need for a comma. One wonders if this person’s mind has ever been violated by Strunk and White, or the Chicago Manuel of style. Perhaps not.
Speech may be silver, but sometimes silence is golden.
Dissolving Bankers into fits of giggles.
My visa is about to expire so I called my bankers today to activate my new card. Ok, so I admit I am bad and this gets worse if I have to do boring things. I love my bank, but boring this was as they had been instructed to give a long sales pitch to make me agree to pay 99c per month to protect my balance in case of death/dismemberment/redundancy, et al. I tried three times to explain that I kept my card instantly paid off and my balance was always zero. Off the spiel would rattle again and my badness was now activated by boredom. I took one last shot.
“Hon, when I pop my clogs with a zero balance, which I always have, it is hardly going to cause the bank any grief.”
That did it. She tried very hard to repress it and couldn’t. The giggles permeated the rest of the conversation. It is always great to see bankers have a very human side.
Memories.
My mother once told me of the time she shared with other girls living in a house where there were all roomies. All of them were young and inexperienced. They acquired a cat, a ginger tom and took him to the vets to be fixed.
Now imagine this older man trying to explain, in very polite and politically correct terms that the wretched cat was neither one thing, or the other and therefore couldn’t be fixed. That must have been something else.
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Starting to get a little excited.
I have an awesome cover and now am waiting to the edits to come in. I have waited a very long time for Shadow Over Avalon to be taken up, so yes, I am excited. That it will be going live near on or near Halloween is even better.
Imagine a future word where things that go bump in the night rule. This is what the returned king must face. He pledged his soul to protect his people at the time of their greatest need, but he didn’t sign up for this terror. When King Arthur returns to fulfill his oath, many things stand on their heads. Who is a friend and who is not? The stakes will determine who lives and who dies. With the fate of humanity resting in his hands, he can’t fail, or can he? This is what happens next.
To be released by Kristall Ink in October, the witching month. Stay tuned for updates.
