monday at home, again
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OK I’ve been eating way too much sugar and white flour the last month and I need to slow my roll a little. So for the next few weeks, guess what, I’m going to try and reduce my sugar and white flour and eat more whole grains. So take that, frozen brownies in the freezer! For lunch today I made Deb Perelman’s asparagus and egg salad w/walnuts and mint on a delicious old world rye loaf I scored from a local bakery called Breadshop. You go to their website and choose a day and time that’s available and it let’s you know what type of bread they’ll have. You order and pay for your bread online and at the appointed hour you pull into their parking lot and someone brings your loaf to the car. It’s the most complicated loaf of bread I’ve ever eaten but it’s local and delicious, and I hope they are doing enough business to keep things going.
Yesterday I painted a wood bench that sits on my lanai. It was an old bench that was being thrown away so hubby and I brought it home and ripped out the old seat cushions. I have a hodge podge of outdoor furniture or as I like to call it, assembled over time, and paint them all the same pale garden green, which makes them more cohesive.
The weather is beautiful today so I’ll definitely be in the garden. The orchids are so lovely and colorful, and the lilikoi or passion fruit vines have also taken over my fence and starting to flower. The vines can go crazy and over take everything but I love the sweet tart fruit so I let them ramble over the summer and then cut them back in fall. The little surinam cherries are very tart and I make a firm cherry paste that is delicious served with cheese and bread.
The weather is starting to get warmer so I thought this would be a good time to go through my wardrobe and swap out jackets and the like for cooler summer pieces. The last few summers I have been enjoying linen. It’s cool and the modern linen is not stiff like it used to be. It’s just starting to pop up online in a few of my favorite online stores like JCrew, Everlane, & Boden. I’m also on the search for a summer dress. It’s difficult to find one that has the right scale because I’m short so I end up looking frumpy or like a child. The search continues.
I’ve been listening to an excellent bookish podcast called Diving In. The hosts Louise and Virginia are from Australia and life long friends who love books. They’re descriptions and banter are delightful and it’s such a pleasure to listen to. I recently listened to an episode about Nancy Mitford and her eccentric family that was interesting so I’m now reading The Sisters, The Saga of the Mitford Sisters and next reading Nancy’s novel The Pursuit of Love.
I hope your week will be a good one. Stay safe and stay in. xo Kai
