rinse & repeat

Good morning. I hope your week is going well. Yesterday I did my rounds of calling and checking in with friends and family. They all involve what we ate, what we watched, and what we read. Rinse & repeat. I’ve got lots of kale in the garden so we’ve been looking for new ways to incorporate them into meals. Today was the most unusual one with a peanut butter & greens sandwich from Lukas Volker’s new cookbook called Start Simple. I know it sounds strange but it was delicious.

I did an online yoga class and gave myself a pedicure. With my tremor, I end up getting the nail polish on my toes as well as my nails, but I find that once it’s dry, it comes off my skin easily so don’t worry about trying to do it perfectly. I let it dry and after I took my evening shower, it rubbed right off.

We’ve been watching After Life on Netflix. It stars Ricky Gervais as a husband who lost his wife to cancer and his efforts to grieve and create a new life without her. It is sad, but also has humor and is very heart warming. Unorthodox is another good one to check out.

Today is a beautiful day so I’ll be potting up a new calamansi lime tree. I’ve run out of room in my garden for any trees so I’ll plant it in a large container and see how it does there. I have a meyer lemon and lime tree and use them almost every day that they are fruiting, so I thought it would be interesting to give this new variety a try. They are tiny fruits and from what I’ve read they are a cross between a lime and a kumquat. It’s wonderful seeing all the home gardening that has been going on lately. Even the smallest thing like regrowing scallions from cuttings in a cup of water is rewarding.

We still have a ways to go but it looks like there are little bits of light at the end of the tunnel, with cities trying to plan ways for resuming some activities. Hang in there and be well.

P.S. - The FDA approved a new medication for Parkinson’s ONGENTYS (opicapone) for off periods.