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Simple Sunday

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It is so humid. The temperature isn’t all that bad but the cloud cover is making it very humid. ugh….

We had a good walk this morning but again somewhat busy. I suppose they will fall away by fall. ( ha!!! pun!!) No really, most people don’t keep going past summer. AH wasn’t there again so that’s kinda weird.

Tomorrow, Monday is the day I don’t walk or usually do any exercise. I just need a break. I still wake up early (5am) but lay there looking out the window.

I went to the Anytime gym this morning and it was not too busy. After that, I went over to Target to pick up a couple of tank tops to sleep in. It’s so hot but I still need something to hold the jugs in. Whew,….TMI…

So I came home and made zucchini bread with the farm zucchini.

I still have 3 more so I may make one tomorrow to freeze. Tonight I’m defrosting a cheese lasagna and I’ll make a farm salad. It’s so hard to cook right now in this heat. We’ve been eating sandwiches and salads. Hopefully, it’ll be better this week.

I think the Martha Stewart recipe is better.

My brother came over to visit. His birthday is this week. He’ll be 60 and still works a very physically demanding job but really looks great. He takes really good care of himself. Unlike me ,who loves wine, he doesn’t drink very often because he’s diabetic. Still ,it’s only him and me now. I dont’ count the half sister as she only let herself be known a few years ago after the adoption papers were unsealed. This is a very touchy subject with me since my mother did not want the adoption known but NJ laws allowed it to be released 50 years later. This period of our lives was so awful. My mother was pregnant ( and told me, it was a tumor, really, how stupid do she think I was)??. She was a relapsed Catholic and never got over the guilt. Then 1 month to the day Philip was killed in VietNam. ( January 7 ,1968. She never really recovered and died 10 years later. So I have a lot of baggage attached to this. Still, she is quite weird. I personally don’t want anything to do with her but my brother feels, I think, obligated. Oh well, I don’t want to say more.

Here are some flowers from the garden.

Here’s how the pantry looks with the newly added vegetable soup.

Simple Sunday

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Finally, we’re getting some sunshine. We need it to dry things up some. Of course, 4 months from now we’ll all want some rain. But I am looking forward to a warm and sunny week.

The meeting the half-sister and her husband went well. They are nice people. They have traveled quite extensively so that was interesting. I still don’t feel any warm and fuzzy feelings but I’ m like that so maybe it’s just me. She had a privileged upbringing which is certainly more than I can say about ours. I guess it was Gov. Chris Christie that opened adoption papers after 50 years in NJ and that’s how she started looking.

I doubt I will go out of my normal ‘Hi and how are you’ with her but she is nice as I said. I’m sure when I fly back east, she’ll come up to Connecticut to visit.

I still haven’t decided when to go but maybe June?

I went to the gym and then to Goodwill and found some Legos for my daughters’ Library program. Plus a couple of nice T-shirts for me that were probably new without tags. I also picked up a Moosewood cookbook for a little inspiration.

Dinner is something with potatoes as I have a bag I got at Costco and maybe some chicken/tofu.

Well, I’m going to do my Yoga and then take a nap!!!