Amusings

fresh lima beans from the youth garden at the farmers' market / oh you have to shell them the young ladies tell me so i say i grew up shelling peas and beans / i bought them all / to have with boiled red potatoes

maybe next week they will have fava beans / i remember these from Italy / during fava bean season you can go to a ristorante or trattoria and order a big steamed pot of fava beans fragrant with olive oil and garlic and herbs and you shell them yourself / the waiter puts a bib around your neck

today there are apples from the mountains / these are the apples that are so crisp sweet and delicious you will never again eat an apple from new zealand / unless you are actually in new zealand during apple harvest / shine these apples and they glow like rubies or like ripe pomegranate berries / at home my daughter makes apple/pomegranate juice but i made celery carrot tomato juice / all local produce organically grown in our little oasis

high desert honey too

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whle recovering from fever i sat in bed with my laptop and watched a movie / this is notable on several counts / one is that i gave up going to the movies many years ago for reasons or non-reasons that may or may not be explained at some other time / i have not gone to the theatre in years / i chose to watch The Talented Mr Ripley because i read the Patricia Highsmith book when it was published in 1955 and i had read the following Ripley books and recently re-read them all / i am a Patricia Highsmilth fan

i was curious as to how this story was presented in the cinema

hmmm / quite a few more characters and embellishments / murders in your lap a bit too much to take / i like the dvd format / so much easier than fussing with the video machine so you end up not knowing how to switch back to the television set

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i slightly overboiled the potatoes so i threw in some cream and butter and mashed them up a bit / i have to go now / i absolutely do not want to overboil the baby lima beans

ciao