we've been Googled

we received this e-mail :

Hello Katherine,
A very synchronistic turn of events had me smilling ear to ear this morning to find myself looking at your blog. This is _______ I came through Moab a couple of years ago now with _______ and her daughter...our VW had broken down and we were fortunate enough to be in the best of all possible places to break down. a magical place.

I've been living in South Korea for the past year and a half teaching English and trying myself on in a new and so very different culture.
My time here is winding down. In three weeks I'll go back to Canada to study for my bachelor of education. I've been waking up sweating at night at the thought of returning to school....formality vs. freedom.... ouch!
I know I want education part of my future in some capacity but I am certain it will have nothing to do with the public school system...so it will be a year of jumping through the hoops to get the credentials I need to open up more doors.
I'm interested in alternative school systems/workshop style learning environments, outdoor environmental education, and any kind of arts based learning.

Anyhow, I've been racked with indecision about this. I feel pulls in other directions...specifically toward India to persue yoga teacher training...but then there's this voice that says " just do this first"
So, sitting here behind a desk at my school in Jeollanamdo, South Korea, bored out of my skull because my classes are finished but I'm expected to stay until "clock out time",
I type " boredom indecision" into google.

Viola! up comes a link to your blog from november 29th 2004. I read and enjoyed for an hour and remembered what a fun time I had with you and Kaki and Doni. thank you again.

Just what I needed to hear.
I'm WILL celebrate my indecision! while I scoop up, gather in, slid through and spin around in this mad dance of an existence.
The path I choose is the path that chooses me!
Thank you skaterina!So much playful wisdom in one blog washes over me.
Made my day!
Bright Blessings,
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we all had fun today

mrs foley got up at five and took the dogs out
skaterina fooled around at home / decided what to do today
like turn on the water for the vegetable garden

caterina made scrambled eggs with slightly carmelized vidalia onions in butter with an ample halping of colby/jack cheese

we were all set for the moab farmers market

we all together knew we wanted corn and carrots but no dont get anymore squash

our tomatoes are coming in now but oh well lets get a basket of sungold / a bunch of golden beets / a locally grown finocchio otherwise known as sweet anise or fennel

fancy that / the youth garden project is growing finocchio

i took some hot plum sauce and some pickled beets to the triassic stone people, scott and katy, and so later they brought me a frozen elk rump

that's all folks

i cant wait to read this ten years from now

Mrs Foley is in charge of burning bridges ~

~

she will also dispense with excess luggage

BAGGAGE

gin

a friend of mine calls gin "mothers milk"

hmmm

i like gin (Bombay and/or Bombay Sapphire) bc it is distilled from tasty aromatic botanicals

like coriander / lemon peel / angelica / licorice / juniper berries / and so on

it is a sugar free alcohol and does not set up sugar cravings like wine / beer / bourbon / tequila / and so on

i pay attention to sugar intake to avoid insulin rebounds that cause three day hangovers

i drink gin with sparkling mineral water and a tsp of frozen lime juice / plenty of ice cubes / big ones / like six of them in a low ball glass / short and wide

keep the gin in the freezer / gin drinks must be very very cold

(once in the winter i told someone i didnt drink gin in cold weather / he was so surprised / he never met anyone before who didnt drink something because it was winter / i said gin drinks have to be cold and icy and that is why they are so refreshing in hot weather and rather debilitating in cold weather)

you dont get that sticky in the mouth feeling when you wake up after a gin binge from the mineral water as you do with tonic / even the best tonic

tonic is afloat with sugars and fake flavors

now the curious thing is that one consumes a great deal of mineral water in relation to the amount of gin / say one ounce of gin to six ounces of water and melting ice

that old saying that if you drink as much water as you did alcohol before going to sleep you wont wake up dehydrated

so the gin and mineral water really is quite a bit like a purification or what i like to call a mental health drink

it is possible however to get a bit blitzed when overdoing the mental health part

and so i must report that i ordered a book of nine radio plays by an australian woman writer whose work fascinated me when i first discovered her twenty years ago / her name is elizabeth jolley / her work is surreal / exploring amazon.com while sipping mother's milk and mineral water i saw that she had written some radio plays and they are apparently a collectors' item for they are priced at $119.00

and yeah, i ordered them

dont know what i was thinking

curious i guess / in a mentally healthy way, of course

you can tell who the locals are ~~~

~~~
when it rains in the desert
the locals stand in the rain

fifth of july / an old memory

when i was a little girl i loved the books about The Bobbsey Twins

one year Nan and Bert and Freddie and Flossie were at the seashore for the 4th of July / they loved the fireworks

the next day it rained

Mr Bobbsey told them it always rains on the day after the fireworks because the fireworks shake up the sky / the clouds / the heavens

so, yeah, today it is raining in beautiful downtown Moab

every 4th of July i expect rain the next day and / guess what / i am seldom disappointed

the Dot watch

Dot is built like a dachshund / low slung on short little legs / pointy nose / ears that flop

but she is wearing a poodle suit

take off the curly black dreds and she would look like a dachshund or / yes / with the pointy nose /

a Weasel

smile

Dot is getting old / her vision is dim / her ears fade / she is not so quick to run after something or anything or for the sheer fun of it / trying to keep up with Bullet back in the day / trying to keep up with Dought / until lately

she is content to trot at my heels or close by my side or even in front a little

the two mile walk in the early morning / ah yes / she is still up for that / rolling out of her basket some mornings before i call her / a little slowed down and tired on the last stretch

to be cont.. . . . . ..... . . . ..... ..... . .. . . . .

Tomatoes 2006

every winter i say to destiny's tot

one more tomato season

please

2006 may be the One

wherein everything i have learned about growing tomatoes comes to full bloom / comes to fruition / comes to

Amazing Mojo for this year in tomato jam potential

details forthcoming

KitterZ the Perfect Cat*

when i was looking for a mouser someone was looking for a temporary home for his beloved

pearl grey with light markings / she has big eyes

how can i count the ways ?

she only eats kibble
only kibble / no other
human food item / oh
maybe a 1/4 sq of bacon
or ham / tempted by pork
products / but nothing else

my former cats never ate cat food / they ate raw meat
chicken livers greasy roasted chicken backs and necks

mice
rats

they loved warm cream on cool mornings / salmon / tuna / trout heads

KitterZ will have none of it
kibble makes her purr :
pricey wild caught salmon
"treat" turned up her nose

stinky she sez












*tempted by Purr.fect Kat / resisting

Skaterina ponders what to do with all the gin bottles

VVVVVVV

other topics include "

Caterina perfects her personal method of making ricotta

with a test run of ricotta made from half and half

thick rich creamy

we are having a cake of half and half ricotta set on a slosh of olive oil / this ricotta cake is about the size of a tennis ball squashed down a bit / strew with chopped fresh herbs like lemon thyme / sage / rosemany / chives

drizzle more olive oil

surround the mound of ricotta with variously sliced fresh zucchine / green and yello and a red pepper to boot / season with more drizzles of olive oil / sea salt and coarse ground black pepper

warm in oven to the degree of cookness or warmness or brownedness or overdoneness

feeling cheezy

in the box

cheddar / colbyJack

wedge of parmigiano

gob of port salut

amish blue cheeze crumbles

lurking about down below / not in the box

available at all times

a creamy mozzarrelllllllloooobufalo cheese

oh some mascarpone

homemade ricotta / made with half n half

Mrs Foley considers her future

when you no longer remember the past

everything else is the future

Caterina thinks we are not eating enough butter

she sees a recipe for an Indonesian spice cake that has 3 and 1/2 sticks of butter plus 3 more tablespoons of butter which is essentially nearly a half another stick

there goes your pound of butter

here's the curiosity : the batter is built of butter and flower and sugar and 7 eggs / 4 large and 3 large yolks

this is an eggy projcect but see here we have a lot of extra eggs this week and two of them are mighty duck eggs

and then the cake is baked in layers but not in different pans / first you pour a layer in a pan and bake for 20 minutes and when that is done slather on a TB of butter / pour in the next layer of batter and so on

cool a little before turning the pan over to let it out onto a plate then turn it over again after cooling so more so that the first layer you poured is on the bottom at serving time / cant wait to see what the texture of the different layers is like

oh first you must butter of course the pan and sprinkle a little flour on it so the cake wont stick

sooooo

we are curious to see the tekneek of making this cake / how it works out

stay tuned

mrs foley sez its fun getting old

its the other side of puberty, she sez

like you can feel it coming but you dont know what it gonna be like <.>

go
for
it

this blog needs a new theme

maybe like this :

A.J. Jacobs decided to read all of the Encylopedia Britannica in a quest to Know-It-All

he then wrote a book called The Know-it-All (of course) One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World

(it would be more interesting to actually read the Britannica oneself than read about someone else reading it so, no, i have not read his book, only skimmed)

this would be more like it : a young woman named Julie decided to work her way through Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking recipe by recipe one day at a time

she blogged the experience to the great delight of cooks and foodies everywhere / me one of her readers and admirers and oh shoot envied her for thinking of it first

so what will be our new theme ?

stay tuned

another blog ?

skaterina has a new blog somewhere else
there is a general hubub hubbubb ?
over who is going to be in charge of it ?

Mrs Foley reminds me that she is in charge of wardrobe as well as in charge of dementia

and that if she can go off by herself to another blog venue it would be good for her development / she has lots to report on walks about town dressed right / you know ? / not naked or in a bath robe / she doesnt own a bath robe / plus compressing or dissolving time is in harmony with .......

sunset collecting
view inspecting
cloud surveying
food purveying

but wait :

Caterina della Cucina is in charge of the kitchen / the purveying (smile) the foodiness and the EAT ART

now that Miss Tickle / she stays close to my heart

PEAS

i never grew peas before / kay planted them / two kinds / one with white flowers and one kind with cute little purple flowers / will the peas be purple ? asks the son.out.law

they are green / i harvested them all / shelled them as i did when i was a kid in the forties and sat on the stoop shelling big fat pea pods

cooked them quick / one minute / blanched in icecube water / dry on towel / pop into vacuum bag and seal 'em up

we only eat peas in my famly when we have Special Ocasion Mashed Potatoes / this will be some organzied (sic) holiday involving Big Meat

turkey / duck / roast pork / beef / you knowb
so we have enough peas put by for 5 Special Potato event

kay did the planting this year / although taken aback at first / bc i thought i was going to be in charge of the planting this year again / i restrained the snark

heh

well i never would have planted peas so i am glad kay did / reminded me of when alison came down from up north and planted the fava beans in the Happy Trail garden

those were my first homegrown fava beans / now, see, had i been planting this year we would have fava beans / oh yeah ?

at first i just picked a few tender young peas to have piselli funghi with linguini and cream and parmesan and pancetta / a dish i loved when i lived in Rome

so day by day i harvested the peas / they are a variety of sizes / i ponder sorting them by size / are you kidding / you did that once with little pearl buttons and then when your daughter was getting rid of stuff in your happy trail house she dumped ALL the jars / hundreds of buttons in each jar / five jars / each jar carefully and obsessively sorted by size from tiny to little to small to not so small and the

nevermind

Miss Tickle

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"~" is ethereal
without substance
a flicker of form to attract
the eye of the visionary
and that is all

"~" beyond imagination

"~" the UnKnowable

introducing MRS FOLEY

mrs foley is in charge of dementia

she knows how to dissolve time

she'll be here any now

you cant miss her

~~~~~~~~~~~~~

this is an excerpt from an Adventure in Controlled Schizophrenia

what began as a vision quest became a way of life

write something write anything

i was on an email list / one of the members wrote

write anything if you dont have anything to say

just write something

any.old.thing.........................................................