Reflections of My Life

Sun is shining again this morning. This is getting to be a regular thing lately. I am planning on taking another walk this morning. I had a hard time going outside in the hot summer but now it is nice. Refreshes me a bit. I miss those long walks I did daily when I lived in the forest. Of course, I was not using a walker then. Probably hard to push it around in the forest and on the dirt road.
 

katlupe said:
Sun is shining again this morning. This is getting to be a regular thing lately. I am planning on taking another walk this morning. I had a hard time going outside in the hot summer but now it is nice. Refreshes me a bit. I miss those long walks I did daily when I lived in the forest. Of course, I was not using a walker then. Probably hard to push it around in the forest and on the dirt road.
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Beautiful here too Kat. 67 degrees. Just walked around our complex twice and got 1200 steps.
 
For some reason over the week-end I was craving a salad from the Italian restaurant ($10 for small $16 for large). Now I rarely want food from a restaurant but I was. So instead on Monday I ordered the ingredients for the antipasto salad by copying the restaurant's ingredients for their salad. Then I made my own avocado oil Italian salad dressing. Well, the lettuce was in one of those plastic bags and it was horrible. I had to pick out the ones I would want to eat. Trashed the rest. The other things were good.........cucumber, grape tomatoes, red onion, hot pepper rings, black olives, provolone cheese, pepperoni & salami.

It was good but by Tuesday I did not really want it anymore. My craving was gone.

When I grew my own vegetables they were really good. Right from the garden I would make a salad. The produce in the grocery stores is tasteless, old and cost too much for a poor quality product. Luckily that was just a passing fancy...........craving something I remembered from another time. Probably in my own homestead kitchen. I do not believe there are any nutrients in the produce sold in the stores. They package everything in plastic so it develops condensation inside the bag or container. Even for Rabbit I have to pick through every lettuce leaf to find the good ones!

After my bunny boy passes away I will not even look at produce anymore. If I have to have a vegetable it will be in the frozen food department. Those are usually picked fresh and frozen immediately. Not traveling in a truck across the country before they are ripe.
 
I know around here the selection of frozen fruit is kinda lousy and expensive. The veggies are a little better. I prefer canned. I drain the juice off before serving.
 
I can't believe it is Friday already. A week flies by for me anymore. I had to turn my heat on this morning because it was cold. I don't know the temperature because I have stopped checking it. I am not checking on the weather anymore. If my table feels cold to touch then I turn the heat on. Today I will get the stuff from my storage locker that I use to weather proof my windows. Not going to cover everything yet but at least the windowsill.

Our maintenance man has been doing a great job of keeping the halls and public rooms clean and vacuumed. He is not here every day. So when he comes back it is all dirty again. In just one day! Adults live here, no children. If they drop something on the floor or the ramp they do not pick it up. Some people moving in and another person getting rid of some furniture so it left tracks on the carpet in the hall. And crumbs and little bits of things. Just left it.

I can just imagine what their apartments look like. Like when they do laundry they bring it in to the laundry room in the huge black garbage bags because they have not done it in a long time. That explains how they have time to hang out at the picnic tables all day long. I do not have the time to do that even if I wanted to. Well different people, different lifestyles.
 

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