Treasure hunt

On Saturday I ate outside. It was another sunny day, and I think it was the warmest day this year so far: 13 degrees C!

I worked a bit in the garden removing the dead leaves and pine needles on the path and in the garden. It was a mystery what the garden beds were for and if they were cultivated ever; I visited the house for the first time only in December…

Armed with a rake, I worked out slowly outside. Sometimes the layers were multiple, the leaves beginning to compost already as they turned black and moist. Sometimes flavors like minth or thym came out flavoring the air. Several labels for flowers were lost in the soil, Unfortuntely I don’t think anything will blow from those spots anymore.

But as I was removing these pines and leaves I begun to find greens, and yellows, and whites… and germinated things growing up! A treasure hidden under the organic matter from the fall… Good that I released them before the last snow of the year – well, hopefully the last one: again a thin white cotton layer of snow woke me up this morning….

Eggs

Look what I got from a colleague of mine:

Chicken and duck eggs, from her backyard! I will definitly put my vegan status aside for some days to be officially a vegetarian! Anyway, it was already half way through with the cheese….

I heard in fact that eggs are washed in the US, with soap, enzyme or chlorine…. and this is why eggs need to be refrigerated here. In contrast, in other part of the world (Europe and Singapore, at least), eggs are stored at room temperature. The tricky part in the US is that you need to be careful that the eggs you buy do not “sweat”, because washing the eggs destroys the layer that protects pathogens to enter through the shell. The humidity created by a change of external temperature will facilitate exchanges of organisms on the membrane or the eggs.

Well, combined with the ratatouille leftover, the next meal was delicious!

Day 35 – surviving well

My days are rhythmed by four – pardon me – five main activities: sleeping, working out, eating, working, and… social mediaying. So because I am alone, it might be easy to think that I can make all these things great…. I am trying.

I don’t talk much about my work, that’s not the place.

I don’t talk about sleeping, I usually do this pretty well, apart from the 2 last night, who knows why…

I talk a lot about working out… and I’ll add I another suberb run from this morning:

7:00 AM

Eating, it has been a while that I didn’t show my new meals “tendance”… Here are they!

Greens and soup, as usual, but also vegan-with-cheese-spaghetti-sauce-tomate, vegan-without-cheese longuines with garlic, leaks, and pine nuts; a test with Lima white beans with tomatoes – EXCELLENT! – ratatouille, and snow balls… for desert. Bon appétit!

Duck story

It was as if Nature was relieved from yesterday’s anger. The storm was huge and strong, I could hear the trees bending, blowing and dancing in the wind, and the rain striking on the window nets in the green house. The beginning of the night was scary, but I was fortunate enough to have heat repared that same afternoon and felt so comfy in my bed, waiting for the calm after the tempest.

I went for a run, in this calm and relaxed atmosphere. The morning was gorgous: no cloud, so clear, warm… relieved.

Suddenly, they came from my left, quite low in the sky, 2 of them, like F16 fighter jets aircraft coming fast and straight! Then the one on the right slowly bumped into the one on the left, requesting a change of direction. They turned, flew over to the left and turned again, coming back towards me. They turned like this with one of them showing the way, as if it was giving instruction, passing a message about where to go, or maybe it was telling a story?

I followed them few minutes, until these two ducks disappeared… in their playground…

Day 26 – Sunday evening

I prepared a nice “green” dinner plate tonight. A potato with Bruxelles’ sprouts, and asparagus. A green plate. With a glas of red wine, to get a bit warmer…

I had a nice 16 km run this morning – I am a bit ahead of my training for the half marathon, good! – so I enjoyed a brunch with a kind of Greek salad and a beer, coffee after lunch on the terrace, and I just took time. Nothing special. Reading, screening (:) ), working – quite a lot and efficiently actually – listening to music, well, living a slow day …

But I think the furnace is down again… and that’s bad news for a Sunday evening, it is as if I am living again the same day, again!! Hence, a glas of wine, before going to bed, I am keeping the wood for a nice fire tomorrow!

All in a week

Last week was spring. Sunny, warm, I ate twice in the terrace for lunch, the light was bright and had this summer flavor.

Then we had full moon.

And everything went in a hurry, as if every single entity wanted to show off before real spring, everyday we could get another atmosphere: stars and blue sky were first but they were probably too shiny, so guess what? Everybody came: clouds, rain, wind, storm, snow, ice, rain again, wind again, clouds again, and today? SUN!! But I believe it was a long long week for lots of people, as power outrage touched thousands of houses in the area.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Day 25 – 432 Hz

Do you hear ?

It might be at the vibration frequency of 432 Hz. I can’t be sure, but if you pay attention you can hear whispering… This is the frequence everything in nature seems to harmonize. The same than the OM humans are chanting.

What I am sure is that things are happenning: they are waiting, developing, growing, sometimes even dare to be seen! They adapt to the environment, elongate, change direction, displace what is on the way to be able to grow up. They also change color, slowly passing from white to a bright green, passing by yellow…

They have names. Thym was the first to show up, most probably because the seeds were sooo small. But Tomato is coming, a bit behind Oregan and Basil, well I hope they do not practice social distancing too much!

I can’t wait to see which story they will tell!

Odors

Obviously, ”stay-at-home” doesn’t mean “starve-at-home”, and I am sure that many houses were organizing festive dinner tonight… You know this nice odor of meat melting on a barbecue pit? That odor was following me all over my run!

After having procrastinating almost all day and postponing the Sunday training schedule, I finally went out running the 12 km a bit late in the afternoon. I know I should not procrastinate anymore: running is bringing me so much goodness that I must really continue to do it in the morning to benefit 200% from this energy; (I knew it already, but this is like vaccination, sometimes you need to get another shot!);

Because I was smelling this nice odors of grilled meat and wooden fire from the several houses that I passed, I know that I don’t have, yet, the coronavirus… as some studies have been published showing that smell and taste loss would be one of the first symptoms of the patients… (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200403115117.htm).

I was a bit too early though to catch a perfect sunset, but the sky was still magical tonight. And because I am still having my mouth feeling that meat on the fire, I will eat the 2 eggs that were waiting in the fridge since I did the chocolate cake (and had to buy a 6 tier egg pack). Forget about vegan tonight!!