Frost again last night. Good grief, it’s only a week and a half to April; are we done yet?<\/p>
Emme came over for the afternoon, and she and I made a second, superior version of Ron’s sour cream chocolate cake. Candy gave me a 12-cup bundt pan, which is very helpful; I won’t have to hunt around for one now.<\/p>
Grandpa himself has been flattened the last 24 hours with severe back pain. I thought it was due to a too-soft mattress, so he slept on the hard mattress in the guest room\/office last night. He’s been sleeping a lot, almost 9 hours last night\/this morning alone. Yesterday, he took too many pain meds and slept for most of the afternoon.<\/p>
This morning, though, he told me he has a headache and stomach and intestinal problems in addition to muscle pain. Sounds like flu. He’s staying in bed and drinking clear fluids.<\/p>
He did put up two more tool hangars in the shed, which is fantastic: now all the garden tools have a place rather than being hung from nails or shoved into a corner.<\/p>
I’ve been doing a lot of cooking this week and plan to take today off. We have a lot of left-overs. I’ve made roast chicken and subsequently chicken pie; New England boiled dinner; fluffy omelette from Anna Belle Todd’s original recipe; stir fry; oatmeal; bread; turkey breakfast sausage; cantaloupe and prosciutto; strawberry shortcake. We picked up a two-fer on pizza the other day which was a break although it wasn’t very good (better on reheating).<\/p>
Ron mentioned how much he would like us to have a juicer, so I dug up mine from the basement. We cleaned it out and made fresh carrot juice the other day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Frost again last night. Good grief, it’s only a week and a half to April; are we done yet?Emme came over for the afternoon, and she and I made a second, superior version of Ron’s sour cream chocolate cake. Candy … Continue reading