Friday, March 13

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

Getting decent sleep.

Feeling my daytime anxiety fairly strongly today, but felt a lot better when I went to the barn. Working with River really helps.

I did do a bit of drumming before I went outside, and that helped too. I saw a video about drumming with a metronome, and I haven't thought of that before. It helps a lot to keep you on track. I don't have "natural rhythm" but this is supposed to help develop it.

Our neighbor's dog came into our yard today. He's not doing anything bad, but he doesn't belong here. I know he mainly wants to play with Roxy (I think he's bored), but dogs belong at home.

It's annoying that he won't even let me catch him, I have to just yell at him to go home until his owner realizes that he's gone, and shocks him a few times (though I can hear it going off and the dog seems to ignore it).

I saw R at the barn, so that was nice.

River did well today, worked on our Freestyle elements mostly.

Then I came home, and my Sweetie pulled in the same time.

So I guess he's going to go to town tomorrow and be at the pottery studio when he said he would have the workshop, and if no one shows up, then he'll just leave.

To make the trip at least somewhat worthwhile, he'll go to H&R Block to sign paperwork, and try to drop off a bunch of stuff at the local ReStore, some furniture we don't need.

So tonight we moved some of that upstairs so it's easier to get at tomorrow.

Also, Dan is coming tomorrow afternoon to start sanding the floor in the unfinished bedroom in the addition.

I made supper for myself, and we watched the last two episodes of "Slow Horses", which finished the season.

Comments

[ratunderpaper]

How very satisfying to get a floor sanded!

[gottawonder]

It's been a long time coming. Nearly seven years since we got the house on the foundation, and the addition has been standing for about five years, and just taking forever to finish.

The bedroom in question has finished walls (painted), and the floor is laid, but it still needs finished window and door frames and the floor to be finished.

Dan is doing a marvelous job of consistently showing up and doing good work for us, and he works well with my husband. My husband TRUSTS Dan to do a good job, which means everything.

We treat Dan well, and on top of just paying him in a timely fashion and letting him work in peace, my husband gives him banana bread.

[ratunderpaper]

He must be good if he gets perks like homemade banana bread.

Do you also eat this banana bread?

[gottawonder]

No, I don't eat my husband's baking. It's baking, loaded with flour and sugar, all not good things for keeping off weight and managing my blood sugar.

That's why my husband does the baking. If I can't eat it, why would I be baking it for others to eat (though I sometimes have done for people helping us build).

[ratunderpaper]

Before the denizen world went low carbohydrate, I baked breads with kamut, spelt, quinoa, oat and other wholegrain flours, sweetened slightly with malt (to get the yeast going) and loaded with seeds, nuts and apple chunks- they were hearty and dense.

It sounds like spouse's banana bread is like Lois's banana loaf cake, which was sweet and nice. She had walnuts or pecans in hers, and often iced it with a vanilla glaze.

[gottawonder]

Those sound like lovely loafs. I could probably eat those kinds.

Yes, my husband's banana bread is more like cake.

[ratunderpaper]

You can buy that kind of seedy, grainy bread here, but it is very expensive. I liked making my own and may do it again some day.

[gottawonder]

I'm sure that buying a small salad like I make for my husband's lunches would be very expensive too. You can get something similar at The Copper Branch as a meal, and it costs about $15 per serving. I don't ever see anything like it available as a little clamshell salad at grocery stores.

[ratunderpaper]

Summerhill Market (just around the corner from me) sells lovely salads, but they are very expensive – $15 or so. Even the supermarket salads are pricey.