It seems to be time for cornflowers at the moment.
Today’s Flower: Cornflower
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RDP Monday: Cardinal
No beautiful colourful birds here is my Swiss area. I have never seen a cardinal bird, but can imagine they must be something very striking in colour. Living in a catholic area of Switzerland I must admit I have never seen a cardinal in our cathedral, but they are probably more at home in Rome.
One of my newest requirements in my kitchen is bottle of tomato sauce. I am always on the lookout for refining my cuisine. I usually empty a tin of tomatoes in a sauch for the flavour, but have now discovered the bottled tomato sauce, so decided to include it in my shopping list last week. I have now received a bottle on my online delivery. It is still untouched in the fridge waiting for its debut which will probably be tomorow when I cook my chopped chicken breast in a sauce. I am always ready for new ideas and discovered the idea in Facebook of all places with photos. They often have new cooking ideas and tomato sauce is included. Not wanting to cook a cardinal I decided on an animal friendly soltution.
Daily Writing Prompt
I actually wish they would stop updating everything. I am too old to change my computer antics daily. It is all under the name of progress, I know, but I do not want progress. I want my computer to behave as I am used to it behaving. I sometimes think my computer is also no happy with the eternal changes in its software and there are times when it refuses to do what I want it to do. I wish I had a computer with everything outdated that I do no have to discover how it now functions.
Today’s Flower: Mandevilla
One of the local flowers.
FOWC with Fandango: Mold
If you buy fruit, there is always something moldy in the bag. I must say the mold can be quite colourful although not exactly what you want. However, the moldy days will be arriving again most probably. This Summer has been so hot and dry, that mold has made itself quite rare.
This afteroon we had our first rainfall since a few months. I almost did a happy dance. At last some dampness in the air again. Everything was so dry. However, I will probably by complaining when I begin to find a moldy orange again in the bunch. You just cannot have everything I suppose.
RDP Tuesday: Timing
Can you see it? Yes it is raining, we have wet after a few months. The timing was right. I was sitting quietly at my desk and heard a thumping noise. Not so good, as it was the noise of the rain thumping on my sun blind. However, that will dry again, and my plants are no longer hanging out their leaves to find a drop of water. The water has arrived again. After five minutes it stopped raining, but no worry. Half an hour later it began again. The timing was good, no pitter patter, but thumping noise as the rain hit the hard dry surface of the garden.
I somehow have a feeling that I should do a rain dance to celebrate There is even a cool breze blowing, although I should not get excited. The weather report tells me tomorrow again hot, hot, hot. However it seems just 30°C instead of 34°C which means that slowly but surely we are returing to a normal Summer and not the tropical conditions we have had. I have never been so happy to see rain, feel it and even smell it.
Daily Writing Prompt
I think it must be Dracula by Bam Stoker. I now a curious answer, but I always had a fascination for horror stories from a young age. I think I was a little infected by my dad, he liked them as well. And then he told me he had a copy of Dracular, in his possession, very old from the mid 1900 hundreds. I began to read it. I was then a young teeager, and I loved it. I think over the years I have read it often. It never fails to bore me. It is written in an interesting style, as a diary written by Johathan Harker, the man who visited Count Dracula to help him travel to Britain.
RDP Monday: Flank
I live from frozen flanks. It is not always easy for me to buy my food daily and I order online and freeze it in my deepfreezer in the cellar. Over time I collect various flanks of meat and have no panic that I have nothing to eat. I also have to cater for my son, he is no great problem. Actually I eat more poultry than actual meat, but I can always vary my choice to cope with my sons taste.
Over the years I have become quite an expert on what to freeze and how to do it. I even have a machine for vacuuming various meats, such as minced or sliced. The advantage is that you can keep it for some time frozen – no problem.
FOWC with Fandango: Shift
This chair, a de Sede, has been in my son’s room for many years. However, no longer as fresh and good as it was. I remember when my husband bought the set of two chairs and a sofa. One chair I have still, now in my bedroom and in good condition. The sofa is also still in use. Today my son and his family were on a visit, it was decided that it was really time to say goodbye to this relic from the passed days. At the next opporunity we will say goodbye to the chair and it will be given to our collection of unwanted goods. Sometimes you look at the same object day for day and then someone sees it with other eyes and you realise it is time to say goodbye. I have a worthy replacemen. Also a de Sede, but more modern and in perfect condition. You grow accustomed to something and suddenly realise it is time for it to be shifted away.
RDP Sunday; Centerpiece
Somehow this photo arrangement has been on my piano top for many years. With time there have been additions. Some are paintings from Mr. Swiss who is now in his golden oldie home since 5-6 years. Also a group photo of one of the jazz groups where he played drums. There are a few photos of his children and mine and even a photo of me with my father which must now be at leat 50-60 years old, but they are memories and part of my life. Just a mixture, but memories combined, a centerpiece of my life.
Chronicles of an Anglo Swiss 