This week has been a bit crazy following another storm … Hurricane Michael! My father built a place in the woods of the Florida Panhandle that I hope is still standing (pre-storm picture is above). And at this writing I am still waiting to hear from him, but since power and phone service is out, I think it may be a while. Needless to say I am a bit worried about my 79 year old storm seeker of a dad, but am sure he will have some adventurous tales to tell.
UPDATE: He called from the nearest town! He survived and so did the house … a few trees weren’t as lucky.
I saw Jennifer Garner on Jimmy Kimmel Live this week and loved her interview. She bought a farm (that has been in her family for generations) and plans to grow produce for her new organic baby food company, Once Upon a Farm. The website looks so yummy I wish I had a baby to feed … sort of:)
She also has a bee hive and suggested that everyone have one! I don’t think my condo association would allow it but I have heard about the bee decline that is affecting the environment so I thought I’d check out what I could do. The Pollinator Partnership has some ideas for everyone … I like the part about buying local honey to support bees and beekeepers. Yum!
So I am going to continue on the “yum” theme I’ve started. I’m planning the dinner menu for my turn to host our cooking club. A group of women that have been meeting for years to cook and eat and laugh together. I’m not going to say what’s on the menu since it is supposed to be a surprise, but I will say that I found recipes on valeriehoff.com and healing gourmet. I then decided that for some reason I wanted to try a new cocktail with sake. Cathi turned me on to Just One Cookbook to find the drink recipe. The website is mostly Japanese food recipes that looked so scrumptious I almost wanted to scrap my other menu but I’d already bought most of the ingredients. Next time will be a trip to Japan, I think … by the time it comes around to me again I’m sure the ladies will have forgotten my plan.
And Cathi, as to your question last week about seasonal footwear … looks like we are in for a sunny weekend in south Florida so I may have to go out and shop for my winter flip flops.
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