G has EOM (end of month) work this evening so he is napping. Riley is napping. We have to visit Wally World to pick up prescriptions for G's cough which is getting worse. We may have time to go to Staples to get a printer cartridge.
Since I will be eating alone this evening, I will be having my own rendition of the 111Maine Street Harvest Plate. Steamed butternut squash, kale and roasted beets. That's the way 111 served it. I will be roasting the butternut and serving a much larger portion of the kale. I LOVE kale. I discovered that I did love kale at 111. I am thankful to them for serving it to me.
Today's horoscope directs me to finish something I have started even if I no longer care about it. That could be any number of things. It also directs me to do more of the things that bring me joy. How could I possibly write more blog posts????
I think today is the day I call QVC to request another Pilates machine as the weld on the frame has caused me to stop doing any of the Feet In Straps exercises or any of the others that cause the platform to bounce over an uneven weld on the frame. The hesitation and then the bounce has caused me pain. I watched the demo machines on QVC last night and they all slide smoothly over that seam. It was only as I got better at my exercises that I noticed. I am deeply saddened. I love my machine. Because I am a pessimist, I think any other machine that replaces this one may have a smooth slide but may not be as wonderful in all the other ways. Today is the day I call. The Pilates brings me joy.
I need to wake G up so we can get our errands done. I will see if Wally World has kale in the grocery section. And beets.
I will be adding a garden blog to the sidebar. Margaret Roach. A delightful blog (I don't need to write one now) and she covers a great many subjects which you can get to with a simple click. I love a well designed blog. I now know that you pronounce Clivia like Clive. Clive e ah. That alone is worth putting her in the sidebar. Now to discover the correct way to say Peony.
1 comment:
I'm still in a jet lag fog here but your *peony* comment prompted me to claw my way out to leave my two cents.
Being from a Boston gardening family (and then living many years in Maine), we always pronounced them *pee-O-nees*. Once we landed in the midwest, we only heard *PEE-a-nees*. But the best was my little-old-lady, next door neighbor in upstate NY. She often referred to some plant called *pineys* and I never could figure out what she was talking about until she showed at my door one day with a bouquet of *pineys* for me.
So, how do you pronounce it? And do you hear variations in the course of your work?
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