#2 daughter found Lolita, and I finished reading it. I am looking forward to hearing what the ladies of the Book Club have to say about this book. I hope work is not too busy for me to go to the meeting.
#2 son had a haircut yesterday, #1 son is getting an eye exam today, #2 daughter and I are having our hair cut on Saturday, dentist’s appointments are coming up… It feels like August. I am going to have to take the kids shopping. Sigh.
And yes, I am still reading the knitting blogs. One of the interesting things that I have found is a little bit of a movement to eat locally for the month of August. Many bloggers, recognizing that bringing food in from afar uses way more resources than getting it locally (not to mention the value of supporting local producers) are trying to consume nothing originating further than 100 miles from their homes. This is being called the Eat Local Challenge.
I can’t do this in August. I can barely produced regular balanced meals in August, let alone add restrictions. It is being an interesting thing to read about, though.
However, we did hit the farmer’s market yesterday morning. And breakfast today is a seven-grain cereal milled here. California raisins and Indian tea, though. I said I couldn’t do this in August.
juggling a lot of balls in the air lady…
I have persuaded my office to switch to free trade coffee. However, I have no idea where to find free trade coffee. Thus I am in need of some assistance.
Thanks again for the hospitality and education!
I still find it mildly amazing that 2 countries that are seperated by a puddle or two of water on one side and a few big islands on the other side, can have so many differences in food vocab.
A ‘salad’ would normally consist of lettuce, carrot, cheese, tomato, possibly boiled egg, perhaps with bean sprouts (bean sprouts – 20 yrs ago NZers would not have even thought of eating things that look a little like weeds)- which is usually eaten in spring and summer with meat (generally cold meat). A ‘fruit salad’ is a dessert made up of what ever fruit are in season and often served with ice cream or cream. In the last decade or so we have also ended up with ‘potato salad’ (cubed cold boiled potatoes in mayonnaise) which I think may be a linguistic import from the US because it didn’t exist when I was a child. The main defining feature of a ‘salad’ would be that it consists of mainly raw spring vegetable matter. Coleslaw (chopped up raw cabbage with mayonnaise) is now also common over here as a type of salad – it didn’t exist when I was a kid either – eating raw cabbage, Yuck!.