Daylight

5:40 p.m.

Daylight…sunshine even! This is the first time this year I’ve grilled in the daylight and not had to inspect progress by flashlight.

It was a beautiful, blue sky, sparkly kind of day. I love this time of year where one day it is wintry, the next it is sunny but cold and then a balmy day with the promise of Spring. We will go back and forth like this for several months.

Bear came out to keep me company while I turned burgers…HIS burgers!

He enjoyed a treat while he waited for his main course.

“Are those burgers done yet???”

I believe in magic

This morning.

After the morning sun, it got colder and gray.

The wind blew.

I sat outside with Bear and Bob and listened to the wind in the pines.

And then it started to snow.

Magic.

Bob and Bear

Bob’s post dental recovery is going very well.

We are half way through the antibiotics and no blood has been shed. Actually, the pill giving-taking has been thankfully non-eventful and easy. The pain med is in a syringe that I shoot into his mouth. It is absorbed through tongue/gums/mouth and does not have to be swallowed so it is easy. I started reducing it today with no noticable difference.

No surprise – he is eating normally :) !!

I haven’t been able to convince him to smile and show the clean chompers, though.

Meanwhile…Mr. Bear is increasingly sore and using the leg less and less but the fixed leg is doing fine. We are taking very short walks.

But tonight, he wanted to play.

WILD man!

I am lousy at the action shots and by the time I had all right with the camera, Bear was done.

A colorful day from the kitchen

First and most importantly! – Bob is doing well, 1 day post dental. He was my overnight snuggle-boy with less night prowling than usual and today also a bit more sedate, but ate normally and all output normal. I was told that the pain med would make him a bit groggy which explains a bit more low-key behavior, but as he is demanding food per normal and seemingly no difficulty eating…well, I am NOT worried at all.

Meanwhile, speaking of food…

Oh, yum! I used a kolache dough circle from the freezer to make a mini-kale/mushroom/goat cheese “galette” for breakfast…with a side of blood orange slices: colorful, delicious and incredibly good!

“Raw” applesauce for a mid-morning snack. I had two apples that seemed a bit…well, I was ready to throw them out when instead, I quartered and threw them in the VitaMix with a little water and cinnamon and blended. Yowza! VERY good applesauce.

The rest of the blood orange from breakfast was juiced along with a Meyer Lemon and the glass filled with fizzy water for a blood orange-meyer lemon soda. Pretty, colorful and wonderfully refreshing.

Lunch was soup. It looks pretty green, but there are red lentils and sweet potatoes in there. The green is a broccoli-red pepper-cashew-nutritional yeast “cheese” sauce. I added curry spices, cinnamon and red pepper to make a sweet-hot soup.

On to Supper.

It was time to cook burgers for Bear. Earlier in the day, I chopped up 2 spears of asparagus and put them in the jar of pickled onions and cucumbers that I had going.

Supper was a burger with melted gruyere, pickled onions/cucumber/asparagus, a side of kalamata olives and a glass of Pinot Noir.

A colorful (and delicious!!) day from the kitchen.