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The normal ramblings, some fruit-related material
I'm so tired. I made fun of Magnus and his "cushy office job" on Friday. I work hard from 8 am to 6 pm (today until almost 7) and he works from 8:30 to 5, sitting around an office all day. Woe is me. ;) Seriously, though, this produce market stuff is for the birds. You simply wouldn't believe how much work goes into it! Carolyn (the woman who came with the store) decided she wanted Friday and Monday off. At least I have my working in for the week, though! She only works four days a week (no overtime available at Gilliam's Produce!) I could actually work three days if I would.. they would very much like me there on the weekends, I think, so they could have a real life. I don't want to work when M is home, though. Anyway, working one day a week sort of pays for my insurance, which is really what I said to begin with that I'd like to get out of it. I have something to add to my week, a little extra money, and I get tons of produce stories. Not very GOOD produce stories, necessarily, but still.
I guess I should talk about produce again, actually. Remember I mentioned previously that one should never drop rotten fruit? There's even more to the story, it turns out--one should never EVER squeeze it. Yuck. It's simply incredible how fast stuff goes bad. If you get disgusted with your local grocer because there's a moldy grape in the bunch.. try to take pity on them. This morning, for instance, I checked all the grapes, and then while putting things up this evening, I saw (and removed) a grape that was completely white and furry. I watched Mom go through apples yesterday; today I pulled at least twenty out of the bins. There's just a lot of stuff to work through! We've been putting stuff on a reduced price table. I'm beginning to wonder if it's worth the effort. The tomatoes sell, and to a lesser extent, the green peppers and corn, but for the most part, it just sits and languishes. People don't like to think about the produce sitting around for days, I think. But it really hurts to watch perfectly good food (minus a few spots) get thrown away. Of course, we do get a lot of requests for our scraps. People want to feed their rabbits. We certainly have plenty to give them.
Apparently, I'm not really in the mood to discuss the ongoing saga of As the Fruit Turns. That last paragraph just ended up as boring babble, but I went to all the trouble of typing it so I'll just leave it as it is.
Moving on from produce somewhat.. We had the most excellent dinner tonight. Magnus says that we must be getting old because we enjoyed this so much. I boiled some new potatoes and fried some cabbage and served it with (garlic cream sauce) pickled herring (which I tried but did not like and certainly did not eat) and cucumbers. We didn't have any dill, though, for the potatoes. It was a very simply meal and the most satisfying thing I've had in ages. We'll probably have it again very soon, likely this week if not tomorrow. I'm thinking about making the basil chicken thing that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carrieb wrote about sometime this week. Maybe. If I ever get to the store.
And Some Catchups..
I mentioned it in the comments for that day, but I just remembered that I didn't say outright that my grandfather turned out to have a cold/flu thing, not a heart problem. I didn't want him to be sick, obviously, but very glad that it was that and not something worse! He's just fine now. And I also want to add that I was just rambling the other night when I got into people who say they're too busy to mail. It's just a mild pet peeve, certainly not directed at anyone in particular and also not something that really bothers me except when I think on it. I realized yesterday that the only person I'm actually waiting for a mail from isparadisecowgirl and she was probably thinking, "man, what a bitch!" when I wrote that. *wink* And furthermore, I've neglected to mention how extremely proud I am of my dad, who's lost 55-60 pounds in the last few months. :) Yay Dad!
I guess I should talk about produce again, actually. Remember I mentioned previously that one should never drop rotten fruit? There's even more to the story, it turns out--one should never EVER squeeze it. Yuck. It's simply incredible how fast stuff goes bad. If you get disgusted with your local grocer because there's a moldy grape in the bunch.. try to take pity on them. This morning, for instance, I checked all the grapes, and then while putting things up this evening, I saw (and removed) a grape that was completely white and furry. I watched Mom go through apples yesterday; today I pulled at least twenty out of the bins. There's just a lot of stuff to work through! We've been putting stuff on a reduced price table. I'm beginning to wonder if it's worth the effort. The tomatoes sell, and to a lesser extent, the green peppers and corn, but for the most part, it just sits and languishes. People don't like to think about the produce sitting around for days, I think. But it really hurts to watch perfectly good food (minus a few spots) get thrown away. Of course, we do get a lot of requests for our scraps. People want to feed their rabbits. We certainly have plenty to give them.
Apparently, I'm not really in the mood to discuss the ongoing saga of As the Fruit Turns. That last paragraph just ended up as boring babble, but I went to all the trouble of typing it so I'll just leave it as it is.
Moving on from produce somewhat.. We had the most excellent dinner tonight. Magnus says that we must be getting old because we enjoyed this so much. I boiled some new potatoes and fried some cabbage and served it with (garlic cream sauce) pickled herring (which I tried but did not like and certainly did not eat) and cucumbers. We didn't have any dill, though, for the potatoes. It was a very simply meal and the most satisfying thing I've had in ages. We'll probably have it again very soon, likely this week if not tomorrow. I'm thinking about making the basil chicken thing that
carrieb wrote about sometime this week. Maybe. If I ever get to the store.And Some Catchups..
I mentioned it in the comments for that day, but I just remembered that I didn't say outright that my grandfather turned out to have a cold/flu thing, not a heart problem. I didn't want him to be sick, obviously, but very glad that it was that and not something worse! He's just fine now. And I also want to add that I was just rambling the other night when I got into people who say they're too busy to mail. It's just a mild pet peeve, certainly not directed at anyone in particular and also not something that really bothers me except when I think on it. I realized yesterday that the only person I'm actually waiting for a mail from is
paradisecowgirl and she was probably thinking, "man, what a bitch!" when I wrote that. *wink* And furthermore, I've neglected to mention how extremely proud I am of my dad, who's lost 55-60 pounds in the last few months. :) Yay Dad!