Hello, Saturday
Oct. 13th, 2012 08:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alpharaposaThe cub is sick. The whole family is a little under the weather, but only the cub actually has a cough and runny nose. It's a pretty rough cough.
Short-term disability was approved. I have been off work for two weeks and feel better with all the extra sleep. Also, I spent a lot of the last two weeks reading, which went a long way to restoring energy reserves I'd spent down to the last. I feel like I can think and focus again without having to set myself in crisis mode first.
I've done a lot of cooking as well. I've had to switch to a low salt diet, which is difficult because so many "quick" things are full of sodium in order to keep them ready to be eaten at any time. I can't even go pick up a box or can of broth to make soup. So, last week I made some very good chicken broth, and this week I turned it into a large amount of homemade chicken noodle soup just in time for everybody to get sick. Um, yeah. Also, the local farmer's market gets different varieties of apples in through the season (20 different types!), so we've been trying a few out. We bought Cordtlands and found that they had a lovely spicy tart taste, so we turned a bunch of them into apple butter, with a few Fuji apples for sweetness. I'm pondering making some pie crust and turning some of the remaining Fuji apples into dumplings. Maybe. Depends on energy and time, like always.
There's a big harvest fair at the farmer's market today, so in spite of feeling sick, we're going to go and see the fun. There'll be pony rides and farm animals to pet, and I'm planning on picking up some wildflower honey to help sooth a certain sore throat. No sourwood honey so far this year, which was a disappointment, but the apiary will have a booth at the fair, so maybe we'll get lucky.
Short-term disability was approved. I have been off work for two weeks and feel better with all the extra sleep. Also, I spent a lot of the last two weeks reading, which went a long way to restoring energy reserves I'd spent down to the last. I feel like I can think and focus again without having to set myself in crisis mode first.
I've done a lot of cooking as well. I've had to switch to a low salt diet, which is difficult because so many "quick" things are full of sodium in order to keep them ready to be eaten at any time. I can't even go pick up a box or can of broth to make soup. So, last week I made some very good chicken broth, and this week I turned it into a large amount of homemade chicken noodle soup just in time for everybody to get sick. Um, yeah. Also, the local farmer's market gets different varieties of apples in through the season (20 different types!), so we've been trying a few out. We bought Cordtlands and found that they had a lovely spicy tart taste, so we turned a bunch of them into apple butter, with a few Fuji apples for sweetness. I'm pondering making some pie crust and turning some of the remaining Fuji apples into dumplings. Maybe. Depends on energy and time, like always.
There's a big harvest fair at the farmer's market today, so in spite of feeling sick, we're going to go and see the fun. There'll be pony rides and farm animals to pet, and I'm planning on picking up some wildflower honey to help sooth a certain sore throat. No sourwood honey so far this year, which was a disappointment, but the apiary will have a booth at the fair, so maybe we'll get lucky.
