Day Thirty Seven - what season is this?

Lamentations 3:22-24 

Because of the LORD's great love 

we are not consumed, 

for His compassions never fail.

They are new every morning; 

great is Your faithfulness.

I say to myself, 

"The LORD is my portion; 

therefore I will wait for Him."

So I thought I'd be a little more active today than yesterday.  That doesn't mean much.  It started out looking like it was going to be a nice day, but that didn't last long.  It got really dreary.  I finally decided that that shouldn't keep me from going out.  I did putz around for a long time.  If I did anything useful I can't remember it. I have to get into some kind of habit of accomplishing things or I'll find myself getting either depressed or stressed.  Gives you too much time to think about what's coming down. 

So I finally called Annie and asked her if she'd like to go do something with me.  I didn't know what we were going to do, and as I left the house it began to rain.  By the time I got Annie I decided that we would stop at Mill Ends and then go to Bob's Red Mill.  My nutritionist highly recommended getting food items there.  Now I shop there often, but I was particularly interested in seeing what kind of organic items they had.

On the way to Mill Ends it absolutely poured.  You could say it was raining cats and dogs. At one point it was even hard to see.  When we got there  I poked around the knitting department and found a really lovely skein made from New Zealand wool, mohair, and cashmere.  It struck me that I could make a nice pair of ankelwarmers to wear in the chemo room (aka infusion suite).  It's actually rather cold in there.  They probably have to keep all that medicine hanging in there at a good temperature.  The wool came in only three colors - natural, navy, and mauve - so it didn't take long to decide on natural.  [I'm already half done with the first anklewarmer].  While there another downpour occurred, so we went and looked at patterns for a while, not wanting to go to the car and getting drenched.

Bob's Red Mill surprised me.  They had very few organic products.  I really didn't expect that.  Annie was really glad that I chose to go there, as she'd been wanting to go there for quite a while.  She found all kinds of things she like.  My favorite thing I found was organic dark chocolate chips from Italy.  I've been wanting some chocolate of late, and what better way to get it than a couple organic chocolate chips.  I just need to hind it in a good place.  I also got a big bag of organic regular oatmeal, and a big bag of organic white flour.  They had their cookbook on sale, so I got a copy.  It's got a lot of wholesome recipes in it.  I just need to go through it and mark the good ones, or the ones I think I can modify.

On the way back home the south going traffic on McLoughlin Blvd  was completely stopped because of a mini-van laying on its side across the road.  That was a scary sight.  I nope no one was seriously injured.  Sarah had called earlier to say that they were coming over to make dinner for us.  On my way back home she called saying that she was going to make a stir-fry.  I turned that down straight away.  Stir fry did not sound good.  
I suggested chowder.  Zac liked that idea, and that's what we went with.  Then I dropped Annie off at her house and headed home.

Turns out Sarah had never made chowder.  A most surprising thing.  For one thing, her husband likes it, and also, she's my daughter, so how did she miss that one.  But I talked her trough it.  Caleb was all over the place, so it was a bit stressful.  I decided that I'd like salmon in the chowder, as we had some good wild Alaskan salmon in the refrigerator, and who knows where the clams came from.  We didn't use creamed corn, but took organic frozen corn and heated it up and smooshed it in the blender with some milk.  She also added diced fresh green beans that I had cooked up to au dent the other day.  Zac first baked the salmon, and when he put it into the chowder he told me that he thought it looked like too much, so I told him to fish some of it out, which he thought was a funny pun.  Sarah added no pepper, and just a little salt.  Then when we finally ate dinner, Toot and Puddle were put on the table, and I told everyone that I was fine with the adding more salt and some pepper.  It was a very tasty soup.  I need to find out why I don't particularly like much salt.  I know why I don't like the pepper.  Perhaps it's because it hurts my lips.  

Sarah also made corn biscuits out of my new cookbook.  I think that I should have gotten the fine grind cornmeal, as opposed to the medium grind, but still I enjoyed the biscuits, especially because I put butter and some honey on them.  When dinner was over Caleb and I were both very tired, and the Enochs soon left, after cleaning up some.  Riley didn't mind cleaning up the rest, as he didn't have to make the dinner.

We maybe watched a little baseball, but I don't remember, as I really was very tired.  I soon took an Ativan and went to bed.

"For I satisfy the weary ones 

and refresh everyone who languishes." 

Jeremiah 31:25