Month: June 2026

I have to tell you that not much scares, or frightens me these days.

At my age, I’ve seen so much stuff, so many “scary” things, that it’s hard to do that anymore.

Until the other day.

I opened the cabinet door under the kitchen sink, and something that looked large enough to be a rat, fell/jumped/sprang, (you choose), onto the floor. I jumped several inches off the ground, (no mean feat), and gave quite the shout. (Really not much more than an “oh”, but with a bit of feeling.) 🫢

Now, as I live on the third floor of a luxury condominium, it hardly seems likely that a spider, ant, cockroach, much less a mouse, or a rat would ever get loose in the apartment. It just doesn’t happen. Let me show you, however, what I saw.

It was a very scary bag of steel wool that had been in a basket on the inside of my cabinet door for about 2 years. Why it decided to jump out of the basket, trying for an escape is completely beyond me.

I’m alive to tell you the silliness of my behavior, never defeated by a silly bag of cleaning fluff.

Until next week meet, stay happy, and healthy in the Lord.

Post script: happy 13th birthday to my third granddaughter, Harlow Jean. I pray you have a wonderful day, and many more wonderful birthdays. 🎂

I’ve been enjoying overnight oats for a couple of weeks now, and find them quite to my liking.

I’m branching out, however, with some old grains that are new to me, having never eaten some of them.

Of course, I had to buy a dispenser carousel in which to put said grains as I now have 6 from which to choose. Alforfón, (buckwheat), Avena, (oats), Cebada Perla, (pearled barley), Mijo, (millet, I bought red millet), Lenteja, (lentils), and Quinoa. The dispenser I bought just happens to have 6 half kilo containers that, when you push, and hold the button, grain is dispensed into a drawer which can then be removed, and taken to wherever to be used.

I have no idea, yet, how to cook with any of these, except the oats, but am excited to start trying them for breakfast and dinner.

If you should find yourself in need of a grain dispenser, similar to the one I bought, be aware that oats do not work in this device. The hole is large enough, they just don’t flow through it. So, I’m having to scoop them out, (not an easy task as they want to jump over into the surrounding compartments), and will put them back into the Ball jar from which they came, putting some sort of rice in its place.

Until next we meet, stay happy, and healthy in the Lord.

You know I enjoy fermenting things, and have for over 20 years.

Now is no different. I ferment water kefir into kefir sodas, (addicted), milk kefir into kefir cheese, and cream, and grains into bread.

I find it difficult to think of a time, and place, when I didn’t ferment things, moving 2000 miles notwithstanding. I have been making sourdough bread for well over 10 years, closer to 15. I now have been fermenting both types of kefir for almost 2 years. I sprout, ferment, then dehydrate Einkorn berries to preserve them for long term storage, then bread baking.

In the fridge, as I’m typing this, I have half of a half gallon Ball jar with fermented sauerkraut, and apple, just waiting for lunch time. Or dinner. Or a snack even. My secret to eating sauerkraut most day? Stevia. I add a few drops of it to the kraut in a ramekin, and it tastes like coleslaw. Repented food easily eaten, producing a healthier microbiome, and a healthier me.

These are 2 half gallon Ball jars of water kefir, fermenting until I can make them into flavored kefir soda.

These small bottles are the flavored water kefir soda, fermenting until they give up a good belch when burped, showing they are ready to go into the fridge to stop the rapid fermentation having taken place. The quart jar is milk kefir, fermenting until it separates into kefir, and kefir whey, at which point I will put it in the fridge as well, processing it into cheese, or a sour cream substitute, in the following days.

Then the process starts all over again. I haven’t bought sour cream until recently. As I was plagued with a few injuries in my quest for better health, I didn’t get around to making the aforementioned kefir items. No big deal. It lasts in the fridge for months.

Until next time my lovelies, stay happy, and healthy in the Lord.