Tailgating with Ed an Ame

Thank you all for your kind words and condolences.  

We're all doing well (knocking loudly on wood).  It's a glorious day here in Maryland and we're spending the day doing 'stuff' we want to.  We've filled the bird feeders (need to get a new one, the squirrels ate our 'squirrel proof' feeder, sat outside in 65º degree weather, and we're 'getting 'ready' to watch the Eagles and Ravens this afternoon.  We'll be feasting on veggie wraps; a faro, corn, edaname and cilantro salad; and an Asian slaw.  Yes, we're tailgating in our family room. How soon can you all get here?

It's really interesting to me that as the weather begins to cool, I get the cooking/baking bug again.  It happens every year.  I revert to 'primitive woman' girding up for a long, cold winter.  I don't think it coincidence as the leaves fall and the perennials go underground that I begin to crave and want to prepare root vegetables like carrots, sweet potatoes and the like.

Faro, Corn and Edaname Salad

Veggie Wrap & Asian Slaw

I'm Amazed (in no particular order)

1.   Cruise ships, trains, and planes - the size/power -- awesome!

2.   The fact that planes can get off the ground.

3.   The depth of human kindness and the antithetical depth of degradation.  Humans are sooo paradoxical.

4.    Spring -- specifically, that with the slightest tilt of the Earth's axis, trees, flowers, gardens, et cetera, begin to bud.

5.    Earthworms, lady bugs and preying mantis - for all good reasons.

6.    Stinkbugs -  for all bad reasons.

7.    Oceans  -- how within minutes they can go from peaceful lapping to angry pounding!

8.    Donovan McNabb is now a Washington Redskin and will play against the Eagles TWICE!

8b.  The fact that the only football team in the nation having a racial denigration as its name is in our nation's capital.

9.    George Orwell wrote an essay on the need for accuracy and simplicity of language:  a complex, complicated and wordy one!

10.  The infectiousness of laughter.

11.  The unconditional love of pets.

12.  How the brain and body need rest, but still produce dreams while we sleep.

13.  The power of love.

And you???