A day of rest

I finished the book The Associate by Grisham. But first I went to the farmers market and the store for the items I missed yesterday. I even used 2 coupons. (I did have to go out to the car to get them,) it took me a month to get them from school to the car.)I have more today. I read The graveyard book. It was cute, I see why it won the Newbery award for best book.

I made butternut squash soup and the squash were on sale for .99 a lb. I laughed because a woman at the market was selling some just like what I wanted. She made hers with cilantro and vegetable stock though. I used chicken but she reminded me to put in a carrot and celery. I wish I still had my blender or one. In the food processor it wasn't creamy enough. I did add yogurt though. She didn't. She was charging 3.00 a small container and 7 for the large. I laughed. She was surprised I made it.

It's a very delicate soup. I may have put too much garlic in it. Now I can take back the two cans of it I bought that have so much sodium.

I need to start making vegie broth though. When dad was here and we did Pridikin together we made one or two soups a week and constantly had a pot of chicken stock going.

When you make everything from scratch it has a lot less salt and other stuff and it's cheaper. I want to make some bread for Easter. I did once before when I tried to make rolls for Ed's parents. He brought the Honey Baked Ham and was supposed to bring a strawberry Pie from Marie Callendar's. The ham got here. I think he was surprised how expensive they are. The pie didn't. Oh well.

I also made a good meatloaf.

My assistant is out sick today. Better now than the last days of school when it's a madhouse. Last year my assistant took one of those days off. I was furious.

I got this rolling cart as a bonus gift today and two more books for the kids. One other just came in from my December order. The cart will be a help for my back and can carry all those books and stuff. It has wheels and pulls.

I want to order some more books for the kids and spend the cash that I have in case someone wants to raid the account.

The wisteria are out and a beautiful purple, The sun is shining. I made some yummy beets. I also got strawberries and blueberries for my oatmeal and crasins. (sic) (cranberry raisins)

I applied for two more jobs one in English and the other as a librarian. There are a lot of pink slips out there.

I'm going to try beet greens again.

I want to plant some tomatoes and basil. I have a lot of sunflower seeds too. They never seem to come up though. I need some manure tea. Once, I put it straight on the beds; stinky, it needs to be integrated.

I finally watched the movie Madagascar (sic) too. It was o.k.

Today I discovered if I slice a beet in my butternut squash soup it is really good and even sweeter and it makes pretty colors orange with red swirls.

Today we had an earthquake. Then we had a duck and cover drill. I didn't feel it but it was a previous unknown fault in Morgan Hill s of San Jose. Great! :-(

The toliet in my new bathroom isn't filling. This happened once before and then it was fine. One day in the other bathroom it sounded like an explosion and gyser, I went in to look but didn't see anthing. Hate to call in the plumber.

My roses are in bloom and I cut two.