Hi Janis,

 JK> > Not good. We had major thunderstorm warnings again last night but
 JK> > escaped any hail, flooding etc. Today hasn't been quite as
 JK> hot/humid; > it's been clouded over with a breeze.

 JK> Hopefully your weather over there has been good to you this week.. I

I'm surviving, but glad we have central air conditioning.


 JK> was so ill finally starting last Friday night I think, I barely was
 JK> able to pay attention to much.. running to doctors, dealing with
 JK> various meds etc..


Not a good time at all! I had a scheduled appointment yesterday with a
hand specialist and have to see my cardiologist on Thursday. That's a
routine 6 month check up; the other was follow up on a severe arthritis
flare up I had a couple of months ago in the thumb joint.

>> to thin the beets, spinach, chinese cabbage and lettuce. More salads
>> (g).

 JK> > Sounds like some good eating. We've been enjoying the fresh produce
 JK> from > the farmer's market this spring, plus the first tomato from our
 JK> set of > 3 plants.

 JK> Still no signs of tomatoes yet but plants are doing really well..
 JK> That's not unusual for NY though as I'm sure you remember.. Boy do I
 JK> wish we could actually get an early tomato over here :)  Not to be I
 JK> guess.  I've even tried Early Girls here, and it's the same problem
 JK> with the weather in Western NYS.

We were given our plants in April with blossoms already on them. That
was a big jump start for us; we usually get them a few weeks less
mature. Tonight's supper was BLTs with home grown T on home made whole
wheat (which we ground the berries to make the flour for) bread.


>> That's good.  I usually freeze parsley.  Probably time to get out
>> there and grab a few bunches as well.

 JK> > I usually dry, then freeze it.

 JK> Seems to work better for me if I freeze it given the kind of cooking I
 JK> do.. I do have some dried though for when the frozen parsley runs out,
 JK> it is handy no doubt. :)

And, conversly, the cooking I do, the dry works well.


>> > We only put in 3, pass alongs from a naighbor who had extras. I
>> probably > won't have a whole lot, if any, to put up but they'll be
>> good eating

>> IIRC, I put in 5 Big Boys, and 4 Romas. I doubt they have flowers yet,
>> but you never know :)

 JK> > Better check--we have Better Boys. I thought about putting in some
 JK> Romas > but we'll be on the road off and on this summer so wouldn't
 JK> neccessarily > be home at the right time to do anything with them.

 JK> Understand.. we decided this year we'll revamp the center
 JK> island/dishwasher/rinse-sink and lighting in the kitchen instead of
 JK> travelling.. Originally we thought about about a trip to Yellow Stone
 JK> park.. but I'd really rather get some things done in the kitchen. :)

We'll be heading north for Steve's high school class reunion & the
picnic next month. In August we're going back to VT with the mission
team to do VBS again. Steve and I are going separate from the team so we
can do some visiting of friends and relatives; we plan to get to VT
ahead of the rest of the team to do the grocery shopping and have supper
ready for them. Have trailer, will travel. (G)

>> > And I should have gotten some lettuce at the farmer's market today >> for
 JK> > BLTs. Got other stuff instead--potatoes, green beans, cucumbers >>
 JK> and
>> > some spelt cinnamon rolls.

>> Sounds nice :)  We passed by one of Ithaca's farmers markets today, we
>> didn't have time to stop.. I was running to an emergency services
>> place for a bad sinus infection that seemed to come out of nowhere..
>> It's the first time I've been to one, really nice people and fast
>> service.

 JK> > Hopefully you're doing better now. Did they give you antibiotics? I
 JK> used > to get sinus infections on a semi regular basis but that
 JK> stopped some > years ago; I don't miss them. (G)

 JK> Yes, I am, finally feeling human today Lol..  it was a trip.. I'm
 JK> allergic to most antibiotics (for a long time the only one I could
 JK> tolerate was
 JK> doxyclycline, my aunt is the same way).. Anyway, I explained all this
 JK> to the Doctor at the emergency clinic, and she said she understood..
 JK> the infection was so bad though and the left side of my face had
 JK> swollen so badly she insisted on giving me a stronger one than
 JK> doxyclycline.  I understand where she was coming from.. That was
 JK> Sunday by the time I decided I had to get to that emergency clinic for
 JK> the swelled left side of my face..

I think I would have put my foot down on that one.

 JK> Unfortunately Monday morning the RIGHT side of my face also blew up
 JK> like balloon from the new antibiotic, and I really couldn't see out of
 JK> either eye much because of the swelling.  I realized through some
 JK> brief clarity of brain (lol) that I had to get to my GP because he
 JK> really knows all the meds I take for MS, and all the allergies I have

Too bad you couldn't have gotten in to see your GP initially. Does he do
phone consults? Mine has a portal on the computer where I can e-mail him
questions, get test results, etc. Haven't tried doing so, but I suspect,
if I needed antibiotics, I might be able to get them thru that (and a
local pharmacy) if we were travelling.


 JK> to so many drugs.  The new one that my GP
 JK> presrcibed worked (yay, another one I _can_ tolerate!), and my GP also
 JK> put me on prednisone to reduce the inflammation.

Good, you're beginning to feel human again. (G)


 JK> I finally got out to my garden yesterday afternoon.. (yesterday wasw
 JK> Sunday so it's been well over 7 days).. and I thinned my baby bok
 JK> choy, and a number of other beds that needed it.. I clipped down the
 JK> spinach so maybe I'll actually get more than what I pulled from the
 JK> thinning/cleaning up..

Sounds like you're doing much better--and eating quite well.


 JK> Last night I made Korean Bimimap for dinner with that baby bok choy
 JK> and spinach clippings, and it was sooooo good :)

I've had it a few times, some home made (in AZ, at the Korean mission of
our church) and some vegetarian that I made once. That was quite a
production--a recipe in "Cooking Light" that took several hours to fix!


 JK> Here's the recipe I used, I mostly followed it. Some substitutions
 JK> noted below. It's a little different from the one in my korean
 JK> cookbook, so it was
 JK> interesting :)

It does look interesting. Did you make kim chee to go with it?

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