Coffee

[Dahlia]

I had 2 coffees, a homemade egg,/sausage McMuffin with melted American cheese, and a pear.

 

[ducks4you]

Trying to prepare  rested for the day, after my breakfast . Easier today after being horizontal for 8 hours. Not so yesterday when I was up at 1:30. Fell asleep after breakfast then for a 90 minute nap and had a difficult time gathering enough energy to fix myself a 2nd breakfast with coffee 4 hours after rising.

I may make 2nds something simple and carry the coffee out the door because of a morning appointment. Do you ever imagine where people you expect to meet early are in their morning routines? With so many offices opening early these days, I suspect that few have much opportunity for being in bed late. DD works from home some weekdays but often communicates with the company workers in Europe! That's quite a time step from gathering on the sidewalk waiting for the janitor to open the doors during pre-dawn hours.

Middle DD has been working from home for 5 years now. During COVID her employer needed to keep good workers, and sent many of them to work from home IF their job was an online one. She helps create their web page, and drives 20 minutes to their office 2x/month, and maybe a few more times, like recently when they had a massive upload and were testing.
She can drop GS off at school and pick him up, and we talk most M-F days and keep up with our prayer list.
The Internet makes it possible for Good workers like my DD and Your DW to do a good job and not move.
Safer, too.
Here the "in town" has gotten more dangerous and I am happy that the other 2 DD's live in a town with a gas station, so that they can fill up at a safe location, and not deal with riff raff.
I did a signing for a couple a few years ago. I noticed that the co-borrower had 2 monitors so I asked about it.
Again, during COVID her company sent her home to work remotely. She now starts at 7AM, works until 2PM, has the rest of the day. She Loves it, mostly bc her boss didn't bother training new employees and would send them over to Her to train AND to do her job.
NOW, her boss has to do His/Her own training.
I have spoken to many people who work from home. People who have a work ethic actually work Harder working from home than at an office.
When I worked in an office, employees would kill time at the beginning of the day, at lunch, at the end of the day, and at the water cooler. You don't do that when it's just you and your computer and have to meet your deadlines.
DD also has daily meetings, so she keeps nice tops to wear with her jeans or sweatpants and slippers.
This is NOT the same as the recent story in D.C., where a reporter discovered that a government office building that is supposed to have 2900 employees had only 49 who were showing up at the office to work, AND, the government was paying a staff of cafeteria cooks to make food every day. There were also empty basketball courts and other gyms.
So...we should not throw the "work at home babies" out with the "slothful" bathwaters/waders.

 

[flowerbug]

...I have spoken to many people who work from home. People who have a work ethic actually work Harder working from home than at an office.

it really depends. where i'm at now is a disaster for trying to get things done.

 

[digitS']

I did good on the sleep schedule, last night .

Blue berry pancakes and an orange finished – I'm on to the herbal tea and should be off to the kitchen for a little more. Hobbling. I remember not one moment when my garden work this week included any twinge or thought about injury to my right knee but it's a little swollen and sore, since. As recommended to @ducks4you , I have some methyl salicylate oil on it again. Hysan, from the Asian market – it has been a help now and then with sinus headaches and a sore wrist & thumb ...

No need to put any of that oil with its pain relief on the left leg. The sciatic went bad yeeeaaars ago with the foot drop and all. So, 2 bad legs?

 

[Dahlia]

Breakfast today - 2 cups coffee, yogurt crepes rolled up with melted butter and apricot jam. A couple pieces of bacon for dessert!

 

[ducks4you]

Coffee with the unjelled but totally delicious lemon meringue pie I made yesterday.
DD's had a pie intervention. I listened to some BAD advice re corn starch and butter. We went on YouTube to see what Chef John had to say about this, and a few others (names??) and the next one will be better.
Family said that I MUST try again, and will offer few complaints as they finish off the leftovers tonight.
At Least I remembered how to make meringue! I used some vanilla that middle DD had diffused from vanilla sticks and given me a year ago. It is totally brownish black and tastes terrific!

 

[Dahlia]

Coffee with the unjelled but totally delicious lemon meringue pie I made yesterday.
DD's had a pie intervention. I listened to some BAD advice re corn starch and butter. We went on YouTube to see what Chef John had to say about this, and a few others (names??) and the next one will be better.
Family said that I MUST try again, and will offer few complaints as they finish off the leftovers tonight.
At Least I remembered how to make meringue! I used some vanilla that middle DD had diffused from vanilla sticks and given me a year ago. It is totally brownish black and tastes terrific!

I wanted to add the laughing face like Digits did, but my phone is not cooperating so you just get a like instead!
I once make some lemon bars, cooking them in a glass pan (bad mistake) and they were super soft in the middle and hard as stone around the edges! My daughter and her boyfriend loved then, strangely, and ate them daily with their coffee until they vanished!

 

[baymule]

I drank my 2 cups of coffee, it’s still dark outside. I guess I could finish folding and put away the clothes on the sofa. I have to get chores done early so I can get to church on time. I teach children’s class, ages 3 to 12. Usually 4-6 kids, once 10 kids. Small church, a BIG Sunday is 60-ish people.

 

[digitS']

Tastes. The differences are difficult to account for. Inexperience only goes so far and obsession is way over the top with some folks.

Wholewheat toast and canned peaches — I'm on to the herbal tea. So, we passed the hunger moon and then, the worm moon. I haven't seen a single worm on the soil surface.

Except for bananas, fresh fruit is entirely absent in our kitchen. It's to be expected. DW will not tolerate this more than a few hours . I will, once again, suggest strawberries. Southern California cherry and apricot seasons might be at hand ... next month.

 

[flowerbug]

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I once make some lemon bars, cooking them in a glass pan (bad mistake) and they were super soft in the middle and hard as stone around the edges! My daughter and her boyfriend loved then, strangely, and ate them daily with their coffee until they vanished!

we like a lot of lemon desserts. i would have also probably enjoyed the various textures of that one. sweet and sour and chewy.

domino bars (i see some recipes use vanilla pudding and vanilla instead of lemon pudding and lemon juice but we don't) are very good for those who can tolerate sugar, the combinations of chocolate and lemon are always thumbs up for us.

i need to use up some bran cereal so that will be for breakfast. i want something warm so i'll heat that up with plenty of milk on it.