April 21, 2024 Breakfast - Pickled Herring on Toast. Lunch - Scalo and Earth-day, Dinner - Chicken Pita Pocket Sandwich

April 21, 2024 Breakfast - Pickled Herring on Toast. Lunch - Scalo and Earth-day, Dinner - Chicken Pita Pocket Sandwich

Today things got better. My heart rate stabilized even though I walked 3200 steps, but I did the walking with food and separated in time.

Suzette fixed me a cup of latte macchiato around 8:00 as I was watching soccer and news. Aston Villa beat Bournemouth to hold on to 4th place and then Liverpool beat Fulham to go into a tie for 1st place.  The season is nearing its end and there is growing pressure to stay at the top and avoid relegation.

The news did little more than reflect the immense events that occurred this week that should shift the state of world affairs, including the cessation of tit for tat attacks between Israel and Iran and the House passing the $95 Billion Supplemental to provide military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan.

The huge change politically is that Speaker Mike Johnson put aside threats of withdrawal by Radical Republicans and the aid package and renewal of the FISA enabling statute on the floor for a vote and they both  passed easily with more Democratic votes than Republican votes.

If Johnson follows this strategy it will eliminate the power of the radical Republicans and end divided government, which is huge.

I toasted two slices of rye bread at 9:00 and spread them with sour cream and garnished them with sliced onion and all the remaining pickled herring and drank a cup of chai with it.

At 9;30 I started working with Suzette to first put a large box into her Highlander and then to mix and feed the raspberry, blueberry, and grape vines with fertilizer.

After we finished I watched the Liverpool match and some more news.

Then at 12:30 we drove to Nob Hill Center for this year’s Earth Day celebration.

We achieved our primary goal of buying a piece of hand dyed indigo colored Queen’s cloth from Nigeria for $150.00 to use for curtains in our bedroom.

Suzette had not eaten and was hungry, so we stepped into Scalo’s and discovered they had a Bloody Mary Brunch special that gave you a large glass half filled with vodka and ice that you filled with Clamato and other flavoring and skewers that you load with items from a buffet, like crab claws, shrimp, oysters, ham, donuts, chicken wings, baked baby hot dogs, etc. to fill your glass.

Here is Suzette’s effort.

I ordered a Margharita pizza with sauce, mozzarella, and fresh basil leaves and a glass of French rose wine. The best 5ing about the pizza was its wonderful crisp and flavorful crust.

We shared the pizza and really improved it by adding some snow crab claw meat.

After lunch we went home and napped.

I awakened at 5:00. We discussed dinner and came up with a great idea.  We would each stuff 1/2 of a warmed pita with chicken, tomato, onion slices, feta cheese, and tzatziki.

As we watched Doc Martin, I made tzatziki, with a diced peeled and seeded cucumber salted with 1 tsp. of salt, the juice and pulp of one clove of garlic, the leaves of three sprigs of mint minced, 1 T. of olive oil, 2 T. of onion, and 1 1/2 cups of yogurt.

Then at 7:00 Suzette shredded some chicken and heated it and fetched the cleaned lettuce and we filled our pita pocket and ate it with lettuce with a glass of Kirkland Pinot Grigio.

We were both satisfied and Suzette we might even lose some weight if we reduced our dishes like using only 1/2.of a pita for a meal.

We watched Masterpiece Theatre on PBS and then Suzette went to bed at 10:00 and I at 11:00.

Bon Appetit