March 28, 2021 Brunch - Sausage Burritos Dinner - PPI spaghetti squash, baked chicken, rack of lamb, meatloaf, and salad

March 28, 2021 Brunch - Sausage Burritos   Dinner - PPI spaghetti squash, baked chicken, rack of lamb, meatloaf, and salad

Something amazing happened today.  When awakened in the morning the numbness and pain in my right leg was gone and it did not return all day.  This is the first time for this to occur for an entire day in about ten years.

I watched the news shows until 10:00 and then took two phone calls until about 11:00.  Suzette ate the PPI Pork egg foo young and then went to the garden to work, feeding the fruit trees and cultivating the garden beds.

I made sausage, potato, and onion burritos for me and Suzette at about 12:00.

 Then I went to the garden and helped plant snow peas and lettuce.

We zoomed at 2:00 with Billy and Elaine and at 3:00 I napped until 4:15 when we went for a walk in the Bosque around the lake where many waterfowl were eating and basking in the warm afternoon sun.  We saw Canadian geese, mallards, goldeneyes, green teal and a pair of wood ducks.

I walked over a mile without serious pain.

We then drove to the recycling center on Broadway and deposited our empty bottles. When we returned home we opened the newly received bottle of Calstar Rose of Pinot Noir, which was a little disappointing after the luscious 2023 Calstar Pinot Noir.  It was rather bland without much character, although drinkable and sufficiently dry.

We drank a glass under the gazebo and when Willy arrived at 7:00 he helped us pick a basket full of lettuce from our garden that we took to the kitchen and prepared a salad and heated leftovers for dinner.  Suzette filled three plates half full with chicken, meatloaf, lamb riblets and spaghetti squash covered with the lovely tomato and mushroom sauce that the chicken was baked in and heated them in the microwave, while I spun the lettuce and placed the lettuce in a large wooden salad bowl and added a diced and sliced hard boiled egg, a tomato, two radishes, six marinated, grilled asparagus, and thin slices of red onion and Caesar dressing.

We filled our plates with salad and glasses with the rest of the Calstar rose and went back out to the table under the gazebo to eat dinner and chat.

After dinner Willy left and I ate a piece of baklava with a cup of camomile tea flavored with lime juice and honey, a la Mexico.

At 9:30 we went to bed tired from our day of gardening and hiking in the Bosque.

Bon Appetit