Hey everyone! I have been a busy bear along with FCM and…everyone else! (yeah swampy, I’s a bear too, after living with them, and tattooing myself with a bear related tat I have earned the right to call myself a bear. I’s a female bear though, so it’s all good, right?)
A small confession, I am taking a new med, and it’s making me a bit befuddled, so please allow for the great yawning gaps in my memory. Plus I have to keep going back and adding r’s where the stupid r key failed to put them…I gotta get a new keyboard!
Anyway, I cleaned out two hampers full of stuff. Some of it was kept, most was junked. And I’d better not find skiffman going though the trash and pulling anything back out! I do have a dilemma though, at what point do you decide that the treasures which your children have made for you with their own hands over the years are just too many dust catchers, and then, what do you do with them? I have tossed a lot of drawings/paintings which have become the worse for the wear they have received though the years and moves, but all three of my girls have taken a lot of art classes, and I have their ceramic treasures, such as two bears, one with chipped off ears, and another with a broken arm, I found the arm, but the claws are missing. There are three other pieces of ceramics within my view right now…I have too much stuff, but some of it I just can’t bear to part with. sigh Geez, I get all teary when I look at them and remember my babies before they got all grown up…getting old kinda sucks. Maybe I’m just being hormonal, but I miss my babies. Part of it is listening to you, FCM, with all your plans for your baby’s graduation and wedding. (Take a lot of tissues with you!) I need to go to Anchorage and hug my grown up babies and play with the new babies, and I need to go soon. (insert teary but smiling smilie here)
I am glad that y’all enjoyed my recipes, I had fun putting them together for you. They aren’t written down recipes, they are in my head…kind of a dangerous place to store things any more! swampy the vegetables in the perok recipe are completely variable. If’n you don’t like rutabagas (one of the few reliable crops on Kodiak) just use more carrots instead. The taste really mingles with the cabbage and onions, the first time I ate perok I thought the rutabaga was some strange cheese which didn’t melt! Some people don’t use salmon, they put in halibut or cod, and some people put canned corned beef instead of fish, and some use cooked ground game meat and gravy. Salmon is traditional, and my favorite.
Your food fest sounds like it was fun bear! It sounds like you have a lot of fun times, and it’s warm there where you are. I may have to bust in on you someday! 
herbs your family and especially your brother are in my prayers. I have two wayward brothers, so I know what y’all are going through. I hope that your bro gets his act together and begins to enjoy real life. (((herbs)))
FCM your yard pictures are very nice. I am so jealous of you and everyone else who are into spring. I have a little bit of grass beginning to green up, but nothing flowering, or even close. I heard that there are daffodils up at the Fish and Game building, but they are downtown (lol!) and it’s in a warm bit of a micro climate there. Oh, and you live in a brick house! I am totally jealous, I have always wanted to live in a brick house.
Cute top Haze! I can’t wear coral or peach, but there are pinks I am able to wear, they just have to be bluey pink. I’m glad you had a good birthday, I hope it carries on for the rest of your year.
Well, I need to sift through the rest of my treasures and trinkets and try to find a place for everything. I am home alone, as #3 daughter has gone off to babysit and skiffman has yet to return from boat work. I may need to ingest some alcohol tonight. Not a lot, just a beer or two to help settle my day down. All there is in the fridge is Coors Light, so I can promise that there won’t be more than one or two drunk, it’s definitely not my favorite! Have fun kids, and I’ll probably peek in later.
Ta!
