When recovering from a cold...

Cleo meow-talking, wondering where our

4 nieces went a day after their visit to us!

Mr. Husband took me out on Monday for Canadian Thanksgiving

to the diner, as I relapsed with my cold and was unable to make anything for it.

I had a lot of soup, tea with honey (and a few things of what a local friend

calls 'garlic tea': steeped 10 minutes minced garlic clove, honey, lemon and 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper),

and a little bit of medicine (first lots of Advil c+s, then the one pictured).

I cooked slowly on the stove a chicken and rice soup:

3 or so cloves of garlic, sliced ginger, some mushroom cleaned and chopped,

chicken thighs cut into 3 sections each, left over cooked basmati rice, 

carrots peeled, cut and sliced, a peeled, sliced and chopped onion, water, 

a carton of organic chicken broth, salt and pepper. 

Enjoyed, put in cartons and much frozen for future meals! 

I dreamed of making granola that my sister-in-law told me a recipe

for and of having dairy again...

I also researched and discovered a cleaning supply that will

care for my enameled Dutch oven when it gets

white spots on the inside.

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My cold is pretty much gone now and I am hoping

to play catch up with the many things I was unable to do while ill.

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I am grateful to God for all the blessings I have,

including a home to rest in, hot tea and soup and 

the many other blessings He has heaped upon me,

unworthy though I be!