Monday: clean, dreams, cooking, resting

Things got clean again around here...

and I am almost caught up on laundry... 

I ordered groceries, 

I can't tell you what a blessing it is to be able to

order groceries online for delivery later this week.

Seriously wonderful.

I find that ever summer, perhaps about this time,

I don't remember, I feel like I hit a wall in terms of 

energy and I think it directly corresponds to heat rising! 

So I am dreaming of so many things...

I really want to finish my goddaughter's quilt... that I have been

working on since 2015! 

I also want to cook more... I have been reading my two Indian cookbooks

and have ordered a few more cookbooks (one is more Asian, three American)

and I am hoping, dreaming, of making the following:

*vegan stove-top naan (after looking at some recipes I am going to make my own version)

*a potato and cauliflower Indian dish

*a mushroom curry

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I was reading over an interview that lead me to discover a new to me cooking 

blog (not been updated in a couple months) and between reading

various things, I got this sudden sense of 

 I can do this too - meaning, I can take recipes, make them as

I wish (i.e. change them to fit what I need/want to do)

 and learn and continue to share here, etc...  

Upon thinking about the many things I have made, I realized that

this is not new for me... the changing recipes... but it is still

a joy to realize and to look forward to more culinary cookbook reading... 

and dreaming!!! 

I've been checking the shipping status for the new to me cookbooks, 

I am still researching 

over-the-top-of-a-gas-stove-top grill and griddle options,

I have a few things I have read that I want to make... 

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I feel like I am stuck between various dreams and projects...

writing (essays in editing and writing),

cooking and baking (I am continually drawn to cookbooks, food writing, baking, cooking)

sewing/quilting...

The ongoing 'project health' (exercise + eye health saga) 

plus my proclivity to make messes it seems.

I turn around and clutter followed me while I was unawares. 

You know, life.

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And it's a holiday week here in the States and Mr Husband has more vacation days

this week than not, so cooking and baking are, of course, on my mind...

How to get this all to come together,

well. God knows.

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tomorrow is St John's day. 

I am so glad.

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Praying that you will have the comfort and help for whatever

you are facing right now...

Lord have mercy on us!