Go-with-the-flow means cooking my own dinner

Hi Natty!  How's it going?  Are you having tons of fun?  I hope you are healthy and having a marvelous time.  What are you having for dinner?  I sure wish you would take snapshots of the food you eat when are eating out, at a tropical paradise at that.  I had to do some running around in the evening.  I blew up the wheelbarrow tire yesterday, so I had to install a new one.  While I was out, I wanted to get some takeout fried noodles.  When I got there I saw that they had no noodles, so I didn't want to wait in line for them to tell me that they were out of noodles.  So what's the backup plan?  While driving home I thought about that, and decided on fried chicken.  I passed by KFC, and thought it was too expensive.  Fried chicken is fried chicken, you know what I mean?  I was sure there would be something local on the way home.  Well, there wasn't.  I took a right turn, then took a left turn, then went straight past the light, and didn't come across any fried chicken.  I should have bought KFC when I had the chance.  In the end, I had sardine sandwiches for dinner.



Mary's hair looks a bit primitive in today's snapshots.  That's because it was originally pink cyan and I colored it black.  It's gotta be black hair, y'know.

Cat chaos

Ah Natty!  Back to the beach!  I'm happy to see that you're working.  You must enjoy being back at the tropical paradise again.  It does look nice and clean over there.  The models look well-chosen!  I hope you are feeling great and enjoying yourself.

I woke up at 4 am as usual, but to surprise in the kitchen.  The kittens have learned that food comes wrapped in plastic, and that gnawing at that plastic breaks it open and the food spills out.  These kittens were born to mice probably!  I had a fresh bag of rice sitting on the cooler, and woke up to the kittens chowing down on and in a mess of raw rice.  So I had to clean that up at 4 am, and clean up poop mixed with raw rice at 4 pm.  The kittens are growing up and getting bigger, and getting into more mischief as kittens do.  I'm glad they are happy.  I had to hide all food packages in the drawer.  I took Bro outside to ready him for a male cat's destiny.  He's still so cute and fluffy, it's a shame he's going to grow into an ugly tomcat.  Yeah, I've seen his father.  An ugly white tomcat up the road.  Here are some snapshots of his day outside.  That's such a fluffy tail!  That black cat is my brother's cat.  She's just here to poop on my porch.

Cream of chicken and lentil soup

Hi Natty!  Yes Honey, I listened to your podcast.  Are you hungry?  I was looking into my cooler at whatever was left in there, and I had an idea.  All I needed was a pint of milk, so I went out and bought one.  What I learned from lentils is that lentils will not be cooked in non-traditional ways.  Therefore, lentil soup.  Now the boneless chicken breast I always buy is not skinless.  I usually chop up the skin and fry them up crispy to make artificial bacon bits for my ramen.  But I thought it would go better with lentils if I let them stay soft and white.  After soaking the lentils, I blended them in milk as fine as possible.  I could have bought cream, but the lentils add thickness to soups.  Then after frying up the chopped chicken skin and chopped garlic, I added the blended lentils.  Yeah it was so thick, I could stand a spoon in it.  So I had to add water.  It didn't take too long to cook at low heat, but it needed to be constantly stirred or the lentils would cake at the bottom of the pot.  The only thing left was bouillon, and it was a success.  Alhamdulillah!  Served with fresh home made pita bread.  Very filling, very milky, very mild!

Thank you for your love

Hi Natty!  I hope you are feeling healthy and happy.  I want you to know that I think of you always.  I get unhappy and dismayed that I have no money to marry you, but I must live this path because the music is from Allah.  Please have faith that Allah will bring us together inshaAllah.  Thank you for your love.

Floofy had been overdue for a bath.  She's been suckling the kittens, and she started to smell like stale kitten saliva.  The fans who know my cat know that Floofy has an abnormal digestive tract, and kibble could kill her.  So I feed her only diced raw chicken breast now, and her health has been so much better.  I try to keep watch on her routine, and this morning I felt uncomfortable with the amount of poop in her tummy so I decided to give her an enema.  Boy, that was a mess.  Plus there wasn't a dangerous amount of poop in there, so I was being a paranoid mother.  But she finally got that bath, and now she smells so much better.

Ya Allah, thank You for the music.
Thank you to the Jap kids for being so cute and pretty.

Qur'an 20200627

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

64.  Say, "Is it someone other than Allah that you order me to worship, o you ignorant ones?"

65.  But it has already been revealed to you, as it was to those before you, if you were to falsely worship, truly fruitless will be your work, and you will surely be in the ranks of those who lose.

66.  No but worship Allah, and be of those who give thanks.

The crowds 39:64-66

Hi Natty

How are you today?  I hope all is well with you.  I want you to know that I love you with all of my heart, and everything will turn out all right for us inshaAllah.  Please love me too.  I'm watching "Cheers" on TV right now.  It's been an easy going day.  Or shall I say a lazy day.  I wanted to cut the grass, then I didn't the time to do so.  I got grumpy thinking about the labor, then I cheered up a little after postponing the labor until tomorrow, then I got grumpy again when I thought about doing the labor tomorrow.  That's life, I guess.  But the night is for watching TV and computer work!  Yay!  Dinner was egg and chili burritos.  The tortillas were too thick again.  You want one?

What doesn't kill me doesn't necessarily make me stronger

Hi Natty!  How are you today?  I hope all is well with you.  Me, I'm still a bit woozy  from yesterday's hike.  Yeah, it was just a lousy 2 km pushing a motorcycle.  I used to walk miles and miles uphill and through snowstorms.  Ain't no mo!  I got through the day OK, but I didn't cut any grass.  I just did some pruning for my mother, and that was it for yard work today.  Do you recognize that quote?  "What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger".  That's Nietzsche. Since that quote crept into popular music, that's probably the only thing he's remembered for.  I used to march miles and miles through the streets while reading Nietzsche in my jungle boots, using my peripheral vision to keep an eye on traffic.  Boy, I was an idiot when I was your age.  Now that I'm older, I think Nietzsche was an idiot.

Qur'an 20200625

Qur'an 20150312

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

53.  Say, "O servants who have transgressed against their souls!  Despair not the mercy of Allah, for Allah forgives all sins, for God is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

The crowds 39:53

Gardening

Hi Natty!  How are you, my beloved?  The weather must be awesome right now over there in Vancouver.  Have you been enjoying your back yard?  I hope you are turning your wonderful little space into a work of art.  Beautiful flowers!  Please plant some strawberries for me!  A small space is easier to tend by yourself.  Here I have to keep up with the grass, and maybe a few times I have room in between grass cutting to do other stuff.  But this place can't stop looking like it needs a bulldozer and a sandblaster, plus a team of lumber jacks.  I'm just one guy.

My motorcycle had a flat tire, and I had to push it to the repair shop today to get a new tube, which is 2 km away.  That old tube was due, it was at least 3 years old on heavy use.  I used to push the motorcycle quite often (I'm quite obtuse with automobile maintenance), but I finally learned how to prolong the life of my tire tubes.  That was years ago, now I'm older.  4 individuals offered to tow me, but that meant I had to mount the motorcycle to steer it and my weight would have sliced open that flat tire.  So I had to decline their offer, and push the motorcycle the whole 2 km.  That was really nice of them though.  Alhamdulillah.

Do you remember my blogging about the beauty contest?  There is a thread in the "Your Avatar" section in Second Life forums where people show off their avatars.  Of course, they put in countless hours of work on the appearance of their avatars, and are very sensitive and protective of them.  Some of those avatars are truly breathtaking works of art.  Check it out, this thread is only 3 years old but it's on its 1372nd page!  It's called How does your avatar look today?  People often get into emotional squabbles and much catfighting goes on, I often have no idea why.  So some people start new threads from this main thread where they can police the posts, and one can only say nice things.  I love the drama, though!  I would never view any of those milquetoast threads.  It's the drama that made that main thread so hot!  Whoever rules that thread is clearly the superstar of it.