Cat chaos

Hi Natty!  How's it going?  Staying busy?  Please be careful with your health.  It's Friday here today.  It's nice and cold, and I should be in a good mood.  But trying to avoid the crowd kind of frustrated me a little.  It's almost sunset now, and I'm feeling good now.  My cats are extra chaotic nowadays.  I expect that while I'm trying to cook, but during feeding time I have a system so everybody gets to eat.  You know cat politics right, what they all want is somebody else's food.  The kittens are most passionate about this.  I've seen them eat.  What they do is stuff their mouths first as fast as they can without swallowing so they can't swallow, so they have to spit some food out in order to swallow, then someone else gets the spat out food if they don't swallow fast enough to reclaim the food that they could not swallow.  Make sense?  So I isolate the kittens in the kitty litter room while I feed the adults first, then bring their food to them last.  Today they burst out of the room like a cat explosion and attacked Lookie's food bowl, so I had to put their food in front of Lookie so she can eat somewhat of something.  Such passion.

The rainbow cobra

Hi Natty!  How are you today, my darling?  I hope you are keeping safe and healthy.  What are you having for dinner?  I'm fasting today, and I bought some takeout rice for dinner.  Most people like lavish spreads for breaking fast, but I prefer to chug some water, pray, then eat whatever.  Buying takeout means I don't have to cook, so I cut the grass in the evening.  Now I'm just waiting for them to call the sunset prayer.

Have you ever seen the rainbow cobra in your dreams, Natty?  Here's how to gauge snakes in dreams:

1.  Small snake: treachery and deceit.

2.  Human sized snake: serious illness.

3.  Giant snake: trouble between countries.

If you see a snake in a dream, you must kill it!

Featuring Mary Unknown7 as Little Red Riding the Hood!

Hi Natty

How are you today, Honey?  I hope all is well with you.  I don't have much to report today.  It's another lazy day for me, I'm just not motivated to do any labor.  I did my laundry, today is laundry day.  It was a cold, rainy morning.  I like it cold, but my poor cats don't like the cold.  It warmed up in the afternoon, though.  No yard work in the evening, like I said.  I did set up the grass cutter for more work tomorrow perhaps.  Tomorrow I will be fasting.  It's an optional fast, for the day before the Eid which is Friday.  It's a public holiday, but people aren't as fanatical about this Eid as they are about the one at the end of the fasting month.  This Eid marks the end of the Hajj ritual, but I don't think there was a Hajj this year because of the virus.  Anyway, I made poor man's pizza gain, with breadsticks.  I thought it would be an adventure to coat the breadsticks with breadcrumbs, but it wasn't.  It tasted like breadsticks.  Want some?

Poor man's pizza

Hi Natty!  How are you, my love?  I want you to know that I love you with all of my heart.  Perhaps you think of me sometimes.  Please be happy and healthy.  I'm taking it easy today.  No going out, no laborious projects.  I wanted pizza for dinner, so that's how I spent my evening.  It was a poor man's pizza, I'm afraid.  The dough I made myself, the basil I grew myself, the tomato sauce was of average price (when tomatoes are cheap, I can make sauce for cheap but not today), the sausage I made myself.  It's sausage left over from your birthday which I kept in the freezer.  It's a good recipe, and it's halal.  I didn't use Ramly beef, folks: it's always sold out!  It's the cheese that makes my pizza a poor man's pizza: I can't afford mozzarella, so I used sliced cheese.  It doesn't bother me all that much.  It tastes cheesy, and it's pizza.  That's good enough for me.  Alhamdulillah.

Qur'an 20200728

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

23.  That is whereof Allah gives glad tidings to God's servants who believe and do righteous deeds.  Say, "No reward do I ask of you for this except the love of those near of kin."  And if anyone earns any good, We shall give him an increase in good in respect thereof, for Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Ready To Appreciate.

The Consultation 42:23

Monday

Hi Natty!  How are you?  Is everything easy and enjoyable for you?  I hope so.  It's a busy Monday here for me.  I did a lot of driving around in the morning.  I paid bills, picked up my Dad's prescription, bought fuses and groceries, and bought my lunch which was takeout rice with fried chicken and lots of gravy.  I also went hunting for burgers, but there's none to be found.  Every place I went to was sold out.  Must be a burger festival in town or something.  I wasn't that busy in the evening, so I made chicken and lentil soup.  The lentils had been soaking for a day, and the bubbles spilled over onto my counter top.  Lentil bubbles have a powerful scent to them.  I wish I had remembered to buy milk, but I had some butter so I hoped that would be milky enough (or buttery enough).  Today I used "budu" (fermented fish sauce, or it could even be anchovy bouillon) to flavor the soup, a local flavor which I am fond to use in my ramen.

I fried up garlic in butter, then added the blended lentils and onion to slow cook.  You have to keep stirring lentil soup, or it will stick to the bottom.  Lentil soup is nice and thick, and I ate it for dinner before I took my shower, because soups heat you up.  And boy, was I sweating.  It was OK.  You usually need to add sourness to lentils, but my bottle of "budu" has tamarinds in it so that was sour enough.  I wish I had used milk though.

Qur'an 20200727

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

15.  Now then for that, call and stand steadfast as you are commanded.  Nor follow their vain desires but say, "I believe in the Book which Allah has sent down, and I am commanded to judge justly between you.  Allah is our Lord and your Lord.  For us our deeds, and for you your deeds.  There is no contention between us and you.  Allah will bring us together, and to God is the final goal."

The Consultation 42:15