Steak and cheese sandwiches

 

Hi Natty!  How are you, my darling?  Is everything going smoothly for you?  I do hope so.  Please be vigilant about taking care of your safety and health.  Do you like steak?  I love steak!  I had a craving for steak and cheese sandwiches today.  I think steak and cheese sandwiches are pretty easy, as long as you keep the ingredients top quality and the beef tender.  That video above seems like a good recipe, I'm sure the food was good.  I on the other hand, I can't afford ribeye.  But I do what I can with what I can afford, so I transformed my bulk roast beef recipe into steak.  It turned out to be a success, alhamdulillah.  What would have made it perfect was mushrooms, and perhaps more butter.  Maybe I will go out and get some tomorrow.  Would you like a steak and cheese sandwich?

Not much going on

 Hi Natty!  How are you, Honey?  I hope everything is going well for you, and you are feeling good.  There's not much going on here for me, just the usual.  I corrected that typo I made yesterday!  I can't believe I didn't see it.  Actually, I do believe I didn't see it.  I did more burning in the evening.  I almost have the entire crown of that dead tree removed!  Now I have room to maneuver the weed whacker in that area.  The trunk is going to have to stay there until I can buy a chainsaw.  Not much on the menu today.  Just rice for lunch, and steak and fries for dinner.  Mild stuff, my stomach will love me for it.  Anyway, that's all I have to report today.  I love you!

Congratulations

 Hi Natty!  Congratulations on your new enterprise!  I am sure that you are going to do absolutely fabulous inshaAllah!  I'm also sure that you know precisely what you are doing because you have a masters at it, so you're not going to hear anything out of me about how to run your business.  Is that a toothbrush?  Wow, I've only known plastic toothbrushes all my life.  I'm still using the same toothbrush for a year now, the second from a pack of 7 that I bought at the RM2 store a couple of years ago.  You mostly have detergents and toiletries... how do you feel about bleach?  I can't live without bleach.  I've got to have a general disinfectant so it's bleach, to get rid of sliminess and poopy scents.  Do you have an alternative?

How are you at money management?  I don't keep a ledger or anything like that, but something is better than nothing so I use my tax forms as my personal ledger.  June is taxes time for me, so I give a copy of the form to the taxman and I keep a copy for myself.  I'll admit that being alone and poor makes the task of accounting simple.  I have hope that Allah will grant me wealth soon, inshaAllah.  I can't get married if I continue to be kept poor as I am now.

A hot day

 

Hi Natty!  How are you?  I hope you are doing well and enjoying yourself.  It's a hot day here today.  Hot weather puts me in a bad mood, plus I had to labor.  But I'm smiling!  I'm smiling!  Can't you see me smile?!  I've had some time to cool off and mellow out.  I made some steak and eggplant calzones for dinner.  I forgot to pull the dough out of the cooler to rise, but oh well.  Would you like one?  I think you would like them.  Anyway, I'm going to try and nap now.  I love you, Natty.

Qur'an 20210603

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

222.  They ask you concerning women's courses.  Say, "They are a hurt and a pollution," so keep away from women in their courses, and do not approach them until they are clean.  But when they have purified themselves, you may approach them in any manner, time or place ordained for you by Allah.  For Allah loves those who turn to God constantly, and God loves those who keep themselves pure and clean.

The Heifer 2:222

Meanwhile about 50 years ago

 

Hi Natty!  Oh, you look so beautiful!  You look just like a movie star.  That is definitely a movie star's nose.  It's like a Japanese anime nose.  That suit looks pretty sharp, too.  I guess we all know what the next outfit is going to be for Mary's avatar.  I'll pick out a nice suit for her later after this inshaAllah.  I'm doing OK over here.  It's a hot day, and I had some errands to run in the morning.  It was dry enough to do some burning in the evening, so I continued work on that fallen tree.  That's a lot of firewood, Natty.  I want to do controlled burning too, so I can kill off some unwanted plants.  I bought takeout rice for lunch.  For dinner, I made some beef and eggplant tacos using mini pita bread for the shells.  I need to figure out something to curl the shells so I can make hard shell tacos.  I heated up some of that roast beef I made the other day.  Yeah I know folks, the beef is going to get hard and dry when you drain off the drippings then freeze it.  Just rehydrate it after defrosting, by slowly boiling about a cup of meat in half a cup of water until the water almost evaporates.  You will find that it will get soft enough to cut with a spoon again.

Qur'an 20210602

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

219.  They ask you concerning booze and gambling.  Say, "In them is great sin, and some benefit, for mankind, but the sin is greater than the benefit."  They ask you how much they are to spend.  Say, "What is beyond your needs."  Thus does Allah make clear to you God's Signs, in order that you may consider.

220.  About this life and the Hereafter.  They ask you concerning orphans.  Say, "The best thing to do is what is for their good."  If you mix their affairs with yours, they are your brethren.  But Allah knows the man who means mischief from the man who means good.  And if Allah had willed, God could have put you into difficulties.  God is indeed Exalted in Power, Wise.

The Heifer 2:219-220