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Hi Natty honey.  How are you today?  I pray that you are doing well.  The weather was nice and cool this evening, and I was in a fairly good mood, but now I'm not.  So please forgive me if I don't have much to say.  I love you, you are my girl, and I will marry you inshaAllah.  Please move your hand out of the fridge while I'm closing the fridge door.

We apologize for the interruption in our program

Hi there Natty honey!  What are you up to today?  How is school going for you?  I hope you are doing well, and everything is running smoothly for you.  It's just another average day for me.  I did harvest some coconuts early this morning after doing my chores.  It's time to make curry again, maybe I'll make coconut ranch dressing.  Hm.  The coconuts fell in the mud (which was knee deep) next door, and I fell in the mud trying to retrieve them.  That was annoying.  But after a hose down, I proceeded as usual with the rest of my morning.  I made egg and cheese quesadillas for lunch.  I had 3 of those, with my pickled peppers which are oh so good!  I was stuffed.  Then just now I had take out for dinner.  Fried noodles, which were oh so good!  I'm stuffed.

Voice training got cut short today.  A well placed lightning bolt shut down my Internet, and my set along with it.  Sorry folks, but Allah is The Boss.  Our program should proceed as normal tomorrow inshaAllah.

I really like this next snapshot.  I look so movie star-ish!  I'm using it as my wallpaper right now.

Even more soy

Hiya beautiful Natty!  How are you feeling today, my precious darling?  How are your studies coming along?  I hope you are doing and feeling absolutely fabulous.  I'm still clearing up my front yard, it looks like it will be a while before I remove everything.  Moving earth is a challenge, because I protected the peat pots with wire mesh, and now they're all grown in.  But this morning I spent the morning in the kitchen.  I whipped up another batch of "sambal tumis" (blended onions, chillies and "belacan" (fermented shrimp) fried in oil until saturated).  I find it to be a great go-to hot sauce, you can put it in everything.  I'm confident you will get addicted to it as I am.  When we are married inshaAllah, I will make large batches of the stuff along with others like marinara sauce, dough, ranch dressing, sausage etc.  Hey, I don't want to spend my whole life in the kitchen!  You must learn how to cook!  I will teach you.  Anyway, I used up what's left of the soy meal from my soybean project.  I am determined to master the soybean.  So I tried making veggie burgers today.  Soybeans have a lot of protein in them, so they taste great when browned.  Trouble is if they are undercooked, they become bitter.  So it's either brown or nothing.  No, not black.  Adding flour to the batter feels like cheating, because I don't want to make cake.  So it's going to take some practice to get the right blend.  So that's what I had for lunch.  Veggie burgers.  Keep the salt low when dealing with soybeans.  But for dinner, I had the real thing.  Steak.  Yum.  Want some?

That "smoky" flavor

Hiya Nattikins!  How are you doing, my beautiful precious one?  I hope you are doing great and everything is going great for you.  I'm doing all right.  It's been raining, so I stay indoors because I can't do any yard work.  I did my laundry in the morning.  Then I had BBQ chicken for lunch.  I have a little stone grill (stone lasts so much longer than metal) and I fire it up on the porch, out of the rain.  Ah, one of life's little pleasures, is grilling chicken and eating it at the grill.  It must be a primal sight, my squatting at the grill gnashing at a drumstick with a cat beside me waiting for scraps.  But few things are as blissful as eating fresh off the grill at the grill.  I have a great routine at making BBQ sauce.  I won't list the procedure here, but somehow it has that smoky flavor without using artificial smoke, like mesquite flavor etc.  One may argue that since I'm sitting at the grill, I get that smoky flavor from the actual smoke of the fire.  But no, the flavor is there even before I light the fire.  I don't know how it happened, it's just there.  One of life's mysteries.  I love BBQ chicken.  The tryptophan helps too.  I always sing well after enjoying a BBQ chicken lunch.  It calms my heart and thenceforth, my voice.  Want some?