Today has felt weird. I woke up feeling out of sorts in my body. I didn’t get up and walk. I barely got up to eat breakfast and get ready for work.
I did walk at lunch to the mailbox. And I decided that I’m going to try a twine solution to the way that water keeps collecting on the roof of my tarp shed. I think if I tightly loop twine around the top beam and the sidewall beam that might prevent the water from collecting. Worth a try.
Yesterday, I pulled the peaches I’d cut up from the freezer to the fridge. Today, I saw they were turning kind of brown as they defrosted. But they smelled good, so I decided I needed to get them converted into fruit leather tonight.
I spent about an hour after work blending them into a slurry and then cooking that slurry down until it was thick enough not to be runny when I spread it onto parchment paper for the dehydrator. It’s funny; the dehydrator’s instructions for making fruit leather just say to blend the fruit and then put the result on the tray. That resulted in a very runny mix that dried to a thin, shard-like ‘leather’ as opposed to the cooked version I did with the grapes. I think cooking the mixture down a bit makes sense. It concentrates the flavor and allows it to spread more easily.
I practiced my flute a bit before heading to choir practice. It was a good practice. I’m feeling more and more confident with the flute piece, and I’m feeling good about the songs that we did tonight. There are a couple of songs where I keep missing the final notes; I need to work on all the songs this week. Next week is our last regular rehearsal.
I told a couple of the women at choir about my mom’s birthday being yesterday and her deathday being tomorrow. i got some comfort which I sorely needed. I hope that I feel better in the morning, but I’m up late so I’ll probably feel crappy again. I might have a coffee, though I don’t have any milk. I should get more powdered cream. If I get half & half, then I feel obligated to use it before it goes bad and then I drink way too much coffee.
I did shoulder focused exercises when I got home for my daily Move U practice. I’m finding that my rib cage is giving me some twinges as I’m focusing on using the serratus anterior to support my scapula position. I think that’s a good sign. A sign that my muscle use patterns are shifting.
There were deer in my yard when I got home from choir. And fog on the road for the drive home. I hope I dream of Ambrose tonight.
