Last week of October 2020: Monday, the dietician at Davita stopped by to give my most recent lab reports. Phosphorus is a little high. Am I taking Selevemere with each meal. No, only at Breakfast. Why? Copay is over 70 bucks. She noted that I had my trailmix snack on the table. I said I ate that the last hour on the chair, so that I did not feel wiped out by the time I got home. She said that nuts have a lot of phosphorus in them and suggested that I eat a TUMs with them. Ok, I love tums and I shall substitute them for Selevemere when the bottle runs out! Tuesday I processed seven pounds of green tomato pickles, I got 7 pints of pickles and four pints of juice. I like to use that juice to put small onions or carrots. Makes a delightful pickle. I took two pints to Gail and Patty, they were a hit. I also took the last batch of Mexican Cheesecake. I hope they can taste the cream cheese as well as the cumin. My dialysis taste buds cannot. So not making that again. I was hoping to get my new glasses this week. Nope. I am not confident in driving if I cannot read street signs. Oy. They folks at Davita have beeb using my neck cannula. Because I have developed a really hard knot above the fistula that has a whistle. So I think I will be seeing a local surgeon who will first perform a fistulagram and then raise the vessel higher for easier access by the nurses and technicians. We are also starting later at 11:10 am, This gets me off the chair by 3:15 pm. I like it because I can get walkies in seven days a week rather than four.

Yay, I haz lappy!!!

Got the computer and I cannot seem to make the font tize larger in the Blog Smit! Mailed Lappy to Phil who turned it over to a friend who fixed the thing within 4 hours!! He put a free virus program called Avast. McAffeey kept firing up and interferring with stuff. The main problem was in the boot sector. He fixed that. It is now functioning very well. However I cannot figure how to make the zoom function work or make the font size change. Grrrrr. Also Blogger will now allow me to paragraph etc. I woke to a two part dream the other day. The first part was where I was in a room full of men. One very handsome man was sitting at the bar wearing a jacket mae of brown, tan, thin black line and cream. It was gorgeous. He also wore it over a cable knit sweat of cream colored wool. I could see every man plotting to purchase or make a similar jacket. (As if) The seccond part of my dream involved my neighbors across the street. We were going ree climbing in a lush forest. At one point, Gale handed me a phone and said, "It's your grandma." So I took the phone and chatted with y grandma Horn who died in 1982. I then said "I have to go,I saw three lilac bushes in bloom." The lical boshes were perfectly round growing in the tree and I wanted to get a lilac bloom to smell. A to Z dream site says that to see clothing is a symbole of public self and how you are perceived. to see a tree repesentes your achievements of career goals and attainment of position. As usual it is all about me.

I forgot to add this to the fruit cake sage

I had intended to include this in the fruitcake saga. When I worked in Dillingham, I discovered that holidays are a big deal. Christmas especially. The local religion is Russia Orthodox and one of the things that happens right after Christmas is a forty day fast. In the old days when food sources were not so plentiful, fasting helped the food stretch out during the winter. We had a choir come into the department to sing Carols, more like Russian Orthodox favorites. The priest came in dressed in his black cassock and black hat shaped like a brimless top hat. He carried the Russian Orthodox cross which is a regular cross with an additional slanted cross bar. One of the customs at work was that we drew names and were expected give a gift each day of the week. I decided to make Fruit Cake for the lady whose name I drew. I did not realize that the gifts were supposed to be different. I am pretty sure she was a bit disgusted by Friday. To divert for a moment, Janice Snow was in the habit of adding "ster" to anyones name, which she uttered in high good humor. For instance, Tim was Timster. Bob was Bobster. I was unfortunately called, "Roycester". sigh.. One day I received a gift from Karen. It was a can of smoked oysters. I was thrilled, I was gushing about how much I liked smoked oysters. Karen interrupted to say, "No, Look at the label!" She had used a marker to add R to the word oyster. Thus Royster. I nearly wet my pants.

FRUIT CAKE AND HOW I CAME TO LOVE IT

FRUIT CAKE: When I was a child, none of my extensive family ever made a fruitcake for Christmas. The first time I ever ate a piece of fruitcake it was grey, soggy, crumbling and the taste was overpowering with dates. Which I do not like. Many years later, in the 1970's, I ate a piece of fruitcake that was totally different. The recipe was from Letha Fashauer, first husbands great aunt. I begged for the recipe and it is as follows: Two cups sugar or Splenda Eight eggs, I like to use Jumbo. Two cups flour. Four teaspoons Vanilla. (I am going to add 1/2 tsp of salt.) Fruit is floured dates. Cup of raisens. Couple cups of walnuts. Red candied cherries Green candied cherries Candied pineapple. Mix well, use large bread pans. Bake one hour at 350 F. When cool, poke holes to absorb your favorite brandy. This year I decided to expeiment (Mom throws up hands in despair). I had purchased in interesting fruit nut mix of cranaberry raisens, cashews and almonds. I also had some dried mango. I had on hand almonds, macadamia nuts and walnuts. I wanted to make this very lemony, so I decided to use Lemon jello in liquid form and pour it over the cake. Then for the adult version, I planned on soaking the cake in Limoncello. Who knew Amazon would mail liquor to me? It tastes okay but okay is NOT good enough. It tastes flat and I intend to add the half teaspoon of salt. I shall leave out all nuts except walnut, I shall add dried pineapple, leave out the dried mango and I will stir the package of lemon jello into the batter. This will eliminate the layer of jello from the outside of the cake, which was just silly. I also have a bag of pitted Bing cherries, I may add them just for texture. I attempt this this weekend. I may purchase Kirsvasse from the liquor store. This might be sensational. Do not consume near open flame unless you truely wish to experience tongue flambe.