3-Day Weekend!!! 28 May 2016

A three-day weekend means a lot to me here, unlike in my regular life.  That is mostly because I do not have anything that I particularly need to do!  I do  not have my backlog of family history letters, research papers or books to scan and attach.   The [seems like] mountains of things to sort through and donate or discard are back in Missouri. In my lovely little apartment it takes me about 10 minutes to clean the bathroom and the kitchen. So what did I opt to do today?

This morning I tried making another batch of flax seed crackers with cinnamon and brown sugar.  While they are OK, they are not spectacular.  I need to tweek the recipe considerably, I think.  Using the oven would not have been a big deal today, except that the lock on the sliding glass door has decided it does not want to open.  Since it is a holiday weekend, I decided I would just use the air conditioner to counteract the oven heat.  Blessedly, that is working!!

I was almost out of cooked wheat and beans, so I quick soaked both, opting for dark red kidney beans this time, as the first time I made them here they turned out well. Tomorrow I will share them with my Cuban Sister.  The wheat is almost finished in the pressure cooker, and then I will do the beans.

I was on the phone quite a while this morning, and then called to see if Sister R would like to go out and explore where other grocery stores are located a bit closer to us.  She was agreeable, so we spent a couple of hours locating a very close Hispanic Market, a local grocer, a local warehouse-type store, and a fresh-foods market.  I found the items I had wanted from the grocery ads, as well as items I was hoping would be at this closer Hispanic Market.  We had a good time together, as we both felt like we did not want to spend the weekend just in our apartments. I am very glad I thought to ask her, and more glad that she accepted the invitation!  Two of the young elders came along as we were unloading the car, and they helped each of us carry our things to our apartments, which was a big blessing!

I indexed one batch and arbitrated two from the Freedman's Bureau records.  These are still on the old program, and will not be switched over to the browser based program.The target for completion is Juneteenth, June 19, which commemorates the abolition of slavery in the United States. I am glad I have gotten to help a little with that project.  There are other exciting projects coming up, and it will be nice to be able to do them on devices other than computers--nearly everyone could help that way!

I hope you all will have a very nice Memorial Day holiday!