Random

Yesterday, we went to Walmart and Sunflower Market in Santa Fe. I bought some antibiotic ointment and hydrocortisone cream for the rash on my chin. I wonder if the hypoallergenic, pierced earrings that I started wearing every day could cause a chin rash? Seems they would cause a rash near my ears if anything.

Met a Syrian guy in Sunflower. He saw me looking at the tabouli and Lebanese salads and advised me that I could make it more cheaply and better at home. He's right. I was looking for something to eat in the car on the way home. I ended up buying brown rice spicy tunacado sushi which was yummy and I can't make that at home! I'd like to hire that guy as my cook. He was buying ingredients to make stuffed koosa (squash). That's a time consuming dish.

Today, spouse and I went to the library where I loaded up on books and to Smith's where I bought some ingredients to make salads with a Middle Eastern motif. Then we walked 4 miles round-trip on the sewer treatment plant road. Road conditions were perfect.

We're invited to Perry's Grandma's for Christmas dinner. I'll bring over the salads as our contribution and for my dinner.

Tonight's dinner is swordfish steak, lobster tails, baked potato, salad and a cooked vegetable concoction of squash, onions, garlic, parsley, red chile and corn relish.

I'm discovering that even though I dearly love my MSR Denali Classic snowshoes, the bindings are less than kind to my right foot. I notice soreness in my right foot after the recent days of snowshoeing. I'll try wearing the bindings more loosely to see if that helps. I may have to buy different snowshoes if I expect to keep snowshoeing. My original foot problem ( a grab bag of posterior tibial tendon dysfunction and plantar fasciitis) began the day after a snowshoe on Martin Luther King Day.