Administrivia: I’m not dead nor have I abandoned this blog

I’ll be doing catch-up posts … soon. Maybe today, maybe later. I was on vacation from the 18th-31st, part of that time with very limited wifi. It was fun, and after I’d been home for a day or so and mostly caught up on putting away things and doing laundry and so forth, I came down with what my daughter had on vacation. No fever, very sinus-y, makes everything that normally triggers my allergies ten times worse, just like with her. I spent a day and a half sleeping it off, and am now slowly getting back to normal, while also staying away from as many people as I can. I haven’t bothered to get tested for covid, and I understand that some might disagree with that, but I just cannot justify wasting testing resources on something this minor. If that changes, I will get tested.

The kids are back at school, and that seems to be going okay. I’m still waiting for A. to be eligible to be boostered.

In the meantime, I opened up the mystery vegetable box tetrapak — very small and very concentrated. I heated it up with a bunch of water, and then used the chicken, greens, black eyed peas and mushrooms from my Jan 1 cooking bonanza to make chicken soup. It was completely awesome and exactly what I needed.