Going Nowhere

Vegetables peeled, sliced, oiled with E.V.O.O. and waiting to be roasted for dinner.
Rinse, peel as needed and slice to uniform thickness your choice of: sweet potatoes, carrots, zucchini, yellow squash, eggplant, turnips, rutabaga, green pepper, onions (quartered) or any root vegetable you prefer. Brush generously with olive oil and roast for 45-55 minutes in a 350 oven. Turn slices over after about 25 minutes. Serve warm.
Prep at least double the amount needed for dinner so that the leftover can be diced, or pureed, and dropped into broth for soup. One more way to extend the time and effort required to eat lots of vegetables.

Going nowhere today - the car is still at the shop getting a new battery. After DH’s forgetful phone-off-the-hook episode yesterday, he is now in charge. Service promised the car to be ready for pick up by 2:00 p.m. Until then, I can find a long-delayed job to do this morning.
Tried half-dozen times to log onto to Oprah’s classroom about A New Earth last night, never got anywhere. Then found that the class will be a free pod cast that I can download on the iPod. Much better, I can listen as I walk and avoid the web-overload problems.

DOQ board report for February reports that January’s Silent Auction made nearly $600 in revenue, Wow! Some much needed funds to augment the expense of the upcoming October Quilt show.

Tomorrow the ballroom dance class resumes for the last three weeks (6 sessions) of the term. Latin rhythms for this week and next, then the reviews for the final. Friday is Pop Quizz 3, another job I need to accomplish today. Effort must now focus on getting five couples for the Spring class. That term begins on April 23.

Why the E-life is so complicated I do not know. Weeks ago I said that my last podcast from Splendid Table was 1/25 and I had missed a couple of weeks. Now I can tell from the .com home page I have missed five weeks. Why? I log onto iTunes to get updated, nothing happens. Then I saw that I was missing recent episodes of The Way with Words too. What’s up??
After dinner last night DH logged on for me, noticed the discrepancy and hit the "refresh button." A button I did not know where or how it worked. Seconds later a number of recent podcasts were being downloaded to my computer (eventually the iPod). Over a month I had been listening and re listening to old segments of Good Food and The New Yorker wondering what was wrong. Later this week I get to listen to new episodes from Lynne Rosotto Kasper.

The Artist’s Date and the Culinary Date (Julia Cameron’s ideas) have been delayed for far too long. When the car is released from captivity I will immediately head for consignment and thrift shops to find a swim suit for my 88 year-old, 120 pound Mother. Since she does not swim and will likely wear it just once, I need a simple suit for the spa.

Yes, we are booked at the Tan-Tar-A Resort Spa at the Lake of the Ozarks in about a month. Two days, a spa package and time to see Spring in southern Missouri. While her birthday is in June, we’ll celebrate in April because I remember well what the heat and humidity in June can be in Missouri - you don’t want to be there.

I still believe that in April the Ozarks are the youngest of all lands of the earth.
- Charles Morrow Wilson, The Bodacious Ozarks