I’m still in my VERY early morning wake-up pattern – 4 a.m. this morning, but it works with the heat wave. After coffee and a few quiet moments it is starting to get light and cool enough to do outside stuff… this morning checking the strawberry patch was on the agenda.  You can’t see in the photo but there were a couple of raspberries also!  I also messed with the motorhome as it is driving me crazy that I can’t get to the fuse box which I think has the fuse which I think blew causing the hydraulic failure – shop appointment next Tuesday and I guess I have to wait as this morning’s attempt was unsuccessful.  The last morning chore was a bath for Karl as he spent some of his morning finding something horrible to roll in…

While I’m on a food topic… a short story about THE blender…  A young woman that I worked with briefly and since have kept in touch with – now via her blog – took a nutrition course and then wrote (with the help of her new husband) a really great and fun poem about bioflavanoids.  And since bioflavanoids help with some minor problems I was having – I paid attention and did some more reading and started adding whole citrus particularly to my smoothies.  However, an older “regular” blender left things pretty thick and pulpy and not all that appetizing and to get things smooth I had to food process and then blend which left a lot of cleanup.  Then, oh darn, the blender gave up the ghost – quit, kaput.  So – great excuse to now buy my dream blender – a Vita-Mix – mondo, 5 hp blender said to liquify most anything – and it does!