Just another routine entry

[magid]

Busy evening last night, mostly with mundane things: a stop at Paper & Provisions to get a new bag of flour (also more paper goods, etc), quick dash to the supermarket for eggs, farm pickup (and compost dropoff), then to the Diesel to actually see people for a bit before more usual life stuff.

I'd called the nurse yesterday morning, and by the evening, I picked up a prescription of methylprednisolone, a course of pills designed to relieve the intense itchiness that has been mine. I took the first 6 pills after dinner (I'm supposed to take them after food. It's a tapering course of pills, over 6 days.)(the pills are tiny, but uncoated, so leave a bitter taste in the back of the mouth... so I have to have something after, as well as before...), and was a ble to sleep relatively well through the night. This morning before putting on cream or the second dose my legs are mildly itchy, but more of a surface itch than the deep I-want-to-flay-my-legs sort of itch. Hooray for progress. And I promise to stay to very well marked trails from now on!

Some of the yellow heirloom tomatoes have a light reddish blush inside, just a slight banner of their biological past, or something.

Rose of Sharon has such beautiful flowers. I've seen them in white, pink, and purpl e, and the shape is just lovely. A mess to clean off the sidewalk as the season ends, though.

Mood: nutmeggy chocolate chocolate bread pudding

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[queue.livejournal.com]

I love that little bit of red inside the yellow tomatoes. It really looks amazing, to go along with the amazing taste.

[pinkfish.livejournal.com]

When I was a kid, we grew tomatoes of different colors in our garden, but they didn't have that multicolor look that the tomatoes that are labelled "Heirloom" in the supermarkets today have. One year, we had some tomatoes that turned a different shade of green when they ripened. We would make multicolored salads made only of tomatoes. Each had a different flavor, so the salad was quite varied.

[magid.livejournal.com]

The yellow ones only have a bit of a blush on the inside, sort of an irregular streak down the middle flesh of the tomato, completely nonvisible on the outside (that is, for the yellow ones that have that blush at all).

One week we got yellow heirloom tomatoes, a couple of kinds of heirloom red tomatoes, and some dark dark almost-black at the top, called Black Krim, which looked kinda odd, but tasted good. I haven't had any green-ripe tomatoes, though.
(Hm, perhaps I need to go to a farmer's market tomorrow...)
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