Merhaba,
“Monday Monday, so good to me,
Monday Monday, it was all I hoped it would be”….EXCEPT that it started out with a big loss for the New England Patriots. Sorry Bruce!!! Other than THAT it was a very nice day.
Ru
It’s been a busy morning; pretty typical for Monday. As it’s winter and the sun rises later, so do Randal and I. But today I wanted to get a laundry washed and hung before the 9 am morning NET and 10 o’clock Turkish class, so I was up by 7 am ish. I did have to wait a bit to see if the weather was going to be “laundry worthy” before I actually started the machine.
Sometimes right and sometimes wrong…I usually use the “look out the window forecast.”
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The wind was blowing the clouds away and accuweather said there was to be sun, so I took a chance and did a load of laundry. |
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Neighbors off our bow. You can see how close the Migros grocery store is which makes running out for a few things very easy. |
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10 am cruisers who want meet at Sailor’s Point for a weekly Turkish lesson. |
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Zehra, our Turkish Language Teacher |
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Çὂk Gὒrὒltὒsὒ ve Ṣimṣek = Thunder and Lightening. Choke Gewereweltewesewe veh shimshek is how it sounds. We learned that an lots of other weather terms. We learned how to put words together into statements and then how to change the statement to a question. We worked hard! |
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Rick, Mary, Joanne, Dale and Diana and Zehra Hanim which is like saying Ms Zehra because last names aren’t used so much. |
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After class I took our recyclables to recycle. Anyone studying “garbology” would wonder about the lifestyle of cruisers. |
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Plastic Metal Paper |
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This is actually an underexaggeration! While most bins often have very little, the Glass bin is usually full to the brim. The two bottles of beyzade are actually ours! |
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Our friend Deena received a guitar for Christmas. Monday afternoons she comes for a lesson from Randal. I can hear her improving! |
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While I was at Turkish lessons, Randal was making apple pie…with corn syrup! It tastes great. By late afternoon this is all that’s left. Deena’s husband’s uncle and a friend of the uncle were coming for dinner and a visit so we sent four big pieces home with Deena. And then Kevin and Mai came by so they had to have some. So thank goodness most of it’s gone. My sweet intake is sky rocketing lately so the more pie we can “share,” the better. Anyone have any great recipes that call for corn syrup..other than pecan pie? That is our well-worn Betty Crocker Cookbook offering suggestions about apple pie. I say suggestions because Randal creates his own as he goes…like using cup of corn syrup along with the colled for cup of sugar. Just to absolutely make sure there’s enough “sweet” along with the apples. |
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Split, toasted simit with melted mozzarella cheese…and wine..the perfect dinner.. with salad. I’ve become addicted to simit and if there’s one on the boat, I’m gonna eat it. At least if I have it for my meal I can justify it to myself. The sesame seeds give it such great flavor and they’re much crispier than a bagel because they’re skinnier. |
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Tonight I’ll relax with a Hetti Wainthropp Investigates that my sister downloads into my dropbox. I am reading more these days, but it’s nice to watch a bit of tv and knit a few more rows of the vest I’m making. All those knitters at Wednesday Group inspired me. |
