Plants and ice cream.

Loves, my front foyer is becoming a jungle. I moved all the plants from the porch back into the house and had to get some grow lights for them all. The fiddle leaf fig and this pineapple plant both need a lot of light to pretend we are in the tropics all year round. I’m hoping to have a pineapple in like 2-3 years. I only get one per this plant, so I’m hoping that I get to eat it and not a squirrel. We’ll have to see.

We’ve been so, so busy this past week – Jeremy was out of town again to PA this time, we had take out twice this week – we usually don’t do takeout, but what can you do? This is the cute lucky cat display at our favorite Chinese place.

On Friday, Jeremy and Edda were all well enough to get their covid and flu shots and to celebrate (or compensate – oh yes, Jeremy just threw in an extra shingles shot, because, really, why not? we hate the shingles.), we went to Pike and Rose and ate out (!) and went to the dog park (Elka was thrilled!) and had ice cream. Jeremy, Edda and I are trying a new thing – to order modestly and take nothing home. Usually, we try to order a main dish for all of us and take the extra home, but this involves some willpower on our end to not eat all the fries and the food that you deemed “extra” and honestly, the fries are no good when you take them home. So for the three of us, we ordered two main dishes (chicken and veggie platter) and two sides (mac and cheese and fries) and we split them three ways. This way, we all got like 10 fries and Edda got a small-ish portion of mac and cheese and half of my chicken. And then we went to get ice cream. Edda and I usually get one mini ice cream each, but this time, we ordered one small cone (the next size up from mini) and I sheared the top ice cream off in a bowl for Edda and ate the rest of the ice cream with the cone myself. I think this saves on both money and calories, but none of the fun! Because you want the fun – it was such a nice night. I’m so happy Edda is well and enjoying fries and ice cream.