Today was a pretty uneventful day. Del worked, and I did laundry and walked to the open air market, the Humana, and Iki. It was relatively warmer today, felt like 14 most of the day. My first stop was at the Humana, where I bought a muffler that is twice as long as I am tall. I figured it might shrink, but I threw it into the wash as soon as I got home, and it didn't. I figure it will keep me warm about the head and shoulders. When it gets past muffler weather, I will unravel it and turn it into something. Then on to the open air market where I bought a beautiful pair of hand knit mittens to wear over my leather gloves. The lady at the stall thought that was really strange. She kept shaking her head and demonstrating taking off the gloves and putting the mittens on. I kept saying the Lithuanian word for "cold" and shivering dramatically in hopes that she would understand. 16 lita later, I was off to the meat market, waving at her with happy hands. I also stopped by to say laba diena to the suspender man.
I bought bacon, a sausage recommended by the bacon man's stall neighbor and a small piece of fresh ham. I also bought a small piece of sause - the pig parts jello I talked about before. It was quite tasty with vinegar and saltine crackers. It tasted very much like it did when I was a child, except that there was neither red nor black pepper involved. This is not a very peppery country. I may start carrying a shaker of black and a shaker of red pepper in my day pack for emergencies. The food is delicious, but when you eat pepper on everything, including watermelon and cantelope, pepper is not optional. I heard Cokie Roberts, say on tv that she carries a small bottle of tabasco in her purse for bland food emergencies. I was told that saltines are a rather new thing here. These taste just like Premium saltines, and each large package is made up of little packages of 4 cracker rectangles. It's like those expensive forced moderation packages of various snacks in the US. Because there are only four crackers in the package, I can be quite satisfied with four crackers, and they stay really fresh. I stopped at the Iki for milk and toilet paper, etc. and then home.
Thank goodness we have the new Iki, because when I turned on the gas to light the eyes of the stove to make dinner, the Bic stove lighter was empty. I had seen a box of matches in a drawer, so I thought it was no problem, but there was only one left in the box. I used it to light one eye and a twist of paper to light the others. Del went out to take the trash- about 2 blocks- and then ran into Iki to get matches to hold us over until we get back to Hyper Maxima for a replacement lighter thingy. By the time he got home, dinner was ready - chicken breast, broccoli, beet salad and potatoes.
We Skyped with Daryl Lyn and Tommy, with a brief appearance from the bride to be. They have had the stomach flu from guess where, but are all better now.
Give us a Skype if you get a chance. bettymae62 We would love to hear your news.
In case you forgot, my spell checker still speaks only Lithuanian, so I'm relying on my own spelling and proof reading skills, or actually lack of them. Sorry.
Enjoy your Sunday!
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