Mind you, when I say cool, I mean “Hawaii cool,” not cold. I was a busy guy this morning, meeting with friends on Zoom way too early in the morning, then my ride. I was able to do a nice shorter route, but one with plenty of hills; by which I mean not Iowa type hills – endless that is.
No, I started with a nice ride around Diamond Head, then off to the back of Palolo Valley.
As you can see, there were some hills, but nothing hard. I’m working up to longer rides, and more hills. Right now, I’m mostly just getting my saddle toughened up and enjoying being on my bike again.
The rest of my day was busy too…no nap!
I cleaned up, of course, but then had to attend a training session for some volunteers for an organization to which I belong.
Later in the afternoon, I headed over to the office. Or, more precisely, I went to the roof of the building in which I work. We have an employee garden up there and weekend afternoons are the days I get to water the entire garden and tend my little patch.
I’m only growing a few things as I only have a couple of square feet. I’ve got mamaki, eggplant, Chinese parsley, and, nothing. I had some Chinese cabbage, but they were attacked by something and looked horrid today; I pulled it.
But the eggplant! Yum. I had two ready to go, all nice and shiny. So after finishing the garden chores I headed home and cooked them up. I’m not a recipe guy, I just go for it. This time I just fried up little circles of eggplant after dipping them in an egg, cream mixture, and dusting them with almond flour. The secret today (it changes), was a hint of cinnamon. Yep.
Anyway, the eggplants were delicious.
I’ve got to figure out how to dry out the mamaki leaves for tea, that’ll come next after say…
Aloha!
Slower, cheaper, less useful…