Relaxing Sunday

 Easter weekend was very low-key, just like I like it. It rained Friday and Saturday. As we had nowhere to go, we missed nothing. I spent Sunday making potato salad as I was determined to have some. Tommy says he hates potato salad, so I just never make it. As you may remember, I questioned him about why he hates potato salad--hates boiled eggs in it, hates cold potatoes. My solution was to give him potatoes boiled for the dish, but hot and with no eggs. 

I spent hours, dicing potatoes, dicing celery, dicing onions, dicing boiled eggs, dicing two kinds of pickles, getting eyes and bad spots out of potatoes that Tommy peeled. I had slaw from the day before and tomatoes to slice. 

As I was mixing all this together along with MW, mustard, and a bit of vinegar, I forgot not to put the boiled eggs into the potatoes. However, I did manage to dip where only the onion was present, mostly. He informed me he dipped out the one tiny bit of yolk I left. 

We had a slice of ham, the kind sealed in heavy plastic, just one huge center cut slice that we shared. It was delicious, very relaxing not to have cooked all day. I am still exhausted from covid, so even going out to eat would have been tiring. 

Monday, I was taking a nap while Tommy got his own dinner. He said he dipped potatoes from the potato salad and heated it up. He did dip one dice of potato out at a time in order to avoid egg yolk. When I got up from my nap today, I had cold baked chicken and potato salad. In a bit I will have a salad, and an apple. 

I have a new sinus infection, so I have an antibiotic again. It is not covid, just my usual. 

My left knee, the good one, started collapsing on Friday, I think. By the time I got up on Saturday, it had quit. Then, it started again. So, I am using the walker permanently now. It will be fine and then hurt like a 9/10. I have never had to have a cortisone shot in this knee, but now may be the time. 

I had a tumble Saturday night that had nothing to do with the knee or disability, just a stupid move on my part. But, I don't feel like typing or thinking anymore tonight. Plus, I am still a bit traumatized. 

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Easter meal was delicious! We ended up with pork loin, potato salads, deviled eggs, cole slaw. I forgot the green beans, tomato. I was exhausted when it was all done because I waited until Sunday to make the potato salad. That was a lot of chopping. 

Tommy's bowl of potato salad was yellow-orange from all the mustard. He really helped me a lot with cooking. He brought things to me to chop and took potatoes back and put in the pot, salted it, took away potato peelings, brought celery, brought the onion. He washed two large bowls I needed for the potato salad. Well after eating, he washed the pot in which I cooked cabbage and the huge one where I boiled potatoes. 

Sweets: I bought Tommy a gold-covered Lindt Easter bunny that was in a little train. He shared it with me. I didn't even get the Jello dishes made, either. Those can be made another day. I decided to forego Easter candy this year. I miss it. 

Have you ever used celery to get the onion smell from your hands? It works. I took the end of one of the stalks and rubbed it on both hands. Then, I took a wilted top and rolled it between my hands almost like I was using the leaves to wash my palms. Tommy did not know why, but I asked him if he could smell onions on my hands. He said that my hands smelled like celery. Now, 15 minutes later, the celery smell is gone too, all without washing my hands. Did you know celery removes the stink of onions or garlic from your hands?

Shopping hint: While I am perfectly capable of using food coloring and vinegar to dye eggs, I have bought the dying kit on sale after Easter. One year, I bought 6 or so after Easter for ten cents each. I sent one to my daughter and used the others in subsequent years. I stored them where I kept the plastic wrap because I came home and put them there to keep them off the counter. There they stayed. I did give one to a friend with 6 children. At any rate, you might be able to get the kit cheaply for use next year.

I suppose this is the first year ever in the last 75 or so years that I did not have colored eggs for Easter. Sometimes, I have made Jello eggs and put them on a bed of green lettuce on the table. That did not happen, either. I am okay with that. 

While I was chopping celery, I chopped the whole head of celery. I saved back a bit from the potato salad to use in tuna salad or something else this week. While I was chopping, I should have chopped the last four of the free red onions. 

Even though it was cloudy all day before Easter, about 6 pm, the sun shone through the clouds and the clouds lessened. Then, on Sunday, the day was sunny and warm, but Sunday night, thunderworms developed. All in all, I was disappointed with the wet grass for children to hunt eggs, but it was not stormy all day like I expected. 

I cannot believe my oldest child turned 54 on Saturday! And his son will turn 16 this week. I now send gifts as egift cards from Amazon. 

How was your Easter?