Monday, May 19, 2014

Mas Inferma

It's been a long, hard week. My sickness was not over as quickly and easily as I had hoped. Instead, I went slowly downhill all week. Toby told someone who asked about me that my "wheels had come off."  Jes and Ranger were good company for the week. We pretty much curled up in the recliners and read and slept all week. I finished my "Turn Right at Machu Picchu." It was a good read - made me look forward to our trek into Machu Picchu. On the other hand I feel like I have some sort of Inca curse. First I pull my hamstring causing me to have to lay off my exercising for a few weeks. Then when I'm getting back into the swing of things, I get a sinus infection and run a fever for a week. Am I going to be physically up to this hike? Kind of scares me.  I finally broke down and went to the doc on Friday. He wrote a prescription for amoxillion. The fever was still high on Friday night, but Saturday I was better - just whipped.  Today I am much better, even went to exercise, but I'm coughing and hacking. Did I mention I was a bit whiney.

Jesse took off to OKC for the summer. She will work and live there as she has done in summers past. I know she enjoys her time there. Poor Grandma, what will she do without Jesse this summer?


6 comments:

Stefan said...

My niece and her boyfriend were living in OKC for three months this year. They had some contract job with the State. They rented a place downtown that was brand new, and the pictures sure showed a fancy apartment. They didn't like the weather though, as it was always cold and dreary out. Finally they made it back to California, and are snuggled back in the Bay area. I guess it was their big adventure to the midwest, after leaving Baltimore (before the next hurricane).

Stefan said...

Oh, P.S., I saw pictures of Grandma and her dancing partner! I think she will be just fine, hee. Hope you get well and enjoy the vacation!

Bag Blog said...

Downtown OKC is a very cool place to be with a river walk, restaurants, pubs and a great night life. My daughter loves riding her bicycle in that area and then on down the river with its nice trails. This spring has been cooler than usual and a bit windy, but "dreary" is not the word I would have used. Oh well, it could have been temps in the 100's, which is not much fun.

Jo Castillo said...

Ah, hope your well recuperated. Amoxicillin doesn't make your tummy feel better!

OKC is great, I can see why Jesse likes the riverwalk. Too bad we are missing the tournament. We spent happy hours there. The Horns play Tech tonight. It's on Fox College sports which we don't get. I'll have to suffer the radio via internet.

Your Peru excursion sounds great. I can't wait to hear about it. If it is the right season, I love the choclo, corn on the cobb. It has bigger kernels and is a bit like Indian corn, not as sweet as here. I just loved it. They have a soup that is much like posole, made with the big corn, dry, called Fricase. It has a couple of the freeze dried potatoes, chuño, thrown in. Pork and red peppers. Very good. The chuño is dried on the altiplano, they squeeze out the liquid and air dry them. Ends up looking like little black prunes sort of. Gene never liked them. They were OK in the soup, but I liked when they fried them with onions and served as a side dish. I loved the day bread that the poor people eat. Maraquetas. Hard on the outside and a bit like a biscuit on the inside. Shaped like a football. Another favorite was humintas, fresh corn tamales of sorts. Made with ground fresh corn, a bit of anise and sugar, stuffed with fresh cheese and cooked in the corn husks in a triangle shape in the ovens like in Taos or steamed like tamales. So good with coffee. Ohhhh, my mouth is watering. Guess I will go get a rice cake with my coffee. :(

Bag Blog said...

Jo, I just sent you an email, since I was thinking of you. I love it when you share your tips on what to eat and such in South America. Toby and I are willing to try anything. The humintas sound wonderful. The writer of "Turn Right at Machu Picchu" makes a joke about how people in SA grow some of the best coffee in the world, but they drink Nescafe.

Jo Castillo said...

This made me smile. I used to drink café con leche in the mornings at hotels. It was Nescafe made with hot milk. I liked it, sort of like cocoa only mocha flavor. Ha. Ah, they serve cui (sp?) also called conejo which is rabbit. It is guinea pig, so watch out for that. Gene can tell you a good story about eating cui if he hasn't already. :)