Today is supposed to be another hot, sunny day, and I have the "day off". I'm thrilled, because I might actually be able to enjoy one of the last warm days this year. The Jalapenos are ripening beautifully, and I'll be harvesting those and the majority of the Tabasco peppers today (ideally) or Sunday (not ideally, since we're supposed to have rain for most of Sunday). I'd like to get them harvested and dried so that I can start making some chili mixes and set up some jars to be used in cooking. But today will be busy, in any case.
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I'm looking forward to making some Tabasco powder from my peppers. I'd offer the recipe to you, but really, it just consists of "dry the peppers and grind them into powder", which I think anyone can do without a formal recipe. I'll be using my little dehydrator for these. I learned from the first experiments that it will take almost 24 hours to truly get dry. Any moisture will ruin the batch, so I have to be careful with this. I will need to get a good grinder too. My old coffee grinder is used for my metal clay work, so not safe for food any more. |
On today's agenda is making a batch of chicken fajitas to take me through a few days of meals, as well as my weekly batch of Ogre Juice. I'll certainly have my time in the kitchen, but hopefully will also get some computer time since I'm a bit backlogged on things there. Still, since it's going to be one of the last nice days this year, I'm also going to make sure I spend some of it outdoors. I'll feed the hummingbirds (although most of them have already left the area), I'll harvest whatever I can, and I'll try to enjoy the nice weather. All too soon it will be rain, and then snow, and I'll look back on today as a magical day of late summer.
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I make my chicken fajitas in the oven on a sheet pan, so they're super easy to cook and very tasty. I know I passed the recipe on to you within the past six weeks. I have all the ingredients, just need to slice everything up and slap it into the oven to cook. |
Still, time marches onward, ever forward, never back. Can you even imagine a world in which there is no time - no progression or recession, no movement forward or backward? Could there be function in a world like that? Or how about living backwards, like Merlin. According to legend, he lived his life backwards, becoming ever younger. His death was his birth. Warp your head around that for a moment. His life was one long regression into youth and finally, the womb once more. But would he have been born and relived his life as a common man? That might make an interesting premise for a novel, but my head gets stuck in the channels of how time progresses and can't quite wrap around all of the permutations that premise opens up.
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I prefer to think of Merlin as a magician instead of as a warrior, but in the King Arthur universe, he was most certainly both. Although he might have wanted to spend his life understanding the universe, he far too often had to pull a sword out and use it. A warrior magician is what he became in the legends. |
Carrying the time premise one more step, since the Universe is expanding ... will it eventually coalesce once more, only to rinse and repeat once again? If so, how many times, and in what infinite time period has that happened, and what, if anything, happens to the many inhabited planets scattered throughout the cosmos? How can anyone escape what is a world-wide, universe-wide reality and catastrophe? Would it be possible to be in a spacecraft and survive the total destruction and remaking of the universe? I suspect that even the Gods would find that difficult - or impossible - without porting into a different dimension.
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It's almost impossible for the human mind to wrap itself around the destruction of the Universe - how it could/will happen and what would exist afterward, if indeed anything would exist at all. The space/time continuum would be so messed up, my head can't wrap around the full ramifications of the end of the Universe. |
So those are my odd thoughts for this morning. Far, far away from cooking and cleaning, my mind focuses on the Universe and it's promises - good and bad. It could be a fun series to write, but I'd have to do a lot more world-building and wrap my mind around something that physics doesn't seem to support. Argh! LOL So ... have I messed with your minds also? Let me know in your comments. I'll be back on Saturday. Have an excellent day. Slava Ukraini.
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