Vegan cat and more

 

Lots of blooming tulips - in the grocery store!

A vegan cat!

My bento box scallops teriyaki with California rolls, brown rice, and the dipping sauce after I already ate the spring roll and several other sushi rolls! But this time I did remember to get a photo of some of the food! Sake Sushi is the restaurant, located in Cheshire Village in Black Mountain.

Monday I showed the top of the rosebush next door.

Here's the bottom. What happens when nobody prunes it in the fall.

Today's quote:

“I don’t see how you can be a feminist and not think about men. In order for women to live freely, men have to live freely, too. Being a feminist opens your eyes to the ways men, like women, are imprisoned in cultural stereotypes.”  Susan Faludi , author

A unique house and more

 

A good sale price urged me to purchase a new iPad. My mini iPad had stopped updating, and wasn't in the mood to charge anyway. Now just to figure out if I can blog on the little thing! So far it's an uphill task! Any tips from other bloggers using an iPad would be welcome in comments!

I did go to Asheville to buy my new iPad, so swung up into Kenilworth, and found the Lustron home that Tom the Backroads Traveler had mentioned. I'd checked and it was still there on Google World Maps in 2022. 70 Hampden Rd, Asheville. And it's there and nicely tended on April 14, 2024!

Here's the link to Tom's post about the ones in New York. And I commented that I'd seen them when I was a child (perhaps when they first came out in the 40s) in Houston TX. I remember walking on plastic runways over the carpet through the models. And my little sister was having fits cause she didn't have a nap. Funny the things that strike your memory! I adored the new shiny modern furnishings. Of course there wasn't much chance we'd get one of these houses, but a 7 year old can hope!

I finally had another lunch outing with some close friends...Sake Sushi, Japanese restaurant in Black Mountain. Here's Helen's vegetable teriaki with brown rice. Somehow my scallops teriaki bento box didn't get photographed. We all had the miso soup to start our meals.

Teresa's shrimp tempura bento box looked delicious. All of us split our meals and took half home for another meal.

Today's quote:

“Behind the screen of the ordinary can be found unique and wonderful things.”  

- American poet Ted Kooser

Just remembered these

 Our two Bento Box lunches...mine with scallop teriyaki...only had cooked onions in with them. but I found brown rice available for $1 more...they do it good!  Miso soup comes with it and was just right!

My friend had shrimp tempura..and liked her white rice.

You'll have to imagine the tofu and teriyaki entre' with brown rice, because that photo disappeared. Here's the last one I had, before learning about brown rice! My friend had 3 meals out of this wonderful mountain of veggies, and a bit of tofu.

I have enjoyed Sake Sushi...and will be going back. As soon as the tooth is repaired

On a hot hot Tues I spent a couple of hours in free air-conditioning at Ingles grocery, eating one of their banana muffins, and drinking a Starbucks decaf Americano. (no dealing with ac mold on that hot day!) I asked the kids at Starbucks how old they though I might be. One safely refused. The other guessed 73. I would like that, being 81 now.  He/she asked how my joints are (all of 17 maybe as much as 20 him/herself) and bemoaned arthritis in their family. I showed everything moves just fine (without divulging the joint on one little finger which is all swollen and askew). I'm pretty grateful for my mobility!

Today's quote:

Eyes have busied themselves exclusively with seeing although they can hear better than ears whenever they join forces with what’s outside the mind’s perimeter. 

Etel Adnan,  painter, poet, and philosopher  (February 24, 1925–November 14, 2021) 

Thanks to Inge Look, Norwegian post card artist...

Sake Sushi Restaurant

 On Wednesday around noon, the temperature was balmy 72...really cool feeling. Until I came home and my driveway and parking lot were about 79. But later the coolness crept into my woods too. Rain is coming. Big rain if I listen to the forecasts.

Since I didn't win the lottery, I was happy to meet my friend for lunch. She had just had some dental work done, at the usual exorbitant price, but felt really good. So we indulged in Japanese fare.

It was a nice cool cloudy day and we ate on the porch.

The interior must have more Japanese decor, but I couldn't see inside from here!!

My Teraki entree of Tofu and vegetables...lots to take home!

My friend had the Bento Box with Vegetable Tempura. She found the same thing I noticed on my second ordering of this dish...the Tempura batter was a bit thick and not totally cooked on some of the veggies.

Here's my super moon, the blur in the trees! Just to let you see I do sometimes stay up after sunset!

My lovely basil is just going crazy these days!

Today's quote:

Illness is in part what the world has done to a victim, but in a larger part it is what the victim has done with his world. -Karl A. Menninger, psychiatrist (1893-1990)