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This is the lamp and the sideboard I mentioned in an earlier post.  I think we are getting very close to crossing the line into too chinese-y.

 

It was two weeks ago monday that I took Tony to the emergency room at 12:30am (below, isn't he cute?) because he was so sick with what he thought was the Hiney (or H1N1 or Swine Flu).  Two days later I came down with the same thing he had.  Now two weeks later Tony gets a call from the hospital that the results are back and YES INDEED Tony tested positive for the Hiney!  Of course there is nothing to worry about now, since we have both been better for more than 10 days and we aren't contagious, but of course old mother hubbard thinks he has a temparature again.

Three cats, one husband

 

Powell Street station smells shit this evening.

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So we had just assembled our new "lobster red" coffee table from CB2 in the TV room, and within half an hour, Chonita and Pepi had staked out their spots under this new roof.  Notice that Pepi, as usual, is keeping a safe distance, but by no means ceding her rights to make herself just as comfortable under their newly discovered spot.

 

 

Tony started getting a cold Saturday night.  He was in his "sick mode" all day Sunday, which consists of constantly asking me if he has a fever and moaning that he "doesn't want to die."  Of course this time he could throw in the H1N1 (or Hiney, as he calls it).  So I also got the constant "do you think I have the hiney?"  And we run through the symptoms and decide he doesn't.  I'm not saying he's not sick.  He does have a fever and is obviously not feeling well.  I just think he overreacts a bit.  I made him red chile mexican chicken soup for dinner last night and he was asleep by 9:30.  I went to bed about 10:30 and was deep asleep at 12:30am when he woke me up saying he had unberable body aches and felt really hot and needed to go to the emergency room. 

I have to say, now that Tony is on my insurance and the emergency room is at Summit instead of Oakland Kaiser, this trip to the emergency room was a world of difference.  He was in with a doctor within 15 minutes and we were done and out of there by 2am.  Bottom line, he did have a temperature of 101.6 (not 106.1 as the first screening nurse told us), but the doctor is extremely doubtful that he has the hiney.  However, given the fact that Tony teaches at a school in the mission, where lots of kids have been out sick, and given some of his symptoms, the doctor did swab for the hiney and sent the swabs off to the CDC.  We'll  know the results in 2 days.  The consensus is that he has the regular flu or a very bad cold. 

Tony is sick, which is always a joy.  Every ten minutes he wants me to verify that he is running a temperature.  I didn't get much done this weekend, too much time spent watching the French Open.  I'm still stunned at Rafa's loss.  Just goes to show, we all have our off days!  I've been meaning to start a whole bunch of seed blocks for the last several weekends and did not get around to it AGAIN!  My goal of best vegetable year ever is slipping away.  The tomatoes, beans and peas are doing great, but I've used up all my radishes and have not replanted those.  My carrots and beets did not take at all.  The komatsuna mom gave me grew like gangbusters - I've used a lot of it in salads and stir fries and even made a pesto sauce for Saturday night's halibut, but it just grew faster than I could use it and I had to pull it all out yesterday because it was bolting.  The green chard is doing well.  I must seed block this weekend!!!!!

I made Tyler Florence's Ultimate Teriyaki Chicken last night and it was delicious.  Also made a vegan Southern Style Smothered Cabbage recipe that I pulled out of the chronicle a few weeks ago and it was fabulous.  I've really been into sauteed cabbage lately.  Cheap, plentiful, easy and tasty!

I always love the way the house looks from the back.  You'd never guess from back here that this was in the Oakland neighborhood that it's in.  So peaceful back there, especially in the early evening.

 

The tomatoes are over three feet in three weeks. I think mom's new method is really working!

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A chicken tinga burrito with guacamole from Maya is the best burrito ever.