I am sick again, or actually I have been for the past few days. It started as a mild sore throat, but now had morphed into fever and headache and bodyaches. I have not been so sick in one year ever, so I blame the Kai. Amanda says that I too quick to blame the innocuous Kai but he was slightly warm last week (corroborated by teacher Dao) and had a running nose on Friday and Saturday (which he does not have much anymore). He of course has shown no ill effects. Nor has Amanda, which is fortunate. I have been crying out for Z-Pak but she has ignored my entreaties. It would cost too much $$$ to try to convince someone else to get me some (hey, it could be bacterial).
Amanda picked more blackberries yesterday and went over to Heather’s to can… blackberry jam, cherry jam, blackberry and cherry jam, and onion relish. I don’t know if the onion relish was acidic enough to can safely, but I guess we will see. Later we went to the farmer’s market where we scored a free reusable bag because I had an ORCA card; I had just received it in the mail the other day.
I love how ORCA stands for “One Regional Card for All”. It’s the combined transit pass for all the public transit entities in the area.
We also got chilies, blueberries, apple granita at the Kai’s demand, corn, okra, and a baguette for dinner later. Mr. Kai filled himself up on blueberries and ended up not eating much for dinner.
He was very tired. His school recently moved up some kids from the infant room to his class so perhaps he did not get much sleep. I drugged myself up later and passed out on the couch. Amanda made zucchini bread. We have a lot of zucchini, but managed to dispose of one to a fellow gardening yesterday.