Does anyone have CDs anymore? I was just wondering because I feel like I have been transported back in time on these days of isolation. I am doing things I have never done, like growing food from table scraps. It's amazing how fast a baby bok choy can pop up out of the leftover cuttings when placed in water. I have bok choy and brussel sprout cores in water in a dish on the window sill. I transplanted the 1st baby sprout today to my garden on my balcony with the living lettuce I bought two weeks ago. Hopefully with al the sunshine, we have been getting, these little ones will flourish. On that note I digress like my mind has been without the motivation of work to kick start it. While I am trying to keep busy I have managed to revive my extensive CD collection. I am using music therapy to stay away from the TV as much as possible.
I have noticed everyone is posting pictures of their cooking. It's funny because I used to do it a lot and then just stopped. I guess everyone is missing all of the restaurants they have been enjoying. Watching Netflix cooking shows can make you wanna cook, I agree. It's starting to make me wonder what will happen when all of this is over, and people emerge from their caves with brand new skills they acquired over the "Covid-19 Times". Will they keep cooking, making the industry struggle? I mean humans are generally lazy so, chances are they will return. I wonder if it will be like a diet, where you go on a meal regimen and once it's all over you eat even more and gain double the weight back? Will people shut their home kitchens down again, and only cook for parties and holidays? Will the industry I am in, completely change to a fully different concept, where pick up and delivery rule, and food menu programs dropped at your doorstep, steals the magic of a chefs world? The curtain is up and all the magic has been revealed, the wizard is just a cook, with some skills easily learned on YouTube. I guess after the smoke has cleared and the 20% of restaurants (my estimate) that survived the virus closures open, there will be room for new chefs to create. Like a burnt forest sprouting new flora through the ashes.
I have been out on my bike ONCE and then managed to hurt that damn thumb of mine trying to change gears. Anyways while I was out I got to see the city in the old way I used to, via mountain bike. I road around the seawall fully to Cambie Street in False Creek. It was a beautiful crisp day, perfect for riding and while I was out it made me remember how I used to ride all over the city-UBC, Granville Island, Stanley Park, East Vancouver. Somehow I slowly stopped in my 30s and now I go out rarely, living right next to or working at the places I would visit. I also didn't have osteoarthritis in my knee at the time, although that is quite the excuse considering my knee was fine on the excursion, the rest of my body was the problem.
The sites were beautiful of course, spring in Vancouver is like a dream when the weather is perfect. Cherry blossoms, magnolias, tulips, daffodils, snowdrops, crocuses, all-out filling gardens and little and big patches of open fields. I haven't seen any bleeding hearts but I'm sure my favourite spring flower will be out soon with my other favourite, columbine. It seems the cherry blossoms which had a horrendous season last year are making up for it this year. The trees are so full of blossoms, it looks like a scene from Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory and trees full of cotton candy. There are bizarre photo opportunities all over the city with people posing in face masks under the blossoms. I wonder if you can fully enjoy these flowers without being able to smell them.
So, Vancouver is still as beautiful as it always has been, with or without the pandemic threatening the world's population. The beaches may be emptier, the bike paths may be closed, the roads may be closed to the natural beauties of our city. It doesn't mean we all can't get out and enjoy them, at a safe distance. Take pictures to remember this bizarre and special time. Pictures of it all-cooking, cleaning, Zoom parties, gardening, anything you are doing to motivate yourself to get out of bed every day. Remember to enjoy this taste of retirement; our parents, if they are still around, and retired friends, live like this daily, and they haven't ever complained about it. They just wanna go for a walk, or a bike ride, or shopping, like we can, without getting sick.
Does anyone have CDs anymore? I was just wondering because I feel like I have been transported back in time on these days of isolation. I am doing things I have never done, like growing food from table scraps. It's amazing how fast a baby bok choy can pop up out of the leftover cuttings when placed in water. I have bok choy and brussel sprout cores in water in a dish on the window sill. I transplanted the 1st baby sprout today to my garden on my balcony with the living lettuce I bought two weeks ago. Hopefully with al the sunshine, we have been getting, these little ones will flourish. On that note I digress like my mind has been without the motivation of work to kick start it. While I am trying to keep busy I have managed to revive my extensive CD collection. I am using music therapy to stay away from the TV as much as possible.
I have noticed everyone is posting pictures of their cooking. It's funny because I used to do it a lot and then just stopped. I guess everyone is missing all of the restaurants they have been enjoying. Watching Netflix cooking shows can make you wanna cook, I agree. It's starting to make me wonder what will happen when all of this is over, and people emerge from their caves with brand new skills they acquired over the "Covid-19 Times". Will they keep cooking, making the industry struggle? I mean humans are generally lazy so, chances are they will return. I wonder if it will be like a diet, where you go on a meal regimen and once it's all over you eat even more and gain double the weight back? Will people shut their home kitchens down again, and only cook for parties and holidays? Will the industry I am in, completely change to a fully different concept, where pick up and delivery rule, and food menu programs dropped at your doorstep, steals the magic of a chefs world? The curtain is up and all the magic has been revealed, the wizard is just a cook, with some skills easily learned on YouTube. I guess after the smoke has cleared and the 20% of restaurants (my estimate) that survived the virus closures open, there will be room for new chefs to create. Like a burnt forest sprouting new flora through the ashes.
I have been out on my bike ONCE and then managed to hurt that damn thumb of mine trying to change gears. Anyways while I was out I got to see the city in the old way I used to, via mountain bike. I road around the seawall fully to Cambie Street in False Creek. It was a beautiful crisp day, perfect for riding and while I was out it made me remember how I used to ride all over the city-UBC, Granville Island, Stanley Park, East Vancouver. Somehow I slowly stopped in my 30s and now I go out rarely, living right next to or working at the places I would visit. I also didn't have osteoarthritis in my knee at the time, although that is quite the excuse considering my knee was fine on the excursion, the rest of my body was the problem.
The sites were beautiful of course, spring in Vancouver is like a dream when the weather is perfect. Cherry blossoms, magnolias, tulips, daffodils, snowdrops, crocuses, all-out filling gardens and little and big patches of open fields. I haven't seen any bleeding hearts but I'm sure my favourite spring flower will be out soon with my other favourite, columbine. It seems the cherry blossoms which had a horrendous season last year are making up for it this year. The trees are so full of blossoms, it looks like a scene from Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory and trees full of cotton candy. There are bizarre photo opportunities all over the city with people posing in face masks under the blossoms. I wonder if you can fully enjoy these flowers without being able to smell them.
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