Feliz cumpleaños, Pradera! Today was Prairie's 26th birthday.
We did some gardening around the house this morning--I transplanted some lemongrass. But, for most of the morning, and most of the rest of the day, I was sorting corn. The corn we bought in Tocoa the other week was pretty bad--I spent the day crushing weevils and picking out kernels that had holes in them (where the weevils like to hang out). Hopefully now though the corn won't get much worse, since the majority of the bugs are out.
After lunch I brought out the gifts for Prairie--dried apricots, a chocolate-espresso bar, and a deck of cards. Yay. At dinner time, I got to make molasses crinkles! This being rural Honduras, they were a little different than what you might be used to. We had no shortening, just oil. And no brown sugar, just a form of solidified molasses called rapadura. But they came out just fine! Mmm, mmm!
In the evening, we played cards in the lamplight. It rained for a while, so hard that we could barely hear each other talk! The only interesting game we could remember was Rummy 500. I won by 300 points...
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