It has been very warm and summery with temperatures well up in the 70s.
My toes aren't completely healed, if I walk about too much they start to hurt, and I think that having broken them there is a strong possibility now of getting arthritis in them. So I haven't been doing much. A lot of reading.
And have been doing some baking. I made a light fruit cake this morning for the raffle I have initiated at the Senior Centre. Kate said she thinks they will have the raffle on the Thursday before Good Friday when there are usually a lot of people there. She has a lovely personality, and so does her mother, they turn every little gathering into a party, which is what they will do.
This evening I made a fruit jelly for Wednesday evening's dessert. And I knocked up some cookies/biscuits as well. Chocolate chip with crushed potato crisps and peanuts, so they have a salty, chocolatey flavour. It will probably be thought to be an English specialty. The fruit jelly will be, they tend not to put fruit in their jellies here, which seems a bit boring to me.
I was manning the desk at the Senior Centre this afternoon, as I do on Tuesdays. The Chief of the Seminole nation was hanging out with me for a while and reading the paper. He said - in a tone of voice which suggested disapproval - that Indians had always been men, but now there are women, and they become chiefs and all sorts. Thinks "good for them, emancipation/women's liberation, has come to the reservations, set them free from their tepees."
They - the Seminole nation, are having a fund raising event on the 14th April, a Wild Onion Dinner, I think I might go. I'm intrigued to know what that is. I was just told it was something Indian when I asked.
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