Did I mention?

Did I mention the smushed-pea sandwiches?

Happily, they'd laid on a spread of sorts at the noontime lecture re Cuba architecture last Thursday and Friday, plates of sandwich quarters, a half dozen different fillings. I'm still trying whatever is put in front of me, so I tried a crab sandwich, and one with chicken and tomatillos and roasted peppers, and a green-filled one I thought might be a sort of avodaco filling, as avocados grow here (tho the season is past). Nope. I don't think I would have come up with a smushed-pea sandwich, but it was a bit sweet, as fresh peas can be, with a bit of mint and a bit of something sort of tarragon-ish.

That, and a bottle of lemon Perrier water. Lovely.

I've been busy cleaning. The vertical blinds on both sliding doors and the bedroom windows, which are almost the same size, all needed a good cleaning, and I wanted to get the new acquisitions settled but into well-cleaned and freshened areas. So, in the way my family knows, I've been taking the hands=and-knees approach to getting things, from ceilings to floors and everything in between, wiped down, scrubbed, re-oiled and/or whatever is appropriate to the item. I've washed windows, tho that is a rather hopeless task on the ocean-facing ones, and worked on the slider frames, etc., to get them as clean as I can manage (the vinyl seals, still out of reach unless I take the doors out, are an ugly mess, and apparently the moisture and salt is combated by heavily greasing the runners etal of the doors).

Molds and mildews are a constant threat in a humid environment like this, so I am trying to pre-empt problems. Keeping things clean and keeping the air moving are the two requirements (and keeping any foodstuffs sealed up and preferably in the freezer, too). I think being on the upper floor will help keep the ant, cockroach and bug populations controllable, tho they are absolutely typical to find in the cleanest, best kept homes.

I've got the rug down (probably not a good idea, but with all the hard surfaces bouncing sound around, and being probably lots more aware than I need to be that I am living above someone else, I am interested in managing noise into and from my living quarters.) It is too brown to be considered 'pretty', in my opinion, but it is an attractive oriental pattern in brownish burgundy, cream and green.

Still with one pot, that handy skillet, but otherwise things seem pretty much in hand. I'll start a hunt for things to get the office and studio aspects of my little nest organized, and continue looking for something to function as a work island and probably a table in the kitchen.

If I haven't already provided it, the address is: Sheila Stains-Ramp, #1, 101 South Road, Smith's Parish FL08 Bermuda.

Gorgeous, sunny and 72 here, with a nice breeze.