5/27/10: Princesses, Peanut Butter, Strawberries and Rocks

I am a recent devotee of the health food blog Kath Eats Real Food (so much so that I’m giving her a free plug here, so go check out her Tribute to Oatmeal and be amazed). Homemade whipped banana oatmeal with walnuts and domashniy syr, plus any combo of dried or fresh fruit, honey and poppy seeds, fruit preserves, or peanut butter is the most satisfying breakfast I have ever had. Today I used up my last spoonful of peanut butter, and am looking forward to what she calls “Oatmeal In A Jar” to catch the dregs of peanut buttery goodness clinging to its sides. (Less exciting is the prospect of several months without peanut butter, before my brothers show up with a magical suitcase full of goodies). Next was a glorious meandering run through the pleasant grid of Ukrainian small town life. I resolved to go up and down every dirt road I had passed, as soon I had finished surveying the perimeter (i.e. running till there was nowhere left to run, where houses give way to endless fields, and babuysias stoop to pay homage to the earth). I have seen some interesting gardening outfits—an old lady in capris and a bra, an old man in a Speedo—it reminded me of how sometimes girls wear bikinis while they ride the lawnmower and work on their tan.