Stranger and stranger

Good morning!


Here we are in suddenly cooler Concord.  Good sleeping weather.


Yesterday we dealt with the complexities of Kaiser Health System. North is North, it appears, and South is South, and never the twain shall meet.  We are waiting now for confirmation from the South that Theodore does indeed need certain lab procedures, so there we are in a holding pattern.


As we drove up day before yesterday, and confirmed yesterday driving around Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek and Concord, there is still something wrong with our car.  Something in the front gives out squeaks and groans and clunks as we steer along. So today we go to the Shell where Ben takes his car, to see what they can do to confabulate our trip.


In the meantime, I am dealing with a stranger's kitchen, and the stranger has RULES.  He has one skillet ( I have six or seven.) (Not counting the iron skillet, which I can scarcely lift any more...but that's another matter.) This costly skillet is non stick and cannot be scrubbed out with a handy stainless steel scrubber which I use on all my clean, lightweight Revere Wear.  And stuff sticks to it all the time.  


There is a new dishwasher which has more little electronic things on it than you can imagine. And a new refrigerator which is fairly normal. Seemingly.  I pointed high on an unused section of the cabinet to where Theo reached to unearth a couple of plastic plates. Good. They will do for the two of us.  Ben's two-ton very pretty Chinese made pottery can stay on the shelf except for dinner. And if we go to a Goodwill, and I see a large light-weight skillet, will I get it. You bet.


There are no saucepans that I can find. A couple of Danish enamel steel casseroles that I gave to Ben when he moved here will have to serve us as saucepans.  We do like his stainless steel cutlery which is huge and heavy to go with those two-ton dishes.  I am functioning as well as possible with these unfamiliar tools.  Last night we had turkey burgers on dilly bread, Moroccan salad of cukes and the usual accompaniments, string beans and artichokes from his garden on a plate with seasoned olive oil, more tomatoes and lettuce for the burgers, and corn on the cob which I cooked for seven min. in the microwave wrapped in wet paper towels (good)..and for dessert, diet raspberry jello with raspberries which do seem to add an alien touch of nature to such a chemical dessert.


I need to get dressed because we are going to the Shell to see what is wrong with the car. (Do we really want to know?) Hasta cuando, YAZZYBEL