Day Ninety-Three: Zoom!

Taiya said she hopes she doesn't look like me when she grows up. She said it so bluntly that I busted out laughing and said, "Thanks a lot!" She explained she wanted her hair to be longer and her face less bumpy. And I said, "Fair enough," while wiping tears of laughter out of my eyes. Kids!

William wanted pizza for lunch, so I made pizza dough mid-morning. Taiya was wishing we could have

restaurant pizza, and I asked, "Didn't you like the pizza I made last time? You said it tasted like restaurant pizza." And she said, "I was just paying you a compliment." And again, I started laughing so, so hard. She lied about my pizza to make me feel better! But it came out by day ninety-three. The truth always comes out. 

I worked throughout the morning today, walking for over an hour during my weekly phone meeting. It was muggy and the sweat was pouring. I had a Zoom call in the afternoon, my first Zoom call ever. I went up to the farm and parked under a shade tree for the meeting. It was full of "sustainability coordinators" and other people of similar titles from different food companies, and the goal of the group that was meeting was to make sustainable agriculture practices the norm across all food systems in the US. This was a pre-meeting for a three-day meeting I'm joining next week. Should be interesting. 

We went to the pool in the afternoon. Kathy came out to chat for a bit. She gave the kids presents yesterday, a hammock for Taiya's doll, and a little quilt she had made for William. Today while we were talking, she got a call that someone was giving away boxes of fresh produce at the school, so she zipped over and got three boxes to share with us, herself, and her son's family. So we went home from the pool with wet, happy kids and a watermelon, some onions, oranges, carrots, and lettuce. I don't know who was giving these boxes away, but I am glad that some of the free food people are receiving is healthy. We gorged on watermelon when we got home, and I made salad, rice, tofu, and bell pepper with teriyaki sauce as the dressing for dinner. Oh, and bacon, because I knew my kids wouldn't eat tofu (we used to call it toad food when we were kids). And why not have bacon and tofu in the same dish? It's coronatime, all culinary rules are off the table. 

In the news, Trump is coming to Tulsa for a rally in a few days. Tulsa is about 2 hours away from here, and is the city of Jeremy's alma mater, Tulsa University. It's one of those times where the news meets your own backyard. I'm worried about what the rally will do to the rate of spread of coronavirus in the region. Things are already looking bad.