Before Leavening

What any leavening agent does is start fermentation, thereby entraining air. Presto, risen. Breakfast, then yard work, then breakfast again. Crab cakes and eggs. Must find some salt-cod, Kroger stopped carrying it. Bastards. Ethnic markets in Columbus. No leavening, the cakes got me thinking. Made an interesting crab corn-cake, not sure if they're any good or not. A friend sent a bag of pure fresh-milled plain cornmeal, white. Quarter cup corn meal, juice from a small can of premium crab meat with a little more clam juice to make a loose batter, stirred in the crab meat, made four nice patties. I thought they were pretty good, but I was quite hungry. Not a fair trial if you're really hungry. I liked them best with just a pat of butter, salt and pepper. Salsa might be good. These, and a nice small bitter salad, with balsamic, would be a great summer dinner, with a really flinty white wine or maybe a gewurztraminer. Sweaty and dirty, I put out a solar shower, the five gallon one, heat water for a complete clean-up, scrub my back with a sponge on a stick, wash my hair, come inside and shave, clip my nails. Good to go, but of course I'm not going anywhere, I just needed to get totally clean. Gotta zip in and do a load of laundry tomorrow, need to buy more socks, check at Big Lots, I only buy socks at Big Lots. I did order two books yesterday: I try and limit my buying to books, booze, tobacco and what food I require. I never really think that my lifestyle is any different than anyone else's. I do what I do to get along. If I make a point it's not because I'm trying to, I'm merely recounting events. Before leaving. That's probably a completely different post, something we might think about. You really can't catch me by surprise, even if you project ahead: I bet the farm, I'll be one move ahead. I operate in a vacuum, I don't really know, but I suspect. Good enough, for the jaded. Me too, I'd much rather be noticed, not in the cards. Still, I'd rather write to you, something I see as a thread, than not write at all.