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โšก October 29, 2017

Concoctions ๐Ÿ’

Life is but a bowl of cherries.

Life is but a bowl of cherries.

One of lifeโ€™s greatest clichรฉs just happens to be 100 percent true, even if itโ€™s never been worded very well. But you know the drill โ€“ if you have your health, you are a wealthy man. If you donโ€™t, you are totally screwed. Yesterday, I was in the latter category, having contracted some kind of stomach bug that made me ridiculously and decidedly non-healthy. As is the habit of worried people, I googled the spectrum from bad food to death.

Turn the page, and here we are, feeling great. Iโ€™m looking at all the food in the fridge askance, including the chicken soup. The last time I left a chicken in the fridge too long โ€“ really really too long โ€“ Bill had to take it out to the meadow beyond the woods and dump it and then I had to leave the expensive Le Creuset roasting pan outside for a long time until weather and wind dissipated the smell. The fictional version of chicken-in-the-fridge has been described in my novel Cleaning House, but those were raw chickens โ€ฆ something very different. ๐Ÿ”