Fe has dropped off a bag of vegetables while Maw was ironing yesterday. The old lady didn’t knock or ring the bell and Maw assumed that she was in a hurry to leave. Fe had called and talked to Maw twice in the day. I wonder what makes the difference between the “bastos’ and this one for dumping and leaving.
Anyway in the mid-afternoon, Maw and I peeled the lemon skins off the OLD and almost dried pulp with our bare hand and proceeded to remove the seeds and white, furry pulp from the juicy parts that we had liquefied with an Oster blender — the first of its kind almost 40 years ago. We never did us this blender frequently and that is why it lasted that long!
There were dark green peppers included in this surprise. The other surprise was how Fe wanted Maw to speak with Nati, her long-time friend. It seems the smart one would not speak with a sibling. I guess that is a familiar story with regards to the boy and moi. He chose to be stubborn, just like his wifey and moi.
So it seems that everyone is playing hard ball because everyone has an agenda to live a life in the pursuit of happiness and liberty without being told what do to and what not to do “correctly”. Get it? People would rather life in denial, smile as if nothing is wrong and let the family unity fall into disarray.
So it is with some to be lousy friends of the family, except a few who are nice enough to buy two nice sandal slippers from the Philippines — one of gold and one of shiny black. We wore our pair today. It is these rare gifts from people who are considerate enough to think of us, even though we are not in contact frequently.
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