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We all know that time spent here in Steemit is unpredictable. There are days when we have enough to post and interact. There are times that we post and then sign off right away. There are times that we can barely check our comments. There are times when we don't have time at all.

So, here goes some compilation of @ulogs.

First, let me present what was my lunch for today. I just had my very late lunch but that's fine because I had a late breakfast.

Late Lunch

We have marinated beef that we cook sometimes for the kids lunch that they bring to school with. I took some of that. I was planning on just frying it since it had been marinated for a long time now. I heat the pan and added oil and cooked the meat.

I was planning to add onions but when I checked our vegetable rack, the potatoes and carrots are begging me to cook them. I took one carrot and two potatoes, peeled those and sliced them and put them in the pan. I then added a bit of vinegar and soy sauce.

I then checked what spices we have. There are chili powder and five spices still available to I took those and add them in.

I mixed those and covered the pan. I just let it cook under low fire and waited for the fire to do its magic.

That is the way I cook sometimes. I started with one plan and then just keeps adding what I feel like. It's kind of an experiment and see what happens.

The dish turned out to taste with just enough spice and chili. There were some left over cardis (pigeon pea/Congo pea) mixed with onions and tomatoes and I added that to my meal plus rice of course. Rice is life.

The banana you see is from my uncle's garden. It is a perfect dessert for this meal because of its sweetness.

Hair and Art Attack

There were days when we have continuous rainfall that we cannot go out. It rains every day the whole day and we would be cooped in the house.

One of those days, while we were watching, my niece decided to play with my hair and practiced braiding. She still has a lot to learn. She practiced doing it to my hair on different days that they have nothing else to do.

We have a coloring book that was given to them by one of our churchmates. My niblings have only started coloring one page. I then took that book and asked that we color it together which they readily agreed.

We only have limited color selection but we worked with that we have. By the time we finished one page, they wanted to do another so I let them be.

It's a bit tricky coloring the book because the color pens do not dry easily. We have to wait to let the ink dry or move on to another part of the drawing to color.

Errand Boy

What's with the butterfly? I will come to that shortly.

In my previous post, I talked about a dear friend. He works abroad. Unfortunately, his uncle died of a stroke last week. Good thing he has emergency leave available which he used for him to come home and pay his respect for his uncle one final time. Today is his uncle's burial. Sad to say that he will not be able to attend. As of this writing, he is back to the land where he has to earn a living.

They held the wake in his uncle's house at least two hours away from our city. That is where he spent his entire vacation. Last night, he had to travel from his uncle's place to our city and then from our city to the airport.

When we visited them and paid our respects, we talked about his plan of coming here to see us even for just a few moments but at the same time take a bus here going to the airport. He then asked me to buy a ticket for him.

Once we arrived from his uncle's place, I headed to the terminal and checked the schedules of buses for him. He prefers to be at the airport earlier than his scheduled flight. I then suggested one bus company that has a route to the airport terminal where he will be boarding.

The travel time from Baguio to Manila has been shortened because of the construction of an expressway. This one particular bus will be traveling through that so no worries for him not to make it in time for his flight.

When I left the house earlier to go buy a ticket, I saw the that butterfly in our yard and I took a photo of it. I know a friend who adores butterflies. She even has a butterfly tattoo! Let's just hide her identity under the name of @bloghound lol!

Here's one more photo of that butterfly.

Later that night, together with a friend we had a dinner. He requested a particular fastfood that he misses. He said they have this food chain where he works but he does not like the taste of food there. Nothing beats home.

We also touched upon the matter of traveling local or abroad. I hope we can come up with a plan and hopefully our schedules will jive to make this a reality.

After dinner, we then accompanied him to the bus terminal and see him off. He texted me later that night that he loves the bus. It was his first time to ride this bus company and he was pleased by it. He said that at least he can catch up on the sleep that he desperately needed since being home here in the Philippines one week ago.

There is one more errand that I had to do and that is meet with our other friends to give them their chocolates.

So there goes some of my days.

Here are also random photos that I took in our yard. These are the times when the rain let up and gave me the chance to go outside and take photos.

This ends my @ulog.

I am using this divider provided by @surpassinggoogle here in this post about @ulog.

What is @ulog? Read it HERE.

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