Today, I was busy as a bee and it felt good. Made a scrumptious dish. Braised lamb breast and no skin lentils with root vegetables. Braised the lamb in vinho do porto because I did not have any red wine. I did the lamb first thing in the late morning. It did not take more than 1 1/2 hours including prep time. I also made some more hummus. This time I put in less garlic, added a bunch of parsley and pepper flakes and used dried "grãu de bico" and still have some tahini left. I need to find a store that sells more. Maybe the healthfood store in the mall. Can you believe we have a mall here in Viana do Castelo. I rarely go, but tomorrow I will be close by and might take a peek at the health-food store. I also made apple turn-overs. They were really applesauce turn-overs. I had bought some frozen "pâte feuilletée" or "massa folhada" in Portuguese and had it in the freezer.

In the afternoon I walked up the hill behind the house to pick some flowers and some fresh eucalyptus leaves, it had rained earlier in the day and the smell of eucalypus was strong. Later on Miguel came by. He is an old friend of Josh, they are the same age. André is teaching him how to draw.

Just watched the news on TV and they were showing Chavez, the president of Venezuela,
in a photo with our prime minister of Portugal, José Socrates who a socialist. It's fun to watch on our TV news the comic acts Chavez's makes on "bushy w" especially the one when he called, "bush, the devil" and that "the air still smelled of surfur" from bushie's visist at the U.N. the previous day. He's falling and he's going to fall with many in his hard headed group, soon. Good-nite