LINCOLN'S TABLE

A VERY PLEASANT AND PEACEFUL DAY AT HOME!  A delight to stay HOME and rest.  Paperwork worked on.  More to do.  This week I hope to thin out so much paper my head will spin.  Laundry worked on.  Priming the Dining room walls.  AND drum roll please...I will go shopping so I can eat the color wheel again.  This diet helps me to simplify what to eat for the day.

It's low cal, low carb and I need that as I reduce my body size.  Each day is a different color of foods.  This go round I will start with a RED DAY on Wednesday, go YELLOW on Thursday, next ORANGE, relax with GREEN, praise the BLUE foods, then end with a purpose eating PURPLE foods.  Relax and have a left overs day and reflect how the week went.  Eat some real meat, dairy and nuts in combination with fruits and vegetables.

So a shopping I will go.  

ON THE HOME FRONT:  I took a load of goodies to the Goodwill store.  I'd like to do this weekly for awhile as I thin out items throughout the house.  This is slow paced and this is what I can handle right now as I make plans to continue downsizing.  

Hubby has been cutting strips of wood that need to be applied to the screened in porch windows. He has primed and painted the first coat of paint.  He is taking this slow as he can only get what he can get done.  Soon this will be wrapped up and called finished.  

Excited that the book I ordered arrived in the mail.  'LINCOLN's TABLE' by Donna D. McCreary.  Victorian Recipes from Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois.  Gently used.  In very good condition.  I ordered this cook book as it has many recipes from the Civil War era.  Mary Todd Lincoln's White Almond Cake recipe is published in it.  I have to try this, truly I do. 

As I thumbed through the book, I thought of Springfield, Illinois where we were two weeks ago.  I had such an awesome time getting away for a few days.  

I had wondered what Abraham Lincoln ate?  Some said he'd only ate an apple for the day.  Tall and lanky.  Light eater.  President Lincoln was 6'4" tall weighing 180 pounds and as the Civil War went on, he dwindled down to 160. Incredibly skinny for his height.  

Will share recipes later. 

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