After you eat your taco or burrito w/ blackened bluegill, brown or wild rice w/ lime juice and cilantro, black beans, sauteed onions and peppers, avocado and salsa, sour cream, all rolled up in a corn or flour shell, you should sip your after supper brandy on the patio with ice and fresh mint leaves from your herb garden.
Then take a walk to the mail box with your young brown lab( mostly, tho' he howls instead of barks and he also jumps in a full rotation of joy - a mixed breed for sure w/ diverse responses to various stimuli). He chases, points, bays,catches, flushes.
On your way back from the mail box, peruse the field for the first of the early wild strawberries. Eat those tiny succulent berries and rejoice in the early harvest - 2 or 3 wks early this year. You do not get enough but that makes it even better. Sweetness, a burst of flavor, hope, the promise in blooms and nubbins, of more. I can't wait, but I will because I have no choice.
It is a pleasure to deal with food in this way because I spent so many years making it happen and serving "false foods" from the food purveyors - the national foodservice distribution companies - while I was in the high volume restaurant business.
The fish bite when they bite, the raspberries are ripe when they are ripe.
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