Meat!
my favorite thing of the day happend at the myers. for those of you who don't know, the myers are the family that lives up the road from me. they run a co-op so that people can get fresh organic vegitables, fruit, and various other healthy living foods. rachel is a good friend of mine. she grows her own wheat grass and bean sprouts. she makes good salad. it is usually full of vegitables i can't identify. today i had sprouted flax crackers and seed yogurt at their house. you get the picture. so this morning i brought her home from droping off her car to get inspected. she offered me breakfast. her brother mikey was home and she had promised to make him some anyway. "why not" i thought, "i usually enjoy the myers not quite traditional food style." so i accepted. we went in the house and mikey came downstairs wearing only a towel (this did not strike me as out of the ordinary i only mention it because it struck me as uncanny how much he looked like he belonged on an egyptian hieroglyph). rachel asked him what he wanted for breakfast. he protested that he wasn't hungry yet and besides he was going to lunch with a friend in an hour. he proceeded to immediately walk into the kitchen and make himself a bowl of weetabix with pomegranet juice and maple syrup. (mikey is also of the same mould as rachel with food and was still in his towel) halfway through the bowl he reaized that he must be hungry after all and decided that if rachel wanted to make food he would eat some. the question was repeated, "well... what do you want to eat?" the response shocked me as his eyebrows raised in excitement "meat!" was the reply. rachel got a sly smile that showed she kind of agreed and was kind of nervous about the prospect. "what kind of meat?... liiike bacon?" "aw! bacon would be awesome!" "because we do have this organic smoked bacon.", "fry it up!" half of a package of frozen bacon made its way into the pan on the myers stove and sat their in one lump sizzling for quite a while until i went over to separate the slices. "oh, that's how you cook it! i don't make bacon very much!" the entire package was gone before the hour was up. i couldn't help but smile.