Ouch!

Here's what my fingers looked like as I headed to bed. There's not much to look at since I started holding them in iced water immediately after I burned them and kept them there until a few minutes before the photo was taken; maybe about 6 hours. Keep reading for details on how I managed to burn my fingers! (Just wanted to let people know it was not as horrible as they might have been imagining it. The main problem is they hurt when I try to write the blog.)

When I got the soy milk out to make my fennel proothie this morning I found that all the fine solids had settled out; there was about an inch on the bottom of the bottle. Going to be getting a lot more fiber with my homemade soy milk!

Mmmmm, fiber!

Today is Day 8 of the Unicorn Challenge; aka Week 2 Day 1. Today is a Low Carb, Yoga HIIT day. Here's the video for the Yoga HIIT; I am a little uncoordinated with the Running Squats. Lack of coordination is also why I never did aerobics! It was a good workout, it had me sweating by the end of the 30 minutes, though I wasn't breathing very hard.

For lunch I heated up some chicken drumettes that I got from Kokua Market yesterday. I also had some jicama & limu manauea salad also from Kokua.

 

After lunch I made another batch of soy milk, with some changes. I soaked the soybeans at room temperature rather than in the refrigerator; they soaked up more water but didn't ferment in our warmer ambient temperature. I also skimmed off the foam that was generated by the bean grinding portion of the process before I boiled the soy milk.  

The nasturtium at the drier end of the planting trough is blooming! The others are still there. The impatiens seems to like its growing conditions, though you can really see it growing towards the direction of the sunlight.

It is most easily seen from the side.

Straight on & the leaves hide the lone flower.

This one has a couple more leaves but no flowers.

I think this one is shrinking!

Impatiens.

For dinner I used the okara I collected earlier from the soy milk processing to make okara patties; the Messy Vegan Cook website calls them Fishless Fried Okara Patties. I think I needed to get more liquid out of the okara, the patties were really soft and hard to manage. That's how I burned my fingers; on the very last patty, I formed it as best as I could. It was so soft it was difficult to manage as I went to put it in the frying pan and the tips of my middle and ring finger on my left hand briefly touched the hot oil as I was trying to slide the patty in without it falling apart. In spite of their consistency going in, for the most part they maintained their patty shape after cooking, even after being flipped. 

From Messy Vegan Cook.

The food porn photo from Messy Vegan Cook.

What my patties actually looked like.

Pattie with jicama & limu manauea salad & the spicyish dip.

As soon as I burned my fingertips, I started soaking them in iced water. I did that as I finished frying the last of the patties. I did that as I ate my dinner. I did that as I watched the news. After a couple of hours they seemed okay, so I went to write up this piece for the blog and I discovered exactly which part of my fingers I had burned. It was the very tip, that fleshy part that sticks out just beyond your fingernail. The part you strike the keys with when you are blogging... It was quite painful and the whole distal phalange began throbbing with pain all over again. So I put my fingers back in the iced water for the rest of the evening and posted that very brief note on Monday, typed one-handed, very slowly. Auē! (This post was finished later but forced to publish with a Monday date.)

Right around 6:30 it started to rain tonight. These little rain squalls that we have been getting are due to the remnants of storms that start easterly of us. As they make their way to the west, they gather moisture from the warming ocean. When they have to rise above something, they need to lighten the load, we call it rain.

The reason why the FACW plant can survive in the cat run.

My friend Susie post a photo every week of the flowers that are in bloom in her yard. This is this week's bouquet.

Here's a tree in Susie's yard getting ready for autumn. It's not true that there are no seasons in Hawaiʻi; the plants know that there are seasons. They're just not as loud about it when they get ready to drop their leaves.

Our friends, Shabbir & Ruqqyi, have a new kitten, Rani. She is a sweetie; I'm sure Kai will now be spending as much time fixing their computers as he does playing with Rani!

Several of the Facebook groups I belong to allow you to post photos of things you would like help identifying. Someone posted this today, it is of a native plant called ʻieʻie.

I like how creative people are getting for Halloween in the ways they are devising contactless candy delivery.

I agree whole-heartedly with this advice.

 

There was a tsunami warning late this morning. There had been an earthquake in Alaska & concern that a tsunami would be generated. A several hours later the threat level was decreased to a watch after monitors found just small rises in sea level as the wave made its way here. We ended up getting perhaps a 1 foot oscillation but coupled with a higher than usual tide there was concern about shoreline damage. I don't think much happened because it didn't make the evening news. 

There were 39 new cases of COVID-19 reported today; I think this is the lowest since early May! Our total known cases is now 14,068. There were no new deaths so our total death toll remains 187. Oʻahu seems to be on track for moving to Tier 2; our 7-day average was 62 with a positivity rate of 2.9%. There are now 1228 active cases with an 80% recovery rate.

 

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Alison, Kiko, & Mary!