Turquoise Sailing
To be honest, I can't remember why I painted what I painted. I dont even remember what I titled this very painting.
I know tho... I love the catamaran, even though I know nothing about sailing, boats, ships, nor yachts. But.. I suppose I can sail floating along the river. Probably a simple Huckleberry's raft will suffice, but then... if one has to sail floating in a basin, might as well sail floating with style 😂. A catamaran it is.
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I think... after a day of nonstop doing house chores, assembling my new meat grinder of cast iron and a manual one (for now), studying dynamo motor ( for possible future use with manual grinder), laundry, cleaning up garden, checking list of ingredients to make mild Italian sausage, then also to think and prepare ahead for my bro's request to cook him our East Java specialty black soup called rawon. Sausages and rawon, thats a lot of meat! Then wash dishes, feed the 3 indoor cats, 2 outdoor cats ( Tango and his female), and... check on mom, apply cream on her ailing knees, just all the regular routines so that she can rest comfortably for the night.
Other than future dynamo motor that I would have to figure out how to attach and operate them on grinder on my own, the rest is manageable step by step... hmmm. ....on my own as well😖
All in all...it is never the labor that drags me down, but the heat. Thus, my long wish to have a simple raft to sail floating on a very clear water river, doing nothing, just sail floating.
I know how to cook rawon, have long been cooking it for family, but... in my childhood, there was a native Javanese woman married to a Chinese man. She had asked permission from grandma to set up her stall at the side of grandma's wall. Her name was Bek Ho. Bek is a Javanized bibi for auntie. Ho, I think was the other half of her Chinese husband's name. Bek Ho had been selling her rawon soup there for decades, presumably long before I was born. Bek Ho's rawon soup with rice had been my regular breakfast or lunch meal during those years. The best rawon soup of all times. Everytime I cook rawon, Bek Ho's rawon had always been my aim to achieve such delicacy.
Bek Ho had passed away now, a few years after my family moved out here. I was searching utube for many variations of rawon recipe that 'looks and tastes' closely resembles Bek Ho's rawon. Then mom's message came thru, asking me to shorten 2 of her housecoats. I ended up watching this video 👇..... an Australian guy who married a Chinese East Java Surabayan woman. I was laughing my ass off, because this Westerner actually speaks fluent, not just our national langguage, but Javanese dialect too!... almost with perfect accent 😂