On the Eve of Fall
Weekend!
Backstory:
I did nothing productive Saturday. Slept past 9AM after accidentally spending most of Friday night on the couch with the cat. Yes of course I blame the cat. I finished watching the stupid Grimm show at last and embarked on a rewatch of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. (So I can finally start watching Season 3!) Breakfast was indulgent toasted Hawaiian bread with jam AND BACON. Dawdled around the house with my books and tablet games until past noon, then went on a Very Long Walk with Spouseman. We wandered along a route very much less-taken, and ended up at Cap’s Ice Cream.
Cap’s used to be Cappanari’s but they rebranded. I suspect someone convinced them Cappanari’s was too hard to spell for good web search/map search results, which is very much true but still sad.) ANYWAY. Their ice cream is super tasty, but I have made my peace with not really enjoying ice cream. I had a very tasty naked waffle cone instead because I LOVE waffle cone cookies. Spouseman had a double-kiddie scoop which is the same price as a regular small scoop but with two different flavors. Cosmic Cookie and something deadly chocolate. We then meandered past Straw & Bubbles on the way home and got boba teas for enjoying later.
I do love me a tasty boba tea.
Once home and hydrated I sat in the sunshine and did more reading until it was time for supper. Leftover pasta, cucumber salad, and a long walk aftrwards under bright quarter moon. Then I watched TV and played games all evening. The windows were open, crickets and tree frogs going strong, and the cat snoring away next to me. No regrets.
Prologue:
The morning more tasty toast and bacon was consumed. This exciting start to the morning was followed by a trip to the farmer’s market. We arrived too late to restock on smoked mozzerella, but got two other tasty cheeses, then grabbed the last blueberries of the season plus fresh veg for various meals to come.
Now:
Freezer chili is in the slow cooker, ingredients for blueberry scone baking have been collected for later, and while I’m writing this, Spouseman is mowing the lawn with our oh-so-quiet electric mower. I’m gonna write Real Blog, with a report on Bring Your Book Club test run and other writey-related things, and then there will be supper, another evening walk and moar TV.
What’s freezer chili? It’s black bean chili made with whatever leftover sausages, pork, turkey, or chicken has collected in the freezer meat drawer, plus tomato paste, chili powder, cumin n other spices, onion, garlic, some broth, some beer…you know, the chili basics. This batch is an experimental combo. Two different brands of brats and vegetarian breakfast sausage. Also jalapeños, frozen corn, carrots, and diced fresh tomatoes because the plants in the garden boxes just won’t stop producing.
Plans for tomorrow are vague beyond “water the plants, avoid the news, move around a bit, and enjoy the six-year anniversary of moving into this house. Convenient, moving right after a major holiday. Makes it much easier to keep track of the date.
And that’s that.