You live in the Southwest long enough and you become expert at fixing peppers! I've been grilling Hatch chiles for years, though you can buy them grilled in smaller containers than full cases. This way I know they were all fresh when they were grilled, and they were frozen right away. The peppers I bought were medium hot, plenty of heat for me!

I was looking at the weather radar to the east of me, to see where Debbie is wandering, and noticed the New Orleans area got some thunderstorms yesterday. I hope Patty stayed dry!

Charmion, there are some things that brick and mortar stores are the best for, and I've bought from Replacements.com several times with good luck. I also have a few things I should offer them. (They would probably give you a wholesale price on the china you talked about selling.)

I worked on that Defensive Driving course yesterday morning and in the evening finally finished it. What a slog, but the certificate has been uploaded to the insurance company and I await an updated bill that should be about $100 less than if I hadn't taken the course. It applies for three years.

Joann's (fabric and craft store) had the right size of leather lace I wanted for making a necklace for the lapis "donut" I bought for my "spot of blue in a red state" necklace. At lunch yesterday my daughter was examining it and I explained about the mineral in general. Last night I started researching the grading of lapis and went down the rabbit hole of color and mineral content (Lapis lazuli is actually often three things - the blue lazurite, iron pyrite, and calcite). The darkest richest blue is most valuable, but with specks of pyrite it is really lovely and that's what my piece has. Streaks of calcite tend to mute the color; a little is okay but it diminishes the value if there is too much inclusion of either of them. The reason why I point this out is that I was thinking about buying 12 to 15mm beads to make a few necklaces, but to be sure to get the beautiful blue it comes in strings that cost upwards of $800. Change of plans!

I've always loved this stone, since my aunt explained to us the history of a gorgeous rather long narrow scarab ring she wore. It was silver set with three lapis Egyptian real antique scarabs, a gift from an archeologist friend in the 1940s. When she had it cleaned and reset the jeweler showed her the hieroglyphs underneath and the string holes running through them. A series of three scarabs would be pressed into soft clay as someone's official "seal" back in the day. There is simply nothing like it out there now; they were small scarabs in a row and she had long hands with thin fingers and it was the most elegant thing that she wore all of the time.

Haircut and shopping today, with a main stop is the Halal market. They had bulk psyllium fiber last time I was there, an ingredient used in some gluten-free recipes to bind the dough or batter together. It features in a non-wheat tortilla recipe I want to try because you want a flexible flat bread.