Gardening this morning, and had a bowl of strawberries from my garden mixed with vanilla yogurt. I get about this many every day, and usually put them in yogurt. They don't keep more than a day, which makes me wonder what they must do to commercial strawberries to make them last as long as they do?

I think dinner tonight will be a pizza (I have some extra crusts in the freezer I made a couple of weeks ago) topped with a bunch of sliced peppers and chicken and cheese, with a layer of shredded basil underneath. I don't put tomato sauce on pizzas much these days. And I need to make a batch of beans, I've used up all of the pint jars in my freezer. This morning I mixed up batter for a loaf of banana bread and set the convection oven out on the table on the patio and baked it there. Why heat the house any more than I need to? I don't leave the oven out there, I don't want the sun to break down the plastic, but I'd love to have a regular cooking zone on the patio. While I'm at it, I'd love to have the indoors and outdoors so well done that I get the same feel as someplace like the Hemingway house or at least some of the rooms. Or porch. (Disney tried to reproduce some of the rooms at a resort nearby, but the effect doesn't look the same. I should say that while I've been to Key Largo, I've never been further south. This is all purely imagination and romance of a few photos and old Humphrey Bogart movies at work.)

I'm pacing myself, indoors and out. I have some sewing to do, but I'm thinking about making space in the living room so I can roll my sewing cabinet in there and watch a movie and sew at the same time. But I won't be able to do that until I find new homes for a couple of pieces.

Some eBay sales are about to end, a couple don't look like they're going to sell, but one has bids. I need to see about adding more today, and listing a big thing on Craig's List and the eBay classifieds to see what happens. I could stand to move some big things out and get some cash for them at the same time. I'd love to clutter my wallet. :)

SRS