I woke up this morning at 4:30 and gave up on trying to get back to sleep. Read instead until I grabbed a pile of 5x7 photographs that a friend had taken at the 2005 PMFF and sorted (found duplicates to give to the appropriate people), trimmed, and started paging them for The Archives.

I figured I'd fade sometime today but it never happened (unless it's happening right now at 7:20pm...).

After I washed and dried my hair (and worked some more on the photographs and consolidating piles of paper and trying to make some sense out of the yet unfiled stuff) I headed off to the credit union to pay the mortgage and then do some grocery shopping. Brought everything into the house including the wine I bought on Saturday.

Spent a little time at the computer then started cooking. I'd bought what I needed to do a boiled dinner and a meatloaf. Wasn't sure which I'd have tonight, but figured if nothing else, boiled dinner always improves each time it's heated up. So we had the meatloaf tonight. I made mushroom gravy but then decided, instead of making the little new potatoes (boil them, then squash each one and sauté in butter), that I'd mash up some of the boiled dinner veggies and have that with gravy over everything. Tom loved it. And it's enough different (and no cabbage in it yet) that the same vegetables in the boiled dinner tomorrow will be "new".

The other consideration is that it's impossible to make a small boiled dinner for two unless you eat it forever -- which Tom won't go for. When it cools off a bit, I'll freeze 2 cups of the veggie stock tonight. And the next time I make the boiled dinner for supper (Friday, maybe, after the session, or Saturday) I'll turn it into hash and fry it. Tom taught me that years ago. And anything left I'll freeze; it should freeze okay, shouldn't it? Or I'll freeze it as hash.

I need a bigger fridge. I definitely need a bigger freezer!

I didn't buy a rutabega for the boiled dinner -- I had several types of turnips from my CSA share. The little white ones are sooooo nice. Ate one raw while I was cooking.

Gotta go dish up some ice cream for dessert -- with a friend's frozen blackberries that I just thawed. (One more thing OUT of the freezer!)

Oh, those of you on my Facebook feed heard about my wildlife adventures today. First when I was coming home from the store, a young (12-14" shell) snapping turtle had nearly finished crossing the road (I wasn't going to help him) and then two wild turkeys dashed across the road heading in the same direction. (Big Foot probably behind them.) Later at home when I went to take out the kitchen compost, I startled about 21+ turkeys ambling past the deck on their way out to the woods. I love living here!

Linn