We had a lof fun on our weekly visit up north. I brought one cheese monger friend a jar of my chutney, she'd enjoy. Two bakeries for different goods, a second cheese shop for their own products. Then up in Bellingham to a great import store for treats for friends. Great day! Support local business

LOL! 🤣 I feel like I'm cheating in a relationship. We've had lunch at our favorite taqueria for many years on our weekly provisions run. Today we ate at another Mexican joint. I had the pozole, I've never seen it clear, it's usually red with rehydrated chilies. It's really quite delicious.

Some of the leaves at Magnuson Park are still hanging on. We had an early start for the provisions run in Skagit Valley, the shops are going to be crowded, I have ingredients to buy.

A fall inspired pizza. Sourdough crust topped with a garlic,Parmesan white sauce, then thin sliced pears, prosciutto, and Gorgonzola. It was worth waiting all day for.

Yum! My green tomato chutney is really good. I'm glad I didn't let all the small green tomatoes go to waste. I got a liter and a cup out of the batch.

To hell with tRump and Putin and the billionaires who support them. Global dominance is not going to happen for them, this isn't a scripted movie. They will screw up. World citizens have had enough.

So far I have come up with three Thanksgiving menus. Then I scrapped them. It's just the two of us, so no crazy expectations. I think I'm just going to do a center cut pork loin roast that I will butterfly and filled with dried apricots. Then I'll have a couple of side dishes, importantly, dressing.

Good morning. It would have been my dad's birthday today, I've been in deep thought about him. He would have appreciated this sunrise today, he might have something to do with it. Have a good day.

I made the hubs pasta that's not gluten free. Creamy from a ton of feta and good olive oil. Brininess from oil cured olives, capers, garlic, chili flakes along with a bit of anchovy in the bread crumbs on top. There's broiled grape tomatoes and asparagus in there somewhere. Dinner for one.

Oh heck yes!! My house smells crazy delicious right now. I have a batch of green tomato chutney in the stove. Besides vinegar, I added tamarind paste and mulberry molasses for some tang. It also has fresh ginger, raisins, onion, garlic, cinnamon, allspice, fennel seed, mustard seed, and red pepper.

Early morning at one of the Beaver ponds. There's no activity, just a heron looking for his breakfast. It should be easy for me to get here when it's dark, I just never seem to make it.

I'm so glad the hubs is easy to cook for. Stir fried smoked apple sausage with cabbage including onion, a diced hot red pepper, sliced apple, and added at the last minute, some tiny roasted potatoes. Yum! Simple, inexpensive, quick, and yum.

The new album by Florence and the Machine is really good. Damn, it's deep. There seems to be a lot of reflection about her past traumas. I listened twice in a row while doing yardwork. I need to listen more. I like it. We have tickets to see her again, in the spring. Her shows are excellent.

Sixteen years ago today these two, Claude and Lulu, came into our lives and changed it for the better. Thanks for the 15 1/2 years buddies, we miss you.

The fog is lifting, it's looking pretty cool in the Beaver pond area. The weather should break a little bit, my achy bones might get some yard work done.

I got here early to catch the sunrise. The fog had a different idea, it's completely moved in. Oh well. Well it was really pretty for a minute. Have a great day.

Woohoo! I just got a text from my PCP telling me that my blood work numbers are in and look good. My cholesterol and associated numbers are excellent. Woohoo! Hard work and perseverance paid off. Back to pruning shrubs.

3 years ago today. Lulu loved frozen frosty mornings.

It's pretty gray down here on the shores of Lake Washington today. So today we're going back 3 years to today via social media. It was much prettier that day. I'm hoping for a bit of a break in the rain today so I can do some pruning.

I like peacan pie but it's too sweet. For many years now I make my pecan pie a tart. I throw frozen cranberries in the food processor with semi sweet chocolate chips and orange zest to break it down a bit, add this to my pecan pie filling then bake as usual and it rocks. My most requested dessert.

The big dark is upon us with the sun setting at 4:30. I don't even try and stay up late anymore, I can't. So I'm up early. This is a brief sunbreak at Marymoor Park, today will be much wetter than this. Have a good day.

This one s a long clip for me to post. The "Special Pastoral Message on Immigration" by the US Conference of Bishops is going to ruffle a lot of feathers. I think it's been out less than a week. It's spreading rapidly. I'm curious to see the reactions. share.google/n1kRpnK0Fhgy...

Perfectly, beautifully dreary at a Skagit Valley wildlife sanctuary.

I love beer; I'm a full on beer geek. We love going to different breweries. I gave up beer in May due to AFib. I thought I would lose a lot of weight. 8# is all I lost. I don't eat any more than I used to, I eat healthy food. The lack of weight loss is a huge disappointment for me. I exercise daily

We're heading out earlier than usual today. I'm sharing a year ago today social media memory from one year ago today because it's sloppy outside. Have a great day

I needed comfort food on a dreary wet day. Tuna noodle casserole for the win.

A sloppy wet day requires soup making. This white bean and ham soup will be tastier over the weekend. I have comfort food ready for dinner later this evening.

Seattle in November is not for for the warmth seekers, you've almost got to be a pluviophile to want this weather. November is just wet, today is no exception. Instead of my morning walk today I got to take 14 bags of raked up leaves to the local transfer station.

Classically, this Galacian soup is made with white beans and turnip greens, I used cooked dried chicken peas and some of their water, mashing them and kale. This Caldo Gallego has a ham bone broth, sausage, onion, garlic,all cooked with potatoes as well as the greens and beans. It's wet outside.

Mother nature is complementing my mood today. Gray, still, lifeless, and a touch of hopeful.

I haven't walked this particular trail in many months. It triggered fucking emotion I have. I miss Claude and Lulu. I miss their smell. I miss the dog hair all over the house. I miss holding them in my arms. I miss Lulu's bad attitude. I miss Claude's blank stare. It's going to be a long day

Good morning. It's a sloppy wet walk down here on the shores of Lake Washington today. That's all, just sloppy. Have a great day.

Do you like my groovy place mats. 🤣 My table cloth is clean. I made vegan kimchi jjigae with shitake and tofu, brown rice. The banchan was sesame, ginger bean sprouts along a pear and carrot salad with ginger honey vinegar.

The dahlia just aren't ready to give it up for winter. The white one blows me away for its size. The purple/yellow one makes me happy every year

Woohoo! Although cloudy, and damp from a morning rain, I got to mow my lawn this afternoon. For those of you not familiar with the pnw, that's a big deal. November is historically our wettest month. Now if I can just find my benefactor, one who will finance a meadow garden for me instead of a lawn.

My day just can't get any better. It's a rainy walk, but it started off with seeing the beaver paddling across the lake. And now I just saw three deer, a rarity in this Urban Park. And 11 years. I've only seen them twice before here at Magnuson.

It's always a good day when I see one of the ark beavers paddling through the lake. Good morning, from an overcast gray Lake Washington.

I was hungry! I had an accomplished day in the yard cleaning up fall...it fell. I had a large, overloaded broccoli baked potato with cheese sauce. I ate the broccoli off the top then reloaded with more broccoli and cheese sauce. Heck yeah! I earned it.

Last night I wanted pad Thai so I made tofu pad Thai.

A social media memory from 5 years ago. Someday I'll clean up my photo files, I have a couple of good ones.

Thanks to those that served in the US Armed Services. A special thanks to my mom and dad who used the learned skill to raise children to be proud of the US.

Good morning, from the shores of Lake Washington. It's going to shape up to be a pretty nice day. Hopefully I can get the leaves from all of my neighbors trees raked up. Have a good day.

Potty mouth all the way, but we're of the thought line! Fuck the fascists. www.facebook.com/share/r/1BJC...

I guess what ticks me off the most about these billionaires is that they are so damn tone deaf. The question is simple, they made their money off of us, the people. Take away the money, they all are no more, or no less than we are. You don't need to have so much! FFS! www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

I love this woman! www.facebook.com/share/r/17Tm...

Got breakfast made for both of us, packed the hubs hot lunch, got my walk in. I just finished errands. The grocery stores are really screwing us. They can lower prices if they want to. I was food bank shopping for low sugar, low sodium minimally processed food. Corporate fucking greed everywhere.

Good morning from Magnuson Park on Lake Washington. I'm just hoping I don't get soaked on my morning walk, outside of this breek sunbreak, the skies appear threatening. Oh well. I've been wet before. Have a good day.

It's another beautiful day at lumen Field or the Seahawks game.

Yum! Rib sticking sausage and cheese grits before football.