Another check on the chicken of the woods shows it's a bit past its prime, but definitely has a texture like chicken breast.
Still flowers holding on
And the rabbit still guarding his territory
No mast at all this year, acorns, black walnuts, nothing. I wonder if the heatwave is the reason.
While I was scrabbling about searching for beechnuts among huge fallen leaves, bigger this year
I found a mysterious coin
I wondered if it was a long lost treasure, and once home set it against a new dime
Once cleaned with lemon juice and salt, it revealed itself as a 1970s copper dime, exciting. You can see the sandwich effect on the milling around the edge, copper core. Mounting excitement, checked on the value
So it seems that my thin dime is worth one thin dime. Ah. Unless finding it in the woods constitutes the special circumstances they mention.
Then to lunch and the toaster oven, now in daily use. I found I had a small glass baking dish which will fit, and made parmesan potatoes. You need glass for this. Bed of shredded parm, roast the potatoes, let them sit five minutes, then break them apart and enjoy the best toasted cheese potatoes ever.
Browned the sausage, hot Italian turkey sausage, with the onions and garlic
Then removed the sausage and continued. Added lentils too, then blended it, bit of milk to oppose the fairly acid flavor of the green tomatoes, then added the sausage back in
Sturdy, hearty, meal in a bowl soup.
And respect, nearing the election, to people who do this in order to vote
And in book form, in case you were running out of Mma Ramotswe, there's a new one, quick and pleasant read.
This is why I waited for a pet free house to do puzzles, the current one being a whole lot more fun than the parrot in the jungle.
Happy day everyone, puzzle on. If your clocks just changed, try not to get confused. In the US we have the clock confusion yet to come.