Since it’s our first weekend after our first week back at work after the holidays – albeit a three-day week – we kept this weekend pretty open and easy. I’ve been trying to do lots of New Year type activities – straightening and organizing, using up, throwing away, recycling. Walking more, and eating less sweets.
Saturday morning slept late and went to the indoor farmers’ market. The pickings were kind of slim – the effects of the drought and weird March 2012 hot snap. No apples, and just not a lot to choose from. But I think some of the farmers might still be on vacation, too.
I had a big breakfast (but nothing real sugary), and then I did a few car errands – left the house with the trunk full and came back with it empty, so that’s good. Took unsold Local Foods Journals back to Terese, fed-exed a broken casserole dish back to the chef’s catalog, and took a big basket of clean laundry & plastic containers over to E. Wash.
I made some minestrone-like vegetable soup for dinner, and a batch of oat bread – one small loaf and a pan of buns. We ate and then went to see Lincoln – at one of the multi-plexes on the outskirts of town – it’s not playing at the fancy-schmancy Sundance Theater that’s closer. I liked it – and what a lot of great male actors in it – in all varieties of 19th century facial and head hair and dress. I especially liked James Spader and Tommy Lee Jone’s wig. But I found it hard to follow, so I put the book it’s based on on hold at the library the next morning.
On Sunday, I went for a walk first thing, then we had the big Sunday breakfast, just Mark & me – and Al finished the last few bits of bacon & potatoes while he was doing his laundry. I made some winter wheat salad, and poached Asian pears. My chores for the day were weeding magazines, and I thought I’d investigate some blog upgrades. The theme I currently use – Scott Wallick’s Very Plain Text – is really great work, but Scott’s kind of left the Word Press development world and gone on to other things, and it’s not been updated since 2010. It also puts out XHTML, and I’d like to use a theme that does HTML5. I made it through weeding the New Yorkers, but I didn’t get to the food mags. And – blog updating … I waffled on that as well. I’m on the newest Word Press and all my plugins are updated … I think I’m going to play around with developing a new look blog, separately, under wraps, and then if I like it, I’ll figure out some way to close down here, and point everyone to the new.
I made the leftover roasted vegetables from new year’s into veggie broth. I kept thinking they were longer leftover than they really are – new years was a Tuesday brunch. not Sunday. The broth’ll have to be strained and the solids taken out to the compost – more straightening and organizing. And I made Melissa Clark’s roasted squash pie, but with a gingersnap crust to use up the last of the Moravian ginger thins – but I must’ve over-roasted the squash – the puree was really dry, and the filling is really thick. We’re going to eat it in front of Downton Abby; maybe we can correct its flaws with ice cream.
