Project Tiddly continues apace, thanks to which I was able to do a tofu stir-fry today, with bok choy getting past its expiry date and healthy-looking mushrooms from the Used Vegetable department (the remainder of which I will roast soon, this time preheating the pan in the oven so it doesn't warp suddenly on me like last time.) Also tinned bamboo ( Read more... )

This living in the future is not all it's cracked up to be. So I fill the online customs form, get a barcode on my phone, and trot off to the Shoppers PO. Yes, the Ossington real PO is closer but the reviews of it are damning and anyway I need to buy a sheet pan and some smoke alarms on the way. So. Arriving mid-afternoon there's none of those ( Read more... )

Mh well, got my covid booster. Moderna this time, and I took Benadryl beforehand and iced the spot after, so we'll see how that works ( Read more... )

Dream of being in a library looking for books to fulfill a project for a class that was happening in the library, on Victorian literature I believe, and not finding them because the shelves were all in different places and I wanted Kipling but the alphabet went from H-I-J to Dj and variants thereof and no Ks at all ( Read more... )

Got a wash on the line in today's brief warmth (22C) and wind. Oliver the Dog hangs out in SND's yard and barks at sight of anyone and everyone, so I hide behind the lattice to pin my clothes out, and watch Oliver on the porch try to figure out where the noise is coming from. The clothesline wheel squeals and nothing stops it, though I've tried WD- ( Read more... )

Well, did two things from the foot-dragging list. Easiest was defrosting the bedroom fridge, once I was certain I was turning it off and not onto its highest setting. All those face cloths I bought a while back definitely came in handy for that ( Read more... )

Nothing day because it was supposed to rain, and did rain, and was dark by the time it stopped raining. I would have ordered in but the website kept playing silly buggers. Skip the Dishes regularly does this, and Uber, aside from everything else hinky about Uber, piles on the surcharges, so can't use them either. Thus I didn't get Indian food or ( Read more... )

Well, today I did All The Things what I have been putting off forever. Put through a laundry and got it on the line, not that it dried completely because humid cloudy Septembers don't do that, even with intermittent sunshine and a breeze. But mostly, and the trousers can go over the upstairs railing until the elastic dries. Cooked up a bunch of ( Read more... )

I will learn eventually that if I'm going to vacuum and dust anywhere, especially an anywhere that hasn't been vacuumed and dusted in several months, that I must must must wear a mask. But at least the front bedroom is devoid of the worst of the dust bunnies. Given that yesterday I washed the kitchen floor and degreased half the stovetop, I can let ( Read more... )

It may have cooled off. No storms or great deluges or wind, just a cloudy day that never got much above 20. Weather probs simultaneously called for scattered thunderstorms and a POP of 5%, and it looked like rain all the humid day, so I stayed in and read ( Read more... )