Good advice, Misfits and Sock 'n Glove Ministry

 So this

This blog was started so many years ago as a daily lifeline and continuing unfolding artwork during the last years of Handsome Partner's life. 

It kept me going, to honor our joint efforts as his health and my freedom declined, and the isolation of caregiving grew. With my second blog, Art the Beautiful Metaphor,  I  recorded my art, continued during the hardest years of caregiving.  And now this wise comment reminds me to go on.  

Each entry is a tiny bit of the mosaic of my life and our online friendship, and now is not the time to draw back.  It's valuable and if I don't continue, evil will have won. Not today.

After that highfalutin' flourish, here's where I am.

Yesterday, beautiful weather again, I did a bit of garden cleanup and tossing, swept the deck yet again, and received my misfits box.

You'll note the chocolate bar, so timely and welcome,   as it now turns out, and the lovely plant-based sausage and panko, which is now several burgers with panko breading. With roasted potato dice, using three of those small potatoes. 

This morning there will be strawberries and seedy toast for breakfast quite soon. The fish is scheduled for whenever the beans and rice dish and the burgers are done. Can of corn for Thanksgiving, which will be another joint affair. Cranberries ordered this week. 

I will get back to making yogurt after this week, just needed a break. Meanwhile Nancy is coming through.  And I seem to have too many eggs, having forgotten to check before ordering. So egg recipes in my future. I did make mayo, so there's always egg salad. And eggs baked with cheese and tomato. Omelets. Shakshuka. 

Yesterday, grimly determined, I finished the second sock of the second pair for the Sock 'n Glove ministry.

One more glove and I'll send off a little parcel. Two pairs of socks and one pair of gloves. Then I'll see what's next, upcycling jackets, stitching the fabric book, the beaded piece, what, what?  I will finish what I'm on before starting a new item, that I plan.  As of now anyway! Open to revision.

As well as the latest Mma Ramotswe, I'm reading

Very helpful to a jangled mind right now.

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