Misfits and they slipped on the bananas

The squirrels were out Thursday morning to check on the pumpkin seeds. Word has got out.

This is a favorite food and they lost no time in finding and setting up to guard and eat them. 

Thursday the misfits insulated bag and ice block went out early, good thing because the delivery came very early shortly after nine am.

And, yes, we have no bananas. They were supposed to appear on top of the box in some fancy bag. 

I wonder if the drivers didn't get the message, since for years they've been delivering just a box. I reported it and their system must be blinking, because they only credited me with one bunch, instead of both. No doubt they'll fix this. They're good about it.

So, extra canned goods for the food pantry, cranberries for next week's sauce. I'll make it ahead and freeze it, not knowing when we celebrate this year, HS always working Thanksgiving.  

Here's the cranberry sauce in progress

Garlic paste because it's so useful everywhere I use garlic.  Spinach and parsley for greens, to be added into tofu, see it there, dishes and other things. A bunch dropped into hot soup is good, just wilts it enough. 

Apples as usual, blueberries for desserts and maybe muffins this week. Sardines for quick protein sandwiches. Diced tomatoes get in everywhere. One of my easy meals, really more assembly than cooking,  is chickpeas and tomatoes heated together with seasoning. It works like a stew, spinach gets in there, too. 

Thursday early the car buyer called, wondering if I'd like an earlier appointment, he had cancellations Thursday. But I left it at Friday, not wanting to be rushed. I didn't want to be wrangling groceries and the car sale together.

About anniversaries: I remember none of the dates of death of any relative other than one brother when I was young, and Handsome Partner, because that was also Handsome Son's birthday. I remember everyone's birthday though. I think it's better to remember them then, anyway.

Happy day everyone. It's okay to remember or forget, often it's not our choice.

White Rabbits! Yes we have bananas, And music

 Suddenly it's November, after a wonderful October, and here's the monthly artisan

Working at her rigid heddle loom. That bit sticking up is the rigid heddle. The other sort of heddle is the string heddle, one string attached to each warp thread to raise and lower, changing the shed, to enable the weft to pass alternately across the work. 

I have a rigid heddle loom, like that one and here's a wall hanging I made on mine,  threads courtesy of Kamala, thank you.

And there's always music. If you've never heard Cecilia Bartoli, the most wonderful coloratura singer ever, you might enjoy finding her on YouTube. She sings a lot of Vivaldi, right up to Puccini.

The second link shows you the score as she sings, and if you can read music, you marvel at the total mastery of the complex runs and figures. Or you can just listen and enjoy, too.

Today seems to be about saluting the arts,so here's a painting that you could write a book about, so brilliant and complex is the composition.

I'm waving my arms just looking at it, all the interlocking shapes and directions, the echoing curves everywhere, the color directing your eye, the virtuosic total of it, the impact. 

And now for something completely different. My honorary granddaughter recruited her colleagues to go bananas for Halloween

Which leads me to yesterday's Misfits box 

Except today I'm finally making pease pudding, which I've been meaning to make for months and kept forgetting to soak the split peas overnight. 

I finally remembered. Left dried peas, right soaked peas ready to cook. 

Happy day everyone, remember to do yesterday what you forgot for today, and be grateful if your mind is less of a ragbag than that of your humble blogger.