Foraged oranges, pasta measuring, plumbing thoughts

Friday's walk was mild, and loud with birdsong, and Happy New Year to the concrete rabbit. I wonder if his hearing is affected by ear loss.

I found abandoned fruit on my walk, and brought home two oranges.

I'm allergic to (eating) oranges, and these look like the windfalls Sally Pointer used for bergamot boxes, so I figured they're worth a shot.  Anyway they came home with me. Watch this space for potential boxes.

At home I saw this van in my former parking spot, and took a picture because it reminded me of vague ideas about getting one of my bathtubs converted into a walk in shower.  

They were working next door and I may ask, if it was about renovating, if they liked the work.  I notice the van refers to bathroom renovation, rather than plumbing repairs.

Right now I have no problem stepping into the bathtub to shower, and don't need to sit.  But that day may come. I do have that sliding bench thing I used after surgery, but I wonder if renovation might be good. Aside from the $$$$ involved.

Anyway shortly after that, Gary came dashing in to find out if I had a plumbing emergency, was I okay. Not my house, I explained, not my monkeys. He had a couple of good suggestions about bathroom contractors but agreed about the $$$$ side. 

Today's cooking involved peanut butter granola bars, breakfast for a few days.

And I was looking at one of those handy hack videos and here's one I never noticed 

I never realized those openings are measuring devices for pasta. I thought they were drainage. I must try this.

And one thing you really need to avoid, in online shopping, is clicking the wrong tiny box on your screen.

Years ago I was trying to order one bottle of malt vinegar, my favorite, and instead got a lifetime supply of single serve packets of same. I gave quite a few to the food pantry, but still have more than enough.

I like malt vinegar on roast potatoes with chicken, so I'm frequently reminded about this ordering miss. And wonder if I have a malt vinegar SABLE. Supply Available Beyond Lifetime Expectancy. This usually applies to yarn.

Happy day everyone, there's worse things than too much vinegar.

Answers to two puzzles, lunch and knitting

I'm trying the idea of blogging in the evening, just as a change from writing in the morning, brain semi functioning, eyes not yet focused. Maybe evening will work better.

Today ze moment of trrrruth, the mystery next door is solved

I'd say that's conclusive evidence that they're renovating a bathroom. I rest my case.

And the carrot/lentil soup is beautiful, golden power soup,  part of an excellent lunch, here with pita bread filled with fresh spinach and mashed sardines in olive oil, handful of cherries to follow. 

 A different form of food is this book I just started

She's a serious knitter ss well as writer, who traveled about Britain researching knitting traditions and styles and trying them herself . 

Looking forward to this and hoping she doesn't retail any of the knitting myths which are constantly being Snoped and still circulating. 

Like the one about the women knitting special designs into their fishermen relatives' sweaters so as to identify them if they drowned.   

I mean, if that had been an issue, how much easier to knit in his name, as one myth exploder says! Too true, but people insist on romantic stories to the point of inventing them.

Anyway, on to the other puzzle which I think a number of people got, the eight letter word beginning and ending with ke.

KEEPSAKE.  It seemed impenetrable at first and I tried various hopeless words before it occurred to me. 

Debra and Tom are the lightning swift puzzlers around here, I think, over the horizon, while the rest of us are panting up the straightaway to the finish a bit later.

Happy day, or evening, everyone, may all your puzzles become self evident.

Oh, since everyone has been too exquisitely polite to ask if this virus which may, don't look now, be lifting, was maybe Covid, and had I had the sense to check: I did a home test. Negative. 

So I'm still a Novid. It's a nonCOVID virus, who knows what, possibly RSV. But thankfully going away now.