Went garage sailing and found a little red wagon for $6. I've been looking for one for years to hold plants in the garden. Every one I've seen so far has been way more money than I was willing to spend so this was perfect. Well, perfect would have been rustier, maybe with holes in the bottom. This had been repainted in the inside and is still very red-red--not that I'm complaining. It was the score of the morning.
I also got a book on poultry management from the 40's or 50's. I've read that picking up one of those is good when thinking about backyard poultry. I never thought I'd just find one of them somewhere. I also got an overpriced snowflake pin and a doll to practice dremeling upon.
The day started gray and promising storms, but ended up sunny and not too hot. I decided to just drive around in the country. Found myself at Butler Farms and picked some bland thornless blackberries and some fairly good raspberries. I bought a surprisingly delicious blackberry pie, a beautiful, chunky heirloom tomato; some lovely sunflowers; and a peck of peaches.
L called while I was driving home and we had a nice conversation. She wanted to know what I thought of the box she'd sent. Unfortunately, I found that having written her the email about it meant that I'd performed a memory dump and couldn't remember everything. I did remember which mask I liked best--resoundingly the red one. The blue came second. I liked them all but the red was my favorite.
I made a blackberry/raspberry crumble, but, experimental tasting seems to suggest that the purchased pie is tastier--made with a better tasting sort of blackberry is my guess. The recipe called for vanilla in the fruit...hrm...luckily I only put in 1/2 the amount called for as this was not an inspired idea. I sort of winged it a bit--also added some brandy and lemon juice to try to make up for the blackberries.
Dinner was the cheese/salsa sauce I made that was too salty to use with salted chips--on top of baked potatoes. It was delicious. I made a roux and added milk and cheese. Then dumped in a can of chunky salsa. I'd like to try the massively vegetabled salsa from Safeway next time.
Warehouse 13, Robot Chicken, now to bed.
