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So the slow erosion of reliable transportation infrastructure means that once again Tucker won't be here when expected. I have these holidays; what am I going to do with them?
I think I'll order a pizza, to start. We don't have delivery but our town does somehow have 1.5 pizza places (one with new ownership that does well, one that's been here twenty years that doesn't answer the phone and is only open on some, undisclosed, days but who the longtime locals defend to the death).
I'll do some grocery shopping and splurge on salad ingredients (lettuce is roughly $9/salad these days at the grocery store) and make a bunch of carrot sticks and cut fruit and whatnot and some smoked oysters and nice crackers and fancy olives.
I'll get out the meat slicer and slice a kg or two of prosciutto, coppa, etc.
Sewing will occur. Let's aim for a full base-and-midlayer outfit (2 tops, 2 bottoms, socks, slipperboots, and another set of fingerless gloves with a bonus if I do more gaiters) by the end of the weekend. I think I'm at the point where I can fit those garments well enough.
I'll do some cleaning so the house feels a little nicer. It's been backburnered lately in favour of survival-type activities.
Refill the woodrack.
I'll need to clean the chimney sooner or later. I'll be less anxious if it's sooner. The temp hasn't come down enough yet but it will.
I made a date to go cook with Ron on boxing day, which I think will be lovely even if he doesn't have a kitchen. I'm bringing a duck. Should I brine it? Funnily enough I haven't seen his new place yet but I know what part of town he's in, so I think I can just drive around till I see his vehicle to figure out where he lives.
I want to do some cooking. Cookies, crackers, bread, maybe a stew*, and some kind of squash-sprinkled-with-sugar-and-bruleed?
I do grocery pickup this Saturday for the expired produce at the store; maybe the geese and pigs will get some nice treats? Tbh I fed out all my treats during the cold. The dogs blasted through several lbs of fatty pork per day, the geese ate all their bell peppers, etc.
*I've discovered that everything savory and vaguely liquidy/saucy, like stew, butter chicken, soup of all descriptions, etc, is vastly improved by the addition of 1/8tsp of marmite.
I think I'll order a pizza, to start. We don't have delivery but our town does somehow have 1.5 pizza places (one with new ownership that does well, one that's been here twenty years that doesn't answer the phone and is only open on some, undisclosed, days but who the longtime locals defend to the death).
I'll do some grocery shopping and splurge on salad ingredients (lettuce is roughly $9/salad these days at the grocery store) and make a bunch of carrot sticks and cut fruit and whatnot and some smoked oysters and nice crackers and fancy olives.
I'll get out the meat slicer and slice a kg or two of prosciutto, coppa, etc.
Sewing will occur. Let's aim for a full base-and-midlayer outfit (2 tops, 2 bottoms, socks, slipperboots, and another set of fingerless gloves with a bonus if I do more gaiters) by the end of the weekend. I think I'm at the point where I can fit those garments well enough.
I'll do some cleaning so the house feels a little nicer. It's been backburnered lately in favour of survival-type activities.
Refill the woodrack.
I'll need to clean the chimney sooner or later. I'll be less anxious if it's sooner. The temp hasn't come down enough yet but it will.
I made a date to go cook with Ron on boxing day, which I think will be lovely even if he doesn't have a kitchen. I'm bringing a duck. Should I brine it? Funnily enough I haven't seen his new place yet but I know what part of town he's in, so I think I can just drive around till I see his vehicle to figure out where he lives.
I want to do some cooking. Cookies, crackers, bread, maybe a stew*, and some kind of squash-sprinkled-with-sugar-and-bruleed?
I do grocery pickup this Saturday for the expired produce at the store; maybe the geese and pigs will get some nice treats? Tbh I fed out all my treats during the cold. The dogs blasted through several lbs of fatty pork per day, the geese ate all their bell peppers, etc.
*I've discovered that everything savory and vaguely liquidy/saucy, like stew, butter chicken, soup of all descriptions, etc, is vastly improved by the addition of 1/8tsp of marmite.
