Monday, October 31, 2022

...10.31...Over the Weekend...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
...Trunk-or-Treat was a huge success again this year...it was very breezy and I had to use a lot of tape to hold the Frankenstein onto the car...but it turned out super cute!...
...there were lots of decorated trunks...
...and people started to arrive early...the event started at 6:00 PM...
...this cute couple had to tell us who they were...if you're all hip and that...you probably know...so when we got home we watched a few episodes...they're characters from a TV series...it's not new...Over the Garden Wall...potatoes and molasses anyone?...
...there was a goat...named Harper...
...and a Wookie and a Mandalorian...I snapped this photo just for Our Airman...he's a huge SW fan...
...there were hayrides around the graveyard again this year...very popular...
...a couple of fire trucks...
...as it got darker...Frankenstein got eerier...
...there was a lot going on in the fellowship hall as well...
...there were lots of snacks...
...and games and prizes...it was a fun evening!...
...but before that...earlier in the day...I picked up the groceries...
...all of this is for a recipe the Man found...I think it's called Tofu Marsala...
...the only other thing of note was these Holiday grapes...I do love grapes...they're a snack and a drink at the same time...
...Oh...and I had to drop some stuff off at Goodwill...and it was half price day...so there was no place to park...Good for them!...so of course I had to have a quick browse...I didn't need anything at all...but I spied this cute pumpkin and thought it would be perfect for passing out candy...
...it was marked $1.99...so I got it for $1...deal!

~Wishing you a lovely start to your Week!

Saturday, October 29, 2022

...10.29...Dinner and a Movie...

...cheat night...or easie-peasie night...we picked up vegan pizza from our local pizzeria...they just started having vegan cheese as an option...and when I called to order she asked if I also wanted the vegan marinara sauce...well...of course...I guess I shouldn't have assumed the sauce was vegan...she said their regular sauce has cheese in it...goodd to know...the pizza was delicious...the crust was perfect...
...and when I went in to pick it up...I noticed that they have Italian Ice...so I asked if it was vegan...and several flavors are...so I got us each a cup of strawberry ice...I wish now that I had picked two different flavors...haha...but I'll probably eventually try them all...haha...they had a cookies and cream ice that wasn't vegan and another one that I don't remember...but Strawberry, Lemon, Cherry, Mango, Pineapple, Blueberry, and Blackberry were all vegan...yum!

...and I should have mentioned it yesterday in the update...I just finished reading (or re-reading - I'm pretty sure we either read the entire book (it's not long) or excerpts for some class in college)...Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness...

...the Man and I had several conversations about the book and the movie Apocalypse Now...you guessed it...that was the movie...

...I have of course seen the movie before...more than once...and I have watched the entire thing - unlike a lot of other disturbing movies...it was one of the weekly movies shown at the theater when I was at University...so that would have been the first time I saw it...also with the Man...and a bunch of his frat buddies...haha...and I think we probably watched it sometime in the mid-eighties with my sissie and her hubby...anywhoo...it was making me wish that I hadn't mentioned the book I was reading to him...if I'd known he was going to choose this movie I might not have...haha...not really possible for me as I can chatter on and on about most books I'm reading...right Mom?...

...and I think having just read the book...made it a little bit more disturbing...so I tried to knit most of the way through it...

...what have you been watching lately?...

~Have a lovely day!

Friday, October 28, 2022

...10.28...Friday Update...

...Kitten update...aren't cats just the sweetest when they curl up into a tight little ball like this...
...speaking of kittens...this weeks puzzle (borrowed from the Man's Mom)...is a passle of kittens...and the Man said he wasn't even going to help work on it he hates cats so much...haha...not true...and Kitten loves him best for sure...
...with four hands...these 300 piece puzzles are easily doable in an evening...so we just puzzled and chatted away an entire evening...
...for some reason it's amazingly difficult to photograph a finished puzzle...ha!
...I spent a little bit of time...(seriously little)...and $1.25 for a green dollar store table cloth...to make this year's Trunk or Treat trunk...I already had the black paper and the white is just printer paper...Super-Dooper easy...and I think it turned out cute...that's for tomorrow night's Trunk-or-Treat at the Church...and the weather is supposed to be perfect...
...and so I also did a tiny little bit of Halloween decorating...you can barely see the "Hello Pumpkin" Porch Pillow in the background...and I just got out our two old old old Jack-O-Lanterns...and tied our sweet little non-scary witch to the stair rail...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your weekend!

Thursday, October 27, 2022

...10.27...What I Ate in a Day...as a Vegan...

...yesterday seemed like a 'weird' sort of eating day for me...I really felt like I ate a lot...maybe too many snacks...haha...
...the day started normally enough...early...I had a bowl of this shredded wheat cereal...like mini wheats but not frosted...those ones aren't vegan as they have...I don't remember...eggs or gelatin or something in the glaze...I added a pinch of stevia for sweetness...and some almond milk...
...so...by mid-morning I was hungry...and I had snack #1...which was a slice of homemade wheat bread toasted and topped with peanut butter and jelly...and tea...of course...
...lunch was really just kind of another snack...I wasn't too hungry for some reason haha...the Man ate leftover soup...we've been eating a lot of soup lately...but I used some of the vegan cheeze sauce I'd made earlier...to make a quick bowl of vegan mac and cheese...and ate up that little jar of left over lima beans...I didn't even put them in a bowl...but just ate out of the jar...
...so then...guess what...mid-aftenoon...I was hungry again...so I got out some Kedem Special Tea cookies...
...and added a dollop of peanut butter...
...to make a sort of sandwich coookie...
...which I had with tea...of course...this snack always reminds me of Romper Room snacks that Mom used to make...often graham crackers spread with peanut butter and sandwiched...fun...
...and then I made about the quickest little supper I've made in a while...it's soy curls rehydrated in some vegan chick'n bouillon...and then I just made a quick bechamel white sauce sort of gravy using almond milk...and added a few good handfuls of frozen mixed veg...
...and then I got a couple of hamburger buns out of the freezer...see...this is the problem with me sticking little odds and ends like this in the freezer...if I don't make a concerted effort to get them out and use them...they'll just wind up going to waste anyway...see the date on these...
...and it made a very satisfying quick supper...sort of like a deconstructed pot pie...

...what did you eat yesterday?...

~Have a lovely day!

Wednesday, October 26, 2022

...10.26...W.I.P. Wednesday...

...progress on the second two toned footlet...I've turned the heel and just knitting the straight knitting part before you join it at the toe to knit in the round...

...what's in your workbasket this week?...

~Have a lovely day!

Tuesday, October 25, 2022

...10.25...Tuesdays with Julia...

...we made these delicious grated potato pancakes...Julia calls them VEGAN CRÊPES DE POMME DE TERRE...
...we had ours with our vegan tofu steaks...carrots and spinach...and applesauce...

...they were delicious and all of the particulars are over at The Vegan Version...
...these are the really quick vegan tofu 'steaks' that I made for this meal...I just baked some thick slices of tofu in the oven...then slathered them with Earth Balance while they were still hot...
...then spread on a thin layer of Marmite...really thin...you definitely don't want to overdo this one...
...Marmite adds a certain...sort of earthy-irony flavor...I think...
...and finally sprinkle on some vegan beef flavored bouillon...and that's all there is to that...super easy...

~Have a lovely day!

Monday, October 24, 2022

...10.24...Over the Weekend...

...so this was the weekend in North Carolina that fall "happened"...
...when you get the right number of cool days and the leaves really begin to turn...en force...
...and right now the weather is gorgeous and there is fall colour everywhere...
...I liked this photo...of a tree in our yard...for some reason...it looks like a grainy old instamatic 3 x 5...
...I did a little bit of food prep for the coming week...a pot of collards...
...a batch of hummus...
...and a loaf of homemade bread...my bread machine is still on it's last legs...but still working...
...another perfect loaf...
...I did the grocery shopping...nothing of note...except maybe the Pinquinto Beans...on sale for 50¢ a can...and the Man won't be getting any more creamy Silk...it was on closeout...too bad...
...and we harvested the very last of the basil before it frosts...and just put it into a bag to freeze for later...it'll be ok for sauces and such...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!