ita, damn.

lisah, the place burned down due to faulty wiring? Oh no!

Over-ripe bananas worked as well for my mom for attracting gnats as vinegar, but once they were trapped the vinegar drowned them whereas the fruit provided a breeding ground that had to be disposed of. I vote vinegar.

Of course hers ultimately turned out to be fungus flies coming from a bad pipe, so the solution involved plumbers tearing up the kitchen floor.

Awful scenarios are awful.

This.

Reminder that I need to get my mother's old photographs scanned. Every summer she packs them all in rolly containers so that if there is a hurricane while she is north we can just grab them and evacuate with them. But digital copies would be a good thing.

The ricotta had gone bad. Since this is not how I want to add green to a "white" recipe, I substituted cottage cheese.

Final recipe: Chickpeas, Cauliflowr, cottage cheese, sunflower seeds, onions, garlic, leeks, parsley, sage, rosemary, thyme, marjoram, white pepper, lemon juice, honey, olive oil and mozzarella to be added later on. no added salt cause the beans and cottage and sunflower seeds and mozzarella adds plenty. Will add 3/4 cup of whole wheat shells if there is a lot of liquid to use up. (With that many veggies in a crockpot there normally is, but sunflower seeds can absorb a surprisingly large amount of liquid. )

I feel for my cousin like you wouldn't believe, but a bigger mass of problems I hope to never meet. She's so terribly messed up.

I finally submitted a picture of myself to baldblackbeauties.tumblr.com. Because I am a stickler for semantics on some terms, I was going to hold out until actually bald, but considering what they mean is short & natural and I'm at least a month away from wondering if I'll do it again, I figured I'd go ahead while I'm still taking daily pictures.

(I hope they don't mind pictures without faces [link] I figure that's one way to avoid other semantic issues.)

(I hate that I'm having to replenish my wardrobe again, but I do love buying long black skirts, and I do lovelove this one--it's one of the ones with ties so you can do intermittent ruching)

Sounds yum. The pumpkin chili smells good. Chickpeas, kidney beans, diced tomatoes, pumpkin, chopped red peppers, garlic, cumin, chili powder, red pepper, oregano, other stuff I'm sure I forgot. Now I just need to make the burger for them and the crumbles for me and divide the chili into 2 pots. I also bought some nice looking baguettes and some shredded cheddar to accompany. We need comfort food after the Dolphins game today.

I hope they don't mind pictures without faces [link].

Nice! Really nice.

I feel for my cousin like you wouldn't believe

It is such a feeling of helplessness. Not anything that can be done about peoples bad choices. Sucks.

K-Bug and I went out to brunch at a sports bar today - lots of people hanging to watch all the football. As we parked we noticed a SVU that had a husky in it with the window cracked. It isn't hot hot, but still. I hate to admit that we forgot about the dog while we were eating but when we returned to our car we saw that not only was he still there but there was another dog in the car too. We called the cops. Poor puppies.

That is a gorgeous picture, ita.

A very classical pose, ita!.