I was also about to google how to make my own pastrami.

Talk about avoiding the shallow end of the pool.

I forgot to buy apples at the store! And they were completely out of bacon, and mostly out of sausage -- I had to buy brautworst. This was my first trip to the "big" grocery store in my neighborhood in about a month, I think, and it was really stressful.

I think I'm just gonna keep going to the tiny one around the corner, and mostly give up on meat. They have produce, cheese, milk, and eggs; everything else I can get by without.

That said, I did buy Ben & Jerry's while I was at the store, although even there the selection was limited.

I slept so badly last night that I texted in that I was taking the morning off, and instead went for a run in the park. It was great, beautifully sunny, and I saw about a dozen turkeys and 8 rabbits. And only about 4 people.

I don't quite get the sudden mass brainworm to jump from "I never make bread and now I'm going to do the big commitment version"

I think at least some of that is "I can't find yeast anywhere so let's try capturing my own"?

I forgot I ordered wasabi with my lunch and just ate the whole wad of it in one bite thinking it was some other salad-y thing. Oops.

In regard to the sourdough thing, it could be that people are finding bread out of stock in the stores. Or, when I have a snow day, I have the urge to bake bread ... although (1) there hasn't been a snow day for over a year and (2) I used to bake a lot, but haven't for some time.

2 weeks ago I managed some fresh stuff in my Aldi delivery, but from what I am hearing the larger markets are just way more wiped out.

Mom's has had plenty of fresh produce when I go on Friday morning. And of course you know the Farmer's Market is up and running! Plus Charmington's is doing produce and other grocery sales. We're really fortunate here.

I bought a fair bit of yeast after I bought a bread bowl (a bowl in which you bake bread, not a mixing bowl). But if I hadn't, I'd be leaning toward sourdough. 'Cause I love the scent of baking bread and I definitely have the time at home to take care of it.

Yikes! Wasabi is not lettuce.

You guys made me hungry so I made soup & salad for lunch. I'm skipping breakfast because I have gained so much the past couple months and want to try and do 2 meals a day. Since I do so love my oatmeal that will be dinner. Bigger meal at lunch and breakfast for dinner the next few days and we'll see how it goes.

When I went out yesterday it was the 3rd pair of long pants I tried on that actually fit. Ugh.

Food doesn't seem to be an issue, although honestly I have only been to the store once in the past month. The family seems to be bringing home enough fresh items and I have frozen items already. SIL drove through a CSA type dealio that had boxes of mixed veggies and fruits and gave us a bunch of stuff from that too. She is sending us the info on where it is located. Flat rate $10 or $20 boxes. It was lovely. Yellow tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, berries - and that was just her rejected or excess stuff she dropped to us!

I have to say people I do see are quite compliant with the masks, although some not so much with distancing. But it is hard to know if the walkers/bikers/runners are family units.

I'm supposed to get my delivered vegetables today or tomorrow. That'll be exciting. I think I'm supposed to get eggs with that, as well, but who knows what will actually come - even the CSA is doing substitutions and running out of stuff. I'm on my last half a roll of toilet paper, so I guess I'll be going to a store in the next few days, maybe a couple of stores, I'm not sure what the probability of actually finding some is around here.

Timelies all!

Mr. S has been horrible most of this week. It hasn't helped that Gary has had a lot of conference calls so I've been doing most of the wrangling. Mr. S has continued to take things off my dresser. We found a bunch of boxes and jewelry(much of which he broke) under his dresser. He also somehow broke the remote for the tv in the living room. Did I mention that I'm supposed to be doing work from home? sigh...

The delivery service said they had yeast today, but they didn't. I got almost everything else.