“Remoted” – Day 187 (Saturday)

The week of chilly mornings has set the thoughts to fall. It hasn't felt like a gradual easing in. Perhaps it's great that the fall/winter stuff from last year was never put away. It made finding a sweater easy today. And soup was made. Soup is how I survive cold weather, so this is kind of the warm up.

This morning at 8:30 there was the chopping of kale, celery, onions, carrots, and potatoes. An exploration of the freezer yielded broccoli, roasted butternut squash and Gardein soy protein meatballs. An absence of bread led to the idea of making biscuits. 

The Bisquick box had an option for dumplings, and never having had dumplings, I figured “why not?” Ten spoonfuls of the dough were dropped into the soup. Of the three of us eating soup, Mom and I were not exactly fans of the dumplings. I ate the two heavy, doughy blobs in my bowl, but dumplings are on my list of things I never, ever need to try again. Bleeech. It will be baked biscuits henceforth.

Dumplings? Yuck!.

As for the rest of the day, the bulkhead is painted a bright blue, the deck has a gate and a stone step, the lawn is mowed. 

It’s all thanks to the awesome, amazing StepDad. It was another day sitting in the sunshine under a clear blue sky hanging with Mom while the dogs paced and sat and barked and were mildly entertaining. It was great day.