A couple of random kitchen shots this week . . .
When I make my collard salads, I put just a little bit of maple syrup in the dressing. The collards can use the sweetness. Last time I was preparing the collards, there was just a tiny bit of maple syrup in the syrup pourer*, so I just took off the top and was very pleased to find that the upended pourer fit perfectly in the salad dressing jar to drain out.
Drip drip.
The quantities of food I purchase these days come in very large containers. These would be awkward to cook with regularly, so I spend a lot of time decanting from giant containers into more-manageable ones. As I did with the molasses I got this week.
Between gingersnaps and homemade barbecue sauce, I go through more molasses than your average person.
I took a picture of my cart of groceries this week, just because there weren't very many--I'm anticipating a much bigger stock-up trip to Walmart soon--and I was betting with myself that it would still be more than a hundred dollars.
It was, but mostly because I bought alcohol. Without that, it would have been ninety dollars.
This was right next to the front door of the fancy hotel I stayed in last week.
Correctly identified by the son with me as the Virgin of Guadalupe. That's Juan Diego kneeling.
Having something like that outside a random hotel is so New Mexico.
I purchased a new toilet this week to replace the one in the adults' bathroom. The box was one of the more intriguing things I've seen in awhile.
There's a lot going on here.
The scatalogical motto I can see, but why did a toilet maker name their company after a Roman statesman? Then I looked it up and discovered that Cato is said to have met with an Egyptian king while on the toilet, to convey disrespect. Oooookay.
We don't yet know what a "destroyer flush" is, but I guess we'll see when A. installs the toilet.
And last, flowers!
I used apricot branches in this week's altar arrangement. I felt like the background needed to be darker and more solid to show up better on the altar.
It looks better from farther away, so I think it will work.
There you have it! My life, snapshotted.
* I actually bought one of these maple syrup dispensers like they have at diners. We use maple syrup a lot, and these really are the best and least-messy way to pour it.
