Sat 2 Nov

Another call last night on the pager, 4 nights in a row. Enough, already! And it's a little worse knowing the county doesn't have to pay time and a half. Sigh. Made good use of my time this morning. Besides getting a good start on laundry and changing the tablecloth from Halloween to pre-Thanksgiving, I got a start on sorting the mail piles, reorganized my basement freezer, reorganized my top shelf of spices (throwing out many packages of cookies, etc. that had moldered behind the spices). May be productive again in the afternoon, or maybe not if I feel I've done well just to finish the laundry and mail sort. Damn! I was all set for an afternoon snack of Costco pumpkin pie. I have been keeping it on the ledge outside the back door since temps are cool enough and it is such a large footprint to put in the fridge. When I opened the lid, it was crawling with ants! I truly did not foresee that so late in the year. I figure we each had 3 pieces of pie so we paid about $1/slice for what we ate even if I had to throw out the rest. Oh well, we saved a lot of calories. Making my delicious pumpkin bread finally. Been thinking about it for about 3 weeks. Will take one of the two loaves to the Newman social tomorrow, or at least part of it sliced on a platter. Was thinking the batter was so much stiffer than I remembered and when I put the pans in the oven, I turned around and saw the unopened can of pumpkin on the counter. Was able to pull the batter out, add the pumpkin and water (which made the batter MUCH more like I remember it to be), and get it back in the oven so I hope no harm done. Ooooh, homemade chicken soup is yummy. Used the ginormous carrots from the Farmer's Market, some parsnips, celery, onion, and one of my homegrown leeks, some kale, and a large portion of chicken from a package of cut-up pieces that looked like it had seen enough of the freezer. Soup was very delicious! Slice of pumpkin bread on the side, and I'm baking up the pumpkin croissants I bought at TJ's for dessert. Food: 8:45 am 2 Pumpkin Spice toaster waffles, 1 tsp soft margarine, 1/2 grapefruit, 101 g raspberries, coffee 11:45 am 2 slices cinnamon raisin struan toast, 2 tsp soft margarine, 6 oz light peach yogurt, 1/2 c mulled apple cider 2:45 pm Fun size 3 musketeers 6:15 pm 5 oz Frontenac Rosso wine, bowl homemade chicken soup, small end slice of pumpkin bread 6:45 pm Trader Joe's pumpkin croissant Exercise: 7:05-8:15 pm DWTS DVD