Halloween Day in the Gate

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Everybody did their celebrating last night as this holiday falls on Sunday this year.  It was pretty quiet.  Everybody was tired after watching saturday baseball, football, basketball and the fabulous RALLY TO RESTORE SANITY AND/OR FEAR.  It has been a wild election season and I'm afraid, just like that baseball brainiac YOGI said, "it's not over til it's over".   Many of the best Tea Party candidates would agree with YOGI that "when you come to a fork in the road...TAKE IT!?"

It was so cold out there this morning that we decided to harvest, blanch and freeze as much rapine as our frozen fingers would allow.  They had lovely little heads on them and will be delicious in December.

We all had some oatmeal for breakfast this morning.  Since no one had any suggestions for anything else that could be construed as breakfast...I just thought of babies and egg pastina, spinach pastina,  weren't they breakfasty?

We're almost done getting the wood in.  (Do people outside of rural areas know what this means?  Felling, chopping, splitting, moving & stacking wood and making kindling to use somewhere inside the home preferably near a wood-burning stove)  Soon we'll be thinking about plans for the spring...
In the meantime, those CSA Veggies are cooking up in a tasty fashion.  It started me thinking that I should make some tempeh to go with those veggies.

What's new for breakfast for the over 60 crowd? Nuttin Honey!

Ahhhh, it's eggs, or cereal.  Forget the bacon.  (and forget the eggs if you believe they raise your cholesterol)  What's left?  CEREAL.
So we have a storm brewing at the house of El Exigente.  Which cereal is most nutritious?
Well, only the cooked cereals really have any nutrition.   Is the healthiest Granola?  Farina? or Oatmeal?
Granola wins for the most calories.  The more home made, the more calories!
Farina wins for the best texture and some say the best taste.
HOWEVER, after a quick search in cyberspace, the answer is:  OATMEAL!

El Exigente loves farina.  He will not be happy.  While, farina is a great source of iron, it is not a whole grain and therefore cannot be as nutritious as a whole grain (like oatmeal).

The rainfall lately has been on the order of deluge.  The good news is that the water table is up and the rivers are roaring.  The not so good news is that basements fill up with water.  OUCH.

On another weather note, since the first snow, the weather has been rather warm.  It was 70 yesterday in Dartmouth NH as we traveled to visit our favorite cardiologist.  Both weather and medical reports were good.  We ended a beautiful day by picking up our first installment of veggies from the LOCAL CSA we joined.  The veggies are MEGA-BEAUTIFUL.

Can the over 60 folks eat veggies for breakfast??  Would you? Could you? DO YOU?


Got an idea or recipe for breakfast veggies...


DO TELL!

Learning all the time...

I guess I still haven't thrown all caution to the wind, though I'm certainly old enough.  You really have to be brazen to learn anything in cyberspace.  Today I finally clicked the comments button. 
I FOUND COMMENTS!  I'm not alone! 
Thanks for the comments.  I will check them from now on.

It's Snowing!

There is snow on the mountains.  It started snowing at about noon.  Big flakes, some tumbling, some streaking, started to make little accumulations on the deck. 
It stopped.
It looks like the sun is pushing those dark snowy clouds away, to lure you out without a coat or hat.  It's too cold out there for that!
Gotta get the rest of the wood in.

Well dog my cats!

Hey there,
Whenever I get a chance to do something to or with this blog...I'm going to, hence the review of a pair of sneakers I bought from online shoes.
These sneakers actually helped me when I had hip surgeries and was asked not to bend forward (as bending forward tends to pop the hip bone out).  Picture yourself getting your shoes on without bending forward!
There is a way.
Have you pictured it?
Hint:  it involves sitting on a bed and getting your foot near your hip so your hip-knee-foot configuration forms a V shape.  Staring at your heel, and assuming you've gotten your sock on, (same position for that), now wiggle that shoe over your toes and onto your foot and VOILA!  Tie it!
OR you could shell out for a pair of Skechers D'Lites--the Tie-less sneakers and STAND while you push into these beautifully designed puppies.  If you've ever done the push-in thing with a pair of loafers in the old days, the heels get mis-shapen and the shoes get ruined...not so with Skechers D'Lites.  The heels keep their shape. 
In conclusion, these sneakers are actually a really good buy.  They cost about $50.00.  The only place I find them is at a site called 'online shoes'.  They ask their customers to rate their purchases so I did.  They also suggested placing my review on my blog by clicking "here".  I did that and magically, my review appeared here as the previous post.  
And that's that story!

My Review

Originally submitted at Onlineshoes.com

Delighted with D'Lites!

By supermoo87q from Vermont on 10/18/2010

 

5out of 5

Pros: No more laces to tie

Cons: Sizes do not include WIDE

Best Uses: Every day

These are the ONLY sneakers you don't have to tie! The heels do not get pushed in or down. They last and last and look like everyone else's sneakers...but better!

(legalese)

HELLO, again

It seems like years since I've been here.  Summer took a long time turning into Fall.  Fall has become the shortest season, too short to talk about.  Lots of company has come and gone.  We're making ready for Winter and planning for next spring...

Sandgate Sunflowers and Gigi's Chipmunk are pictured here to assuage any feelings of disappointment at winter's approach.