Leftover Night
Oct. 16th, 2020 06:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewdayYesterday, I took my first ride of the day wearing base layer shirt, tee shirt, and joggers and--although it was a bit breezy--was very comfortable.
This morning, it was base layer (top and bottom), lined joggers, tee shirt, mid-weight fleece jacket, windbreaker, and earmuffs. And again, it was breezy but this time with some bite. Much like my second ride yesterday.
However, I was VERY happy to have had those rides, out on the road, given the very changeable weather this time of year. When you've lived your whole life on the windward side of the Great Lakes, you learn to be grateful for whatever the day gives you. Except, maybe, when it's 3 feet of snow, lol.
Tonight is leftover coq au vin night and, I've gotta say, I'm much more flavorably impressed (see what I did there, lol?) than I was last night after I'd spent nearly 3 hours making it.
Of course, flavors typically blend and mellow overnight, in stews and casseroles, and I was totally exhausted from the grossly under-estimated 20-minute prep which had somehow morphed into almost 2 hours. So I was probably not prepared to appreciate much of anything except the 8 hours of sleep which I still didn't get.
Anyway, I'd told rosegardenfae I was gonna whine about it here and so I have--I hope sufficiently to fulfill that promise, lol.
I was gonna get into that a lot more but, hey, I got in my workout, my two bike rides, and got the rattle under the car fixed for, literally, $4.95. (They probably figured I was still, ahem, a bit tender following their much more remunerative encounter with me a week or so earlier.)
And now, all I have to do is put 2 medium plates and 1 soup bowl in the dishwasher, do my evening meds, and put my feet up for the night while reading some newly-acquired "chick lit" from Abbi Waxman--her most recent novel, I Was Told It Would Get Easier.
Hope it does get easier and that everyone has a good night...
LPK
Dreamwidth
10.16.2020
This morning, it was base layer (top and bottom), lined joggers, tee shirt, mid-weight fleece jacket, windbreaker, and earmuffs. And again, it was breezy but this time with some bite. Much like my second ride yesterday.
However, I was VERY happy to have had those rides, out on the road, given the very changeable weather this time of year. When you've lived your whole life on the windward side of the Great Lakes, you learn to be grateful for whatever the day gives you. Except, maybe, when it's 3 feet of snow, lol.
Tonight is leftover coq au vin night and, I've gotta say, I'm much more flavorably impressed (see what I did there, lol?) than I was last night after I'd spent nearly 3 hours making it.
Of course, flavors typically blend and mellow overnight, in stews and casseroles, and I was totally exhausted from the grossly under-estimated 20-minute prep which had somehow morphed into almost 2 hours. So I was probably not prepared to appreciate much of anything except the 8 hours of sleep which I still didn't get.
Anyway, I'd told rosegardenfae I was gonna whine about it here and so I have--I hope sufficiently to fulfill that promise, lol.
I was gonna get into that a lot more but, hey, I got in my workout, my two bike rides, and got the rattle under the car fixed for, literally, $4.95. (They probably figured I was still, ahem, a bit tender following their much more remunerative encounter with me a week or so earlier.)
And now, all I have to do is put 2 medium plates and 1 soup bowl in the dishwasher, do my evening meds, and put my feet up for the night while reading some newly-acquired "chick lit" from Abbi Waxman--her most recent novel, I Was Told It Would Get Easier.
Hope it does get easier and that everyone has a good night...
LPK
Dreamwidth
10.16.2020
