Oh man, what time is it? That is going to be the theme of the day. A day to adjust new real time with what body time (like food and sleep schedule ) wants it to be. It confuses me and I end up either really hungry or falling asleep at 5pm. Lose an hour, but gain some light at night. I guess I need to enjoy it (even if I am enjoying it from my bed, ha) because it means we are heading for spring!!!!!
This week had been a week, a week of crazy dreams, lots of warm soup, the last bits of super cold weather (I am hoping) and this and thats and what nots. We took a little hike, got the car inspected and washed, and spent time trying to better ourselves of any illness by hanging low and getting good amounts of sleep. I worked a bit at the studio, started the taxes (I am behind, I know) which I don%u2019t really want to so I procrastinate whenever I can and make pierogi. The mr is preparing and starting a few projects that involve porch ripping apart and the such. Lots of outdoor work. Spring is a coming and things are going to get hectic around here fast. A good thing? Not sure yet. We are both going a little crazy right now so having some projects to do is going to be good. And we are running away%u2026 Hahaha.
Yesterday we grabbed Barb, Judah, and Coco and headed out onto the lake. Super gorgeous day. Warm and bright and all the right things that we have needed. We walked out to the lighthouse, Coco slipped and fell once. Barb slammed her ass really hard and took me down with her too. The mr and Judah managed to not fall. They are more graceful then us.. And after the ice capades we brought them all home and I came home to make lists of all the spring cleaning projects that I plan on tackling this week. Gonna wash all the windows and maybe do some touch up painting%u2026. But I might be getting ahead of myself. We shall see.
Today, besides being slightly confused by the light and when I get hungry, I am hoping to get some seeds started, pull some handles for a bunch of tumblers that I think should have handles (I think.. maybe. Still thinking about it), drink lots and lots of coffee and tea while reading, and do a bunch of laundry. I want to wash all of my winter outwear except maybe a single hat and a pair of mittens (I have many hats and mittens and scarfs and hoodie sweaters%u2026 there is a lot) and then pack it all away! I might even stick the winter boots back I the closet. Is that tempting the snow gods. Are we going get another big snow storm? Maybe, but I don%u2019t care. I am sick of it, I don%u2019t want to look (or smell%u2026 its is starting to smell funky) at any of it anymore. There is going to be 40, maybe even 50 degree weather all next week so you know what that means%u2026Good bye boots, hello CHACOS! I am pulling my sandals out and leaving them by the door. My feet are so EXCITED!
Books, coffee,,seeds and sandals. What else are Sundays for?
Here again are some internet links to read if you want.
–The People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day. I am one of these people. Pretty much same meals everyday, give or take a few this or thats. And I can honestly say that I look forward to my meals every single day because I basically eat a little bit of every vegetable the I have (the veggies change with seasons) , lots of greens (greens also vary) and lentils and or beans. SO GOOD!
-Love. An Old Victorian House Is Incredibly Bright, Cheery, and Colorful
–Why do we hate decaf so much? Well because it sucks, thats why.
-Martha knows where the money is at. Martha Stewart partnering with marijuana grower Canopy Growth to develop hemp-derived products
-The need for a wood stove is very real.
-The human brain is pretty freaking spectacular. Human memory: How we make, remember, and forget memories
-Tomatoes and peppers are getting started today! STARTING SEEDS INDOORS%u00a0WHEN TO START SEEDS INDOORS
–Exercise Is Mood Sorcery. Yes, yes it is.
–Baby Cheese Challenge Sets the Internet Ablaze. All of a sudden I am hearing about this all over the news and radio. What the%u2026%u2026If you throw cheese at your baby, don%u2019t stick it on the internet. Duh.
-I wonder if people stopped looking up why they can%u2019t sleep on the internet, they might actually be able to sleep. Hum..We%u2019re too damn exhausted to do anything about lack of sleep
Some pictures from the week
Hey hello there.%u00a0How’s it going? Hopefully all is good and well. Maybe you got some crazy snow or some nasty wind (because March and that is what March does) but the bomb cyclone should be over now and we can get back to spring. We all need.a good spring.%u00a0
The week came and went. A family dinner, weird little odds and ends got done, a walk and a hanging out with the littles at the lake where we saw a kid run out onto the ice, fall in, run back out and laugh it off. (I was a bit shocked but all the littles could talk about was how the kid had a British accent. Didn’t faze them that he just fell into freezing water). Besides that, nothing really out of the norm happened other then I did turn the heat off in the house for a few days (it has sense been turned back on). I also managed to clean the back porch and the car out and the mr and I were able to have an outdoor picnic lunch. Those warm days were really something special. When it got cold again, which it kinda did, (I got really cold because a little cold makes me colder then really really cold) I stayed inside and watched Ugly Delicious which is so so good and you all should watch it too. Oh, an I have pretty much stopped looking and using my phone because life is nice without it.%u00a0
Sunday Funday and today I want to have some fun. What the initials I have yet to figure out, but it will be done. (board games on the back porch? Maybe a really cold bike ride?)%u00a0And then I will probably drink lots of coffee and watch a few more episode or %u00a0Ugly Delicious because once you start watching,%u00a0you really can’t stop.%u00a0
Internet on the internet from the week.
-How many different salts do you have? I have these 4.%u00a0%u00a0Here%u2019s How to Use Salts With Flair (&%u00a0Confidence!)
-The mr and I have thrown the idea of green roofs around for years now. Maybe one day we will actually do it.%u00a0Grow a Green Roof
-A Dreamy A-Frame Cabin in the Forests of the Pacific Northwest. This should be mine.
-I drink a lot of water and started to wonder if I was drinking too much water.%u00a0Ask Well: Can You Drink Too Much Water?
-Lost Art Of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines%u00a0I now am very conscious of how I am bending my body.%u00a0
-I have actually seen this but never knew it had a name or that is was a Vermont thing.%u00a0A Crash Course In Vermont’s Head-Turning, Homegrown Sport
–High Mowing Seed Catalog… I want so many seeds! Got to get on it soon too because we are going to start seedling in the next 2 weeks!!!!!
-Spring and dandelions soon.%u00a0How to Make Dandelion Jelly: Cooking With Weeds
–The Rise and Fall of the Once Beloved Sunken Living Room. Ill tell you one good reason sunken rooms are no-good….they are dirt and dust traps.%u00a0
-Handmade love.%u00a0CERAMICS, A LOVE STORY.
Some pictures from the week.%u00a0
Yesterday I spent the entire day (ok maybe not the entire day), but a the better part of the afternoon defrosting my freezer. Sure, I do the occasional chip chop here and there, just enough from around the freezer door so it will close, but ever few months I notice that everything in the fridge is not staying cold and that the freezer is not freezing stuff. Thats when I know its for real time to defrost. So a few days ago when I noticed my bananas were turing to liquid in the freezer, I knew it what I had to do%u2026.Completely empty the fridge %u00a0and melt/hack away the 2-4 inches of ice build up that accumulated. It is such a freaking pain in the ass.So on this defrosting day, I took all the stuff from the freezer, stuck it in a cooler, and the rest of the stuff, which is basically all veggies, I just tossed on the table.%u00a0As I am hacking away with a metal spatual, a wooden spoon, and a constant rotation of pots of boiling water, I was thinking about dinner. I figured I might as well just eat up as much of the veggies as I could, you know, so I didn’t have to put them back in the fridge. And also, I was getting pretty annoyed because this particular defrosting session was taking way longer the anticipated, which made making dinner seem like another pain in the ass. %u00a0I figured I might as well just eat everything that is already out on the table, which pretty much narrowed down the “whats for dinner” conversations because it was already all over the place. And so dinner was a humongo salad for me, and for the mister, I made him a monster of a veggie sandwich. (my salad was exactly the same stuff as the sandwich, minus the bagel) Easy, fast, super duper yummy, pretty and piled so high with tons of veggies that the fridge is pretty much empty now.%u00a0
Look at the is beast. I don’t call it a monster sandwich for nothing.
The stuff included in this monster veggie sandwich..
Romaine lettuce, tomato, avocado for there is not real sandwich without them. Thinly sliced radishes, cucumber,a and onion for nice crispy crunch. Shredded beets, carrots, and purple cabbage to give %u00a0more crunch and a bit of sweetness. Then of course there needs to be something pickled, so I used banana peppers cause they are the SHIT!! And lastly some hummus for a nice creamy finish (plus a bit of protein) and yellow mustard because mustard on everything is just right. %u00a0Heres to a mountain if goodness that is no longer in the fridge! Served with a another mountain of roasted parsnips and carrots (more stuff from the fridge) and a tall glass of iced tea.
Lucky that today is farm share pick up cause the fridge is pretty much on empty.%u00a0
Yea it’s Thursday!!!!
-C
A Monster Veggie Sandwich
Note. This is just a guide.. Feel free to use whatever veggies you fancy.%u00a0
Either a bagel, 2 slices of bread, or a big chunk of baguette (use a gluten free bread if you want or need too)
Hummus- Homemade or store bought
Mustard
Something pickled like pickles, banana peppers , jalape%u00f1os or all three%u00a0
Lettuce, spinach or some kind of leafy green
Tomato
Avocado
Onion
Radishes
Cucumber
Shredded Carrots
Shredded Beets
Shredded Cabbage
To assemble. Ready your bread.. Toast if you want, and stick it on a plate
On either side, smear the hummus and the mustard. %u00a0
Pick a side, start to stack by evenly disrupting veggies on top of veggies. Place the second piece of bread on top and %u00a0giving a little smooth to keep it together.
And go at it. Cut in half or don’t. Have a napkin or a long sleeve ready to wipe your face.
The past week has been pack full of everything.. Birthdays (3 nephews within the week), Christmas, family family family%u2026..Its a lot, but its been great. Not going to lie, I am ready for a little quite time, maybe a nice long day of locked doors and dead phones%u2026.we will see. But anyway, here are a few little bits of happy that I managed to snap photos of(I have been slack on picture taking this week)This is an amazing book, full of pictures and information about 123 different varieties of apples%u2026.I am so excited to read it! My love got it for me for Christmas%u2026.So nice, so sweet. Its been a weird weather week..warm and gray.. This touch of blue really stood out.I found my favorite rag wool socks (Hooray!!!!).. and wore them all week.(don’t judge)
Ice Skating!!! One of my nephews was born on Christmas so we always do a skating %u00a0party at the ice rink on Christmas eve%u2026%u2026%u2026.another of %u00a0my favorite family traditions%u2026Always a super blast. Here my sister and nick were giving this little her first ever skating lessons. All I can say is good thing she was wearing a helmet.
%u00a0Another gift from the mister%u2026a weck juice jar%u2026%u2026If you know me or are getting to know me, you will know that I am jar obsessed and weck jars are some of my favorite. I eat, drink, store everything in jars. This beauty is destined for tea and or coffee.
I am not saying this because he is my lover, but Nick is an amazing artist. He has really gotten into using spray paint and has been doing some really awesome large scale images(nothing illegal%u2026%u2026.yet!!) He did this whale a few days ago.. I am always blown away at he talent.
Popcorn drizzled in melted peanut butter%u2026.. WHOA!!!!! I also like to add garlic salt and chunks of fresh apple. It is the best most fantastic movie snack ever%u2026%u2026%u2026Maybe I’ll share with you sometime.An early morning walk with the pup to the waterfront%u2026We watched the sun come up…I am so lucky to live in such a beautiful place.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday.. eating some good food, relaxing, spending time with loved ones. So soon it will be 2015(Holly f***!!) Lets get ready!!!!!
THE LOVELY CRAZY
September 18, 2019 by maximios • Blog
Oh man, what time is it? That is going to be the theme of the day. A day to adjust new real time with what body time (like food and sleep schedule ) wants it to be. It confuses me and I end up either really hungry or falling asleep at 5pm. Lose an hour, but gain some light at night. I guess I need to enjoy it (even if I am enjoying it from my bed, ha) because it means we are heading for spring!!!!!
This week had been a week, a week of crazy dreams, lots of warm soup, the last bits of super cold weather (I am hoping) and this and thats and what nots. We took a little hike, got the car inspected and washed, and spent time trying to better ourselves of any illness by hanging low and getting good amounts of sleep. I worked a bit at the studio, started the taxes (I am behind, I know) which I don%u2019t really want to so I procrastinate whenever I can and make pierogi. The mr is preparing and starting a few projects that involve porch ripping apart and the such. Lots of outdoor work. Spring is a coming and things are going to get hectic around here fast. A good thing? Not sure yet. We are both going a little crazy right now so having some projects to do is going to be good. And we are running away%u2026 Hahaha.
Yesterday we grabbed Barb, Judah, and Coco and headed out onto the lake. Super gorgeous day. Warm and bright and all the right things that we have needed. We walked out to the lighthouse, Coco slipped and fell once. Barb slammed her ass really hard and took me down with her too. The mr and Judah managed to not fall. They are more graceful then us.. And after the ice capades we brought them all home and I came home to make lists of all the spring cleaning projects that I plan on tackling this week. Gonna wash all the windows and maybe do some touch up painting%u2026. But I might be getting ahead of myself. We shall see.
Today, besides being slightly confused by the light and when I get hungry, I am hoping to get some seeds started, pull some handles for a bunch of tumblers that I think should have handles (I think.. maybe. Still thinking about it), drink lots and lots of coffee and tea while reading, and do a bunch of laundry. I want to wash all of my winter outwear except maybe a single hat and a pair of mittens (I have many hats and mittens and scarfs and hoodie sweaters%u2026 there is a lot) and then pack it all away! I might even stick the winter boots back I the closet. Is that tempting the snow gods. Are we going get another big snow storm? Maybe, but I don%u2019t care. I am sick of it, I don%u2019t want to look (or smell%u2026 its is starting to smell funky) at any of it anymore. There is going to be 40, maybe even 50 degree weather all next week so you know what that means%u2026Good bye boots, hello CHACOS! I am pulling my sandals out and leaving them by the door. My feet are so EXCITED!
Books, coffee,,seeds and sandals. What else are Sundays for?
Here again are some internet links to read if you want.
–The People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day. I am one of these people. Pretty much same meals everyday, give or take a few this or thats. And I can honestly say that I look forward to my meals every single day because I basically eat a little bit of every vegetable the I have (the veggies change with seasons) , lots of greens (greens also vary) and lentils and or beans. SO GOOD!
-Love. An Old Victorian House Is Incredibly Bright, Cheery, and Colorful
–Why do we hate decaf so much? Well because it sucks, thats why.
-Martha knows where the money is at. Martha Stewart partnering with marijuana grower Canopy Growth to develop hemp-derived products
-The need for a wood stove is very real.
-The human brain is pretty freaking spectacular. Human memory: How we make, remember, and forget memories
-Tomatoes and peppers are getting started today! STARTING SEEDS INDOORS%u00a0WHEN TO START SEEDS INDOORS
–Exercise Is Mood Sorcery. Yes, yes it is.
–Baby Cheese Challenge Sets the Internet Ablaze. All of a sudden I am hearing about this all over the news and radio. What the%u2026%u2026If you throw cheese at your baby, don%u2019t stick it on the internet. Duh.
-I wonder if people stopped looking up why they can%u2019t sleep on the internet, they might actually be able to sleep. Hum..We%u2019re too damn exhausted to do anything about lack of sleep
Some pictures from the week
Hey hello there.%u00a0How’s it going? Hopefully all is good and well. Maybe you got some crazy snow or some nasty wind (because March and that is what March does) but the bomb cyclone should be over now and we can get back to spring. We all need.a good spring.%u00a0
The week came and went. A family dinner, weird little odds and ends got done, a walk and a hanging out with the littles at the lake where we saw a kid run out onto the ice, fall in, run back out and laugh it off. (I was a bit shocked but all the littles could talk about was how the kid had a British accent. Didn’t faze them that he just fell into freezing water). Besides that, nothing really out of the norm happened other then I did turn the heat off in the house for a few days (it has sense been turned back on). I also managed to clean the back porch and the car out and the mr and I were able to have an outdoor picnic lunch. Those warm days were really something special. When it got cold again, which it kinda did, (I got really cold because a little cold makes me colder then really really cold) I stayed inside and watched Ugly Delicious which is so so good and you all should watch it too. Oh, an I have pretty much stopped looking and using my phone because life is nice without it.%u00a0
Sunday Funday and today I want to have some fun. What the initials I have yet to figure out, but it will be done. (board games on the back porch? Maybe a really cold bike ride?)%u00a0And then I will probably drink lots of coffee and watch a few more episode or %u00a0Ugly Delicious because once you start watching,%u00a0you really can’t stop.%u00a0
Internet on the internet from the week.
-How many different salts do you have? I have these 4.%u00a0%u00a0Here%u2019s How to Use Salts With Flair (&%u00a0Confidence!)
-The mr and I have thrown the idea of green roofs around for years now. Maybe one day we will actually do it.%u00a0Grow a Green Roof
-A Dreamy A-Frame Cabin in the Forests of the Pacific Northwest. This should be mine.
-I drink a lot of water and started to wonder if I was drinking too much water.%u00a0Ask Well: Can You Drink Too Much Water?
-Lost Art Of Bending Over: How Other Cultures Spare Their Spines%u00a0I now am very conscious of how I am bending my body.%u00a0
-I have actually seen this but never knew it had a name or that is was a Vermont thing.%u00a0A Crash Course In Vermont’s Head-Turning, Homegrown Sport
–High Mowing Seed Catalog… I want so many seeds! Got to get on it soon too because we are going to start seedling in the next 2 weeks!!!!!
-Spring and dandelions soon.%u00a0How to Make Dandelion Jelly: Cooking With Weeds
–The Rise and Fall of the Once Beloved Sunken Living Room. Ill tell you one good reason sunken rooms are no-good….they are dirt and dust traps.%u00a0
-Handmade love.%u00a0CERAMICS, A LOVE STORY.
Some pictures from the week.%u00a0
Yesterday I spent the entire day (ok maybe not the entire day), but a the better part of the afternoon defrosting my freezer. Sure, I do the occasional chip chop here and there, just enough from around the freezer door so it will close, but ever few months I notice that everything in the fridge is not staying cold and that the freezer is not freezing stuff. Thats when I know its for real time to defrost. So a few days ago when I noticed my bananas were turing to liquid in the freezer, I knew it what I had to do%u2026.Completely empty the fridge %u00a0and melt/hack away the 2-4 inches of ice build up that accumulated. It is such a freaking pain in the ass.So on this defrosting day, I took all the stuff from the freezer, stuck it in a cooler, and the rest of the stuff, which is basically all veggies, I just tossed on the table.%u00a0As I am hacking away with a metal spatual, a wooden spoon, and a constant rotation of pots of boiling water, I was thinking about dinner. I figured I might as well just eat up as much of the veggies as I could, you know, so I didn’t have to put them back in the fridge. And also, I was getting pretty annoyed because this particular defrosting session was taking way longer the anticipated, which made making dinner seem like another pain in the ass. %u00a0I figured I might as well just eat everything that is already out on the table, which pretty much narrowed down the “whats for dinner” conversations because it was already all over the place. And so dinner was a humongo salad for me, and for the mister, I made him a monster of a veggie sandwich. (my salad was exactly the same stuff as the sandwich, minus the bagel) Easy, fast, super duper yummy, pretty and piled so high with tons of veggies that the fridge is pretty much empty now.%u00a0
Look at the is beast. I don’t call it a monster sandwich for nothing.
The stuff included in this monster veggie sandwich..
Romaine lettuce, tomato, avocado for there is not real sandwich without them. Thinly sliced radishes, cucumber,a and onion for nice crispy crunch. Shredded beets, carrots, and purple cabbage to give %u00a0more crunch and a bit of sweetness. Then of course there needs to be something pickled, so I used banana peppers cause they are the SHIT!! And lastly some hummus for a nice creamy finish (plus a bit of protein) and yellow mustard because mustard on everything is just right. %u00a0Heres to a mountain if goodness that is no longer in the fridge! Served with a another mountain of roasted parsnips and carrots (more stuff from the fridge) and a tall glass of iced tea.
Lucky that today is farm share pick up cause the fridge is pretty much on empty.%u00a0
Yea it’s Thursday!!!!
-C
A Monster Veggie Sandwich
Note. This is just a guide.. Feel free to use whatever veggies you fancy.%u00a0
To assemble. Ready your bread.. Toast if you want, and stick it on a plate
On either side, smear the hummus and the mustard. %u00a0
Pick a side, start to stack by evenly disrupting veggies on top of veggies. Place the second piece of bread on top and %u00a0giving a little smooth to keep it together.
And go at it. Cut in half or don’t. Have a napkin or a long sleeve ready to wipe your face.
The past week has been pack full of everything.. Birthdays (3 nephews within the week), Christmas, family family family%u2026..Its a lot, but its been great. Not going to lie, I am ready for a little quite time, maybe a nice long day of locked doors and dead phones%u2026.we will see. But anyway, here are a few little bits of happy that I managed to snap photos of(I have been slack on picture taking this week)
This is an amazing book, full of pictures and information about 123 different varieties of apples%u2026.I am so excited to read it! My love got it for me for Christmas%u2026.So nice, so sweet. 
Its been a weird weather week..warm and gray.. This touch of blue really stood out.
I found my favorite rag wool socks (Hooray!!!!).. and wore them all week.(don’t judge)
I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday.. eating some good food, relaxing, spending time with loved ones. So soon it will be 2015(Holly f***!!) Lets get ready!!!!!
Have a Happy Week!!!!