Back in NYC

And after a month, this is the floor.

What a huge feeling of relief it was to see the "Welcome to Pennsylvania" sign coming in from Ohio.

Neighbors

Is it weird to know your neighbor by their park parked outside the public library, but not in person?

Coffee and bananas

are an amusing topic when you ostensibly are going to run a locally (bioregionally) sourced cafe in northeast Ohio.

Bananas are also silly cheap when you buy the $1 pre-dumpster produce bags at the supermarket.

Second Xgiving dinner

Delicious second Xgiving dinner. With podcasts. And solitude.

Vegan comfort food

After spending much of the day doing burst pipe flood remediation and cleanup in a friend's house, alone, I needed some food comfort.

Onions, tofu, poblano peppers, garlic.

The best part about this meal: the checker at the Giant Eagle was baffled by the pablano peppers. As if they'd fallen from the sky. Even after I spelled it several possible ways (the shelf tag spells it "pablano".)

Yep. Making that thing.

Insanely delicious hippie slop

No, that is not internally contradictory!

Artichoke hearts, onions, tempeh (how the hell is "tempeh" not in my spacephone's dictionary?!?), Bragg's liquid aminos, with Veganaise (another critical word I just had to teach my phone) and chili garlic sauce. Yum! Even better with the Cheshire Cat watching over it.

It was in the single digits last night, and below zero with windchill. Similar tonight: record low.

Today I boarded the hole in the front door, grabbed a space heater from across the street, tacked plastic sheeting a broken window, and tried to get an update on getting my heat radiators working.

Sigh.

One of the happy notes

This is my kitchen wall.

Flat head screws:

are an invention of satan.

But have I mentioned that I really enjoy working on old houses?