Seemed like they had to get a little muddy to install the furnace & AC, but it got all done in one day. That night it was venting really loud, though, and the next morning when I was getting back from my walk an MG&E<\/a> vehicle was coming down the street, and now Roto Roooter’s there too. Although that might be for the next over neighbors, who share a driveway.<\/p>\n So, I may never know the whole story – although Mark filled me in on a bunch after he saw our neighbor. Roto Rooter was for them – they had to figure a place for the new furnace to vent, and the floor drain in their basement turned out to be NOT that place. Always something unexpected with old houses.<\/p>\n I started trying to take more pictures of food.<\/p>\n Monday we had hot dogs, sauteed spinach, and potato-poblano gratin<\/a>, that I’ve made often – this time the poblanos were from the Tipi gleaning day in Oct.<\/a>, roasted and frozen till now. It is better with some cream, but I only had milk.<\/p><\/div>\n Tuesday we had breakfast for dinner – spinach & Jarlsberg omelette, and the last of the potato-poblano, and the spinach kugel from Passover. No pics, sorry.<\/p>\n I made a batch of steel cut oats that lasted for three days’ breakfasts. Because of the vagaries of pandemic food procurement, I currently have a larger supply of steel cut oats than rolled. They were cooked in milk, so instead of adding more, I’ve been throwing in a small handful of mixed dried fruit when I re-heat the oats in the micro, and a pat of butter on top.<\/p>\n Wednesday I had an evening online class, so we were each on our own for dinner. I ate the extra hot dog from Monday on an old, slightly freezer-burned roll with a dab of coleslaw. Mark made himself a sandwich on my latest loaf of long-rise bread. And I made gingersnaps and tapioca for us for dessert to eat after class.<\/p>\n Tapioca – the kind that has to soak overnight (or all day, like I did) then cook in a double boiler for an hour – because time is what we have now, right?<\/p><\/div>\n The famous vegan gingersnaps<\/a>. I’ve decided that 2 of them equals one of the big Archway cookies (180 calories) listed in my calorie and exercise app<\/p><\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/drivewaytrench.jpg\")
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