Weather: a known flip-flopper
It’s a commonplace that the weather changes quickly around here – completely one thing one day, completely another the next. So, Friday was coldish (45) and sunny and I had the nicest cold-weather ride I can remember; yesterday was 20 degrees warmer, vastly wetter, and just miserable. Mushrooms and mold everywhere, though a good day for digging a new garden. On the plus side, I made an excellent squash soup.
The weekends are now a blur of Nutcracker rehearsals, random yardwork, and old movies on the DVR. With a stored assortment of black and white horror classics like “Cat People” and “I Walked with a Zombie” courtesy of TCM, the only thing we could agree to watch last night was “D.O.A.,” what with its “soft in the belly” and its “luminous toxin poisoning” and its desperately needy Paula. Still a fun romp, but the “reporting your own murder” angle seems a little thin now.
I made a similar soup this evening, using an old recipe from Martha Stewart Living, only it’s got apples in addition to squash. There were some baby carrots going bad in the fridge and I threw them in. Yum! The spices are what really make it interesting, though.