Sunday afternoon post

It's Sunday afternoon, and I am in the swing of a mild, pleasant day. Disorganized thoughts and notes include:

I played some Overwatch 2 and it had that not-unusual effect of irritating me to the point of crankiness, even after I put the controller down. My temper has always been a test for me.

I have been up since about 3:30 a.m. or so. I "layed down" around 5pm feeling a little weathered, and just stuck with it the rest of the night.

Tina is feeling well, having caught a cold from her Brianna during the two visits in two days we saw her. I wasn;t sure I didn't have it, so took it easy. I feel well enough this morning that I may have either not gotten ill or had a delightfully mild case of "it." 

I'll try not to over do things, but the sun came out and I went outside and got a few thousand steps in; I've been terribly lazy lately, and the scale tells the tale! Oy.

Today, I will have the feast I started late yesterday: four kinds of cheese, half a rack of lamb, some carmelized onions I threw together yesterday. There are ingredients for salad. 

Cheese:

* St. Agur, a bold-looking blue from France

* Daff black truffle (brie, I think), French

* Artikaas 18 month Gouda

* Florette goat brie, also French!

Winter Gardening, Lettuce and Bell Pepper

I had one potted plant from this past year's hillside garden, containing one each of decidedly underachieving bell pepper and bean plants. Neither did well during the summer, but the green bell pepper rebounded once the weather cooled. It gets below 40 degrees lately, and the thing is positively perking up on the front deck, with new fruit looking green and vibrant. 

I was so inspired I decided to plant two new plants indoors, in a/the windowsill. I got them both sewed in moist potting soil, and forgot which was the lettuce, and which was the bell pepper. So, I made little markers that stab into the soil out of slices of milk carton, and placed each one in its respective pot, with a 50/50 chance of being correct.

Also, I've been feeding black oil sunflower to the local birds for weeks now. Yesterday I put out some peanuts for the first time, and got a fuzzy new visitor. I do enjoy the wildlife.