{"id":10630,"date":"2024-01-30T05:15:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T10:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=10630"},"modified":"2024-01-30T00:04:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T05:04:26","slug":"tues-jan-30-2024-cookies-will-brighten-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/01\/30\/tues-jan-30-2024-cookies-will-brighten-your-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tues. Jan. 30, 2024 &#8211; Cookies will brighten your day&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cool to cold-ish again, then warming with the sun&#8230; like yesterday.  It was pretty chilly at the bus stop, watching my breath condense, but the driver was on time and I was back in the warm house lickety-split.  And isn&#8217;t that a strange turn of phrase?   It did warm up as the day went on, until I was in shorts and a t-shirt in the afternoon.  I&#8217;m hoping today is the same- cool enough to work in the attic, and to strain, but not so cool I need extra layers.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the day getting caught up on some auction stuff, knowing I had to get both kids from after school activities within 15 minutes of each other&#8230; Stayed close to home and didn&#8217;t get into any involved projects.  <\/p>\n<p>Dinner was my biggest project.   I found the freezer door slightly open, and a pork roast pretty much thawed out&#8230;  The rest of the freezer was still rock hard, so that was a plus.  It meant cooking the roast pretty soon though, and yesterday was one day later.  It was delicious.  I made sauteed cabbage and onion, and honeyed baby carrots, with naan bread on the side.   Which got me thinking about this year&#8217;s garden.  Cabbage.  Onions.  Carrots.  Collards.  Turnips.  Beets.  Potatoes.  Staples that last all winter.   I hope they will grow in my soil.  I personally only had luck with the beets and carrots and collards in the past.  I&#8217;ll run it past my neighbor, and see what he thinks.  Tomatoes and peas are nice, but will they feed your family in January?  Put some thought into it.  <\/p>\n<p>And then stack some cans in case the deer, or the neighbors, or the weather, or the pests get your garden.<\/p>\n<p>Today is more of the same.  I&#8217;m really trying to organize and move stuff to get ready for cookie season.  Selling it would be good too, but moving it has to happen.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at prices and availability of ammo at my local sporting goods store.  They  had a lot in stock.  I&#8217;m swinging by there later today, as I didn&#8217;t get to it yesterday.   Hope I beat the rush.  Some of the online sellers have stock too, check the usual suspects.  There are always shortages and panics, but really, can you say that you have enough?<\/p>\n<p>Stacks.  Lots of stacks.<\/p>\n<p>nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool to cold-ish again, then warming with the sun&#8230; like yesterday.  It was pretty chilly at the bus stop, watching my breath condense, but the driver was on time and I was back in the warm house lickety-split.  And isn&#8217;t that a strange turn of phrase?   It did warm up as the day went on, until I was in shorts and a t-shirt in the afternoon.  I&#8217;m hoping today is the same- cool enough to work in the attic,<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2024\/01\/30\/tues-jan-30-2024-cookies-will-brighten-your-day\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Tues. Jan. 30, 2024 &#8211; Cookies will brighten your day&#8230; &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,15,83,56,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cookingbaking","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-gardening","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10631,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10630\/revisions\/10631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}