Weekend Wrap-Up

Busy, busy, busy around here! Unfortunately, that means the pumpkin spice dough-nuts will have to wait until next weekend. I did make chocolate peanut butter cookies that were fab. See the recipe here.

My quest for pumpkins, pedestals and cloches only got as far as one grouping but I figure I have time, it’s still only September, right? I got distracted and hit the clearance jackpot at Home Goods…goodbye huge bare wall!
I bought something similar a few months ago but returned the pieces because they just weren’t right, and J was way less than thrilled. This pic has the Spanish colors and feel we love, but in a more streamlined presentation. Also, I found a lovely gray area rug with a pattern very similar to the wood panels. All together we are pretty happy to have some life on that wall, and something soft under out feet. Dream design? Hardly, but it has already made a great improvement.
Then I found these.
They were both on clearance, and one was missing the glass so together they were a great deal. I bought them without really having a place, but I think they’ll stay right where they are.
I can’t end this post without a shout-out to polenta. Creamy, delicious polenta. Sigh. As I mentioned last week, I was going to start a new diet, South Beach. That lasted about as long as it took me to buy a ton of veggies from Trader Joes’. So Saturday we had a very late clean-out-the-fridge meal of grilled pork tenderloin, grilled artichokes with aioli, grilled veggies skewers and blue cheese polenta all drizzled with a balsamic reduction infused with rosemary. This pic doesn’t do the meal justice, but I was too hungry to ’style’ it.. The leftovers (and there are lots!) will be morphed into sandwiches tomorrow. (Back to WW BTW!!)
Today was spent picking my parents up from the airport which was provided a convenient reason to visit our very favorite Mexican restaurant. Tres Hermanes in Sacramento has FABULOUS food, and the mole is to die for. We didn’t eat the rest of the day. Instead we went shopping for tent-trailers. After the bear incident (details later) on our last camping adventure, we want to upgrade without losing the camping spirit. The actual purchase won’t happen for a while, but I want to start researching. Any tips would be appreciated! We have a Honda Pilot so we can only tow RV’s in the 3000 lb. range, and we prefer NOT to have the bathroom/shower. It’s creepy in such a small space.
That’s enough rambling for one evening, time for bed!

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