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That squash recipe looks awesome. I usually make mine and add lots of butter and brown sugar, I bet this more savory recipe will be more palatable to my "everything is too sweet " taste buds right now. I would be interested in seeing a snap of the barn painting if you have the time and it isn't already wrapped up tightly for transport. The leaves have already started turning color here. Hope they don't all fall off soon'

We had the first acorn squash of the season from a local farm last night. It was good and did you know you can eat the skin?? I didn't and I've been eating acorn squash my whole life. Here's the recipe. Plus this cooks in 25 minutes versus cooking them in halves.

Today I need go mail my estimated taxes and put the cardboard down in my garden if I'm going to do it. I feel so defeated when I look out there knowing how cool it was when I put it in. Now it's a grassfest with broken cattle panels where a deer got caught inside and was spooked when he couldn't make his way out. Sigh. My thought is to lay down the cardboard and if it doesn't seem plantable next year, I will have it torn down. @#$&ing pandemic! I didn't get here in 2020 and the whole thing went to seed and never recovered.

More good weather. Though the grass anywhere it's not irrigated is brown now. The gallery owner yesterday told me it'll make for a bummer leaf peeper season. The leaves will just fall off and that will be it. Seems a bad storm will do that toon just blow them off. Changing leaves are finicky is seems.

I think that's all for me today. Hope everyone has a good one!

"Dopamine dressing" is a new term for me, so I just went down that rabbit hole.

I like the concept, although I'm not into lots of bright colors in one outfit. In its broader application, I gather it means wearing the colors that make one happy and satisfied. For me, maybe oddly, those colors are navy, black, blue, white, cream, with a splash of anything colorful, which could be a purse, a scarf, jewelry, or even shoes.

In search of pants that fit me, during the last few months I've bought a long black skirt, a long very dark navy skirt, cream trousers, grey trousers, a cream cardigan with dark navy stripes, another pair of (blue, of course) Levis, a blue blouse, a cream blouse, black satin sweatpants (that dress up beautifully with black high heels), and a very dark navy pinstripe pantsuit with an extra long jacket that makes me feel grown up. I haven't bought that many new clothes in a very long time. Some were consignment pieces, and the others were all on sale.

Costco is a pretty wonderful thing.

Re the full moon, yes! Saturday night driving home from a dinner party, it was partly cloudy here, and the drama of scudding clouds and woo-woo moonlight was actually exciting. All it needed was a witch on a broom galloping around up there.