Doug's Project 365

Brand new Commuter Rail car, that is.  This evening I got to ride car #815, which I believe has been in service for less than a week.

New shoelaces. Not noteworthy, perhaps, for anyone but the wearer.

For some reason, the city tore up & re-set the storm drain in front of our house today. Maybe they’ll fix the asphalt before winter.

(My apolologies for this showing up out-of-order — I forgot to post it on Tuesday.)

I mail-ordered a new pan for myself, which came today, inside 3 boxes and a paper bag.  Seems somewhat excessive. At least there were no packing peanuts.

We went on a tour of the Taza chocolate factory today — see Lis’s and Kat’s 365 posts as well.  This is one of the granite stones they use to grind the cacao beans.

 
Bonus picture: the cacao beans for every Taza chocolate bar ever sold were roasted in this one small roaster.

I went to China Fair today — a great place to stock up on everyday plates/glasses/etc. What I didn’t realize until I looked at this picture is that I accidentally bought levitating anti-gravity snack plates!

 
(no, not really. It’s some trick of the light in this photo.)

The forecast for today on Sunday, when we did our weekly menu, called for this evening to be rainy and cold.  So we planned ham/bean/kale soup. It’s actually the opposite of rainy and cold this evening, so we changed plans (steak on the grill), but I had gotten out all the soup ingredients already so I went ahead and made the soup anyway, to freeze for another day.

A year later, and I still really like how the little cafe corner in the new kitchen turned out.  We’ve been eating out on the porch all summer, but we’ll be back in here soon enough.

Lis took me out for an awesome birthday dinner tonight (I had the osso bucco), at which I totally forgot to take any pictures. But the desserts we have at the house are far better than what the restaurant had to offer.