Daily Notes- January 22

Not sure, looking at it, what the focus here was.  And that happens a lot with me.  I get carried away with the colors and fabrics and "loose the thread" as the Brits say.  That fabric with the text--was decorator fabric and I loved using it.  Others wrote on the fabrics themselves.  This was in French, so of course.......

We had Sunday's Football Pizza last night.  It got a bit dark across the top and I wondered if it would be good--but the char seemed to do wonders for the pie.  The pepperoni was quite spicy.  I never know when buying it.  How it is seasoned.  But it's dry cured and very nice after all the years I have been making pizza with it.  My Christmas gift new pizza cutter is very sharp and did a fantastic job.
I make a simple pie with the pepperoni, a sliced onion and cheese.

Yesterday was freezing cold (-20 with wind chill) but Thursday it's supposed to be 45 to 50 degrees with rain.  Goodby snow and hello slush.

Reading Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye.  A man's wife is killed by a tree falling on the sunroom where she is working.  And then she comes back from the dead a year later.  I don't know why as yet.  Neither the husband or wife seems that appealing.  People can see her.  I'm giving the book another hour (maybe less) and then will decide whether to continue.   Tyler is spending considerable time on physical description of the characters who are not attractive.  Why?  Perhaps the husband should have just gone into the kitchen to find the Triscuits.

I never made it into the sewing room.  I did wash the three sweaters and they are dry and "bouncy" this morning.  Something about the Trader Joes Refresh Body Wash with citrus makes the cashmere clean and alive.  The wash in the largest bowl I have (in the sink) made the water a very cloudy brown as usual.  I rinsed twice and a third time on the one I wear most often.  Then I roll each sweater into a clean bath towel and stand on the roll to remove as much water as possible.  Then drape over the drying rack to dry.

I do want to venture out into the World today--I would like to purchase a new iron that will actually make steam.  Not another Rowenta. I have two of those in the sewing room--one won't heat up and the other heats up but won't make steam.  Last Winter both of them worked perfectly.  And perhaps the store with the irons will also have vegetable broth cubes?  The store is like the Everything Bagel. Anne Tyler should write a book about it.  The Everything Store.