Daily Notes- Sigh. Stopped watching News and TV altogether. Too disturbing and or boring.

 Sofrito.   A saute of finely chopped (cubed in my case) onion, celery and carrot) in some good olive oil. You could add garlic.  I do not.  I do not like the smell of it on/in my body.  I then added a can of Italian Mutti "finely diced" tomatoes- almost a mush but you could see the tiny dice if you looked closely.  Let that simmer slowly while the water came to the boil.

I actually allowed the vegetable to cook long and slow before adding the tomato.  I wasn't impatient.  And I timed the pasta to be "to the tooth" rather than fully cooked. It was a very very lovely meal.  With leftovers.  The sauce was sweet. Stanley Tucci and his mother made this dish while visiting Rome for CNN.  Yesterday..I made it like he and his mom made it- with love.

All my roses are in bloom right now.  The pale pink ones- photo tomorrow are quite lovely and very fragrant.  Usually the Japanese Beetles eat them.

DQ yesterday.  I got the Hot Fudge Sundae. It wasn't too hot or even too warm yesterday so the ice cream didn't melt.  It was wonderful.  There was some seriously bad parking in the DQ lot so that was entertaining as were the clothing choices of the unmasked.  I am guessing they also sleep in what they were wearing.  Maine isn't all that "fashion conscious" but my shirt did not match my pants so husband refused to allow me to get out of the car.

I am having some trouble transitioning from Winter to Summer clothing.  I have Winter down- pants, thermal tee and sweater..  I don't do good with Summer.  Too many choices in the closet for warm weather. Dozens of linen shirts in all kinds of colors.  All sorts of colored (patterned) capri (not apricot pants as auto correct wanted) pants. Apricot Pants.  Interesting.

Reading Soulmate Equation.  About a spit in a tube computer dating program.  And two people who test out at a 98% match.  But don't actually like each other.  Until they like each other way too much and too often.......... Christina Lauren.  Two friends who write books together.  The Unhoneymooners and Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating are two of my favorites by this duo.  One of the friend characters writes steamy romances and she takes down the conversations these two (dating) people have for her next book.  I finished it last night and turned to page one immediately to start over.