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I got my flu shot on the 8th and am getting my booster on Saturday - my doctor recommended 2 weeks between the shots. I planned it for Saturday as we have Sunday and Monday off, just in case . . .
So far, the only one of my acquaintances who has had problems is the person who had both her flu and booster at the same time - she was down for a few days.

One of my reps was in last Wednesday - there may be a lot of my Christmas stuff I won't get to put on the floor. At this point, I am calling to see what is available and on hand. Many of the vendors are letting us know what is no longer available and that there are no new orders allowed if we want to get it in time. The order I placed with my rep is for Easter!

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The HOA board approved our raised beds on the side of the condo - we will start with one and do winter friendly greens which includes lettuce here.

Some of my neighbors are hoping it works because they'd like to do the same thing.

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Will and our friend Richard cleaned out our plot at the community garden two weeks ago - Will wanted to be out by October 1st as he is leaving town for a couple of weeks tomorrow. We are going to do a test raised bed on the east Side of the condo - not connected to the building and will start with some lettuces and winter greens. Hopefully, we will get enough sun so we can put up two or three more boxes. He has already planned to get netting and stakes to try to prevent poaching from the deer and squirrels.

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Smashburgers on home made buns with salad

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I made KAF’s No knead cheese burger buns for smashburgers tonight. For 1/3 of the AP I substituted in half WWW and sprouted wheat. I made the dough in the Zo. I made 8 buns instead of the usual 6. That was so we could have less dough in each but the same width. Because I had to bake them for less time (the thinness) they didn’t brown very much, but they still look good.

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They are a Massachusetts based company - TJ Maxx and Marshall’s were separate companies, then TJ bought Marshall’s (eons ago) when home decor started being so important they created Home Goods. The Home Goods near my art teacher was connected to a TJ Maxx which was all clothes there.

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If you have a Home Goods nearby, they usually have quite a large food section, especially around the holidays - I always did a lot of Christmas stocking shopping there, but I haven't been inside in two years.

Our COVID infection rate is slowly going down - I think our county average is up to 52% of at least the first shot - still not enough - and then of course we keep getting the influx of tourists.

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I was in Harris Teeter after work today. I checked the pasta shelves and they’re better than they were 6 months ago and that’s at the end of a Saturday when it’s a holiday weekend AND fall break for the Atlanta schools so there are plenty of visitors. We’ve discovered a new store brand (HT is owned by Kroger) it’s called Private Selection and most of its shapes are imported. We usually stock up when it’s on sale.

I had my flu shot yesterday and my booster shot is scheduled in 2 weeks (that’s the spacing my doctor recommends). CVS makes it easy. I had my shots at the health department, but CVS can still give me my booster - it’s 5 minutes from the house.

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When I went in to pick up a disposal at Lowe's back in July (August?), I was surprised how few they had on hand. Fortunately they had the one we needed.

I'm getting ready to replace the windows and slider on my condo (in case I didn't mention, I purchased the one I've been living in for 6 years back in June). My contractor said to expect 4 months. Good thing I'm not in a hurry.

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Put this in the wrong thread - will edit it out when I get home
Last night I made buckwheat crepes for the first time and filled them with sautéed spinach and mushrooms with Jarlsberg for the cheese – it’s a good substitution for gruyere.

Tonight I’m making pasta with chicken sausage, broccoli and red peppers (can you tell what we have on hand?)

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Oops - put in wrong thread. Moved it to week of October 3rd.

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Thank you BakerAunt - it looks really good and easy. I'll definitely try it sometime.

Two nights ago, I grilled chicken that we ate for two days and tonight Will is making sweet potato nachos - a recipe we found on Half Baked Harvest before the pandemic (remember then?) and have adapted - it's a nice easy vegetarian sheet pan dinner.

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FYI, BA - I've been wanting a 12" stainless steel sauté pan and I also want a class lid. The one I'm eyeing is a Cuisinart (all my stainless is Cuisinart that I got almost 40 years ago) because I found it to be less expensive than all the other brands such as Calphalon and All-Clad. It's worth a look.

I grilled chicken sausage to go with the leftovers of our salad. I've realized that I get the best flavor out of the sausage when it's grilled.

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I made a salad which was a mashup of 3 of Ina Garten's recipes. I made maple roasted carrots which would make a fabulous Thanksgiving side. I chopped an apple, toasted some pecans and also added blue cheese and dried cranberries - the base was Bibb lettuce and baby arugula. I ended up using some Newman's balsamic vinaigrette that was in the fridge. I realized most of the items in her salads were too sweet, so I cut out the added orange juice and maple syrup (except for the carrots). I had some deli turkey on the side for protein; Will found other fill-ins.

found an Envy apple from New Zealand on sale at the Market which was nice but nothing that would make me rush out to buy it again. The regular honey crisps were more expensive than the organic ones. Go figure. One problem with living in the far South is there are no apple orchards near by.

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Thanks for doing that BA. I copied the file I have over to my new laptop. I’ll take a look at the folder on Wednesday when I’m off to see if I have any threads that could be added. I’ll also check to see if I gave Zen’s email.

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