Why Am I Craving Pizza?

We had some lovely cooler weather this weekend. I mowed the front yard Saturday while the husband was out on a job with one of our employees, and the the two of us finished working on the yard yesterday afternoon. We’ve had enough rain lately that things were starting to get a bit overgrown. I did some garden cleanup, too, and assessed how things are going.

[Our primary residence sits on five acres and the rental house behind us on two acres, so when I say I cut the front yard, I am talking a goodly amount of square footage. I don’t have a riding mower. One of these days I’ll remember to put the FitBit on my arm and track how far I’m walking when I mow.]

We will have watermelons before too long:

A volunteer calendula popped up through a crack in the black plastic:

I had a whole row of calendula in that spot last year. It’s a nice pop of color out by the tomatoes, which are starting to provide their own color:

That’s an Oregon Star paste tomato. There will be more. Some of those tomato plants are 4’ tall.

Maybe it was all the physical activity, but I was craving pizza the whole weekend. Pizza is the one thing I miss most, having given up eating wheat, although there are some good cauliflower-crust and gluten-free crust pizzas out there. (They are not cheap, however.) And I did not feel like cooking. The Crown Vic police cruiser—DD#2’s old car, which we keep on hand as a backup—needed to be driven, so after we finished yesterday, I took a ride down to the small grocery store south of us and picked up some frozen pizzas. Interestingly, that store had Wheat Montana whole wheat flour, but no unbleached white flour.

I had an Amy’s spinach and tomato pizza for dinner. That itch has been scratched.

I missed seeing my friend, Tera, though, thanks to this goofy 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. sleep schedule I’m currently on. She and her husband stopped by after I had gone to bed and my husband didn’t come wake me up. He did give them a tour of the new shop and their dog got to play with Lila. I hope Tera and I can get together soon.

Needless to say, all that outside work didn’t leave much time for sewing. I picked a wagonload of zucchini and cucumbers yesterday and those will have to be dealt with today. I also unboxed my new meat grinder:

It’s an STX TurboForce II. This model came highly recommended by someone I trust, and I want to try it out this week. I’ll keep you posted.