For last night’s supper I made this Instant Pot Butternut Squash Soup using two pounds of the cushaw squash I roasted on Sunday. The soup tasted great, and I still have an ample amount for leftovers.
Let’s talk real estate. No, not the selling of houses, but rather to opening of businesses. Recently I heard that the Atlanta is getting its first Tim Horton’s. On Monday while driving up Cobb Parkway I saw the development of what I thought might be Georgia’s first Whataburger (I’m wrong about this, but there aren’t many). And finally, why the hell are banks buying property and opening new branches? Okay the answer is always “money”, but in very recent years I have seen a number of banks knock down a business in order to build a new branch. Other than me (who has to go inside a bank once a month until the sale of my mother’s house), goes to physical bank branches?
Wordle: five, my starter was CRAFT
Connections: perfect, Blue > Green > Yellow > Purple (I predict a lot of hate toward Connections today)
I’ve been awake since 4:30. I am going to need a good nap sometime today.
Wordle in 3 staring with TIRED. Staying up too late. So I’m a little tired. lol
2 mistakes in Connections. Purple, Yellow, Green Blue.
Not much to report. On Island time. Beautiful sunrises and empty beaches. Probably going to hit up the new brewery in East Point.
Well done, Sal.
New brewery in East Point? Wow, I am completely off my game. I have heard of all of the brewery closings, but none of their openings. Off to investigate…
East Point FL
Oh, that’s very different. LOL
Related, I had no idea where St George Island is; I assumed it was on the east coast of Georgia, kinda near Savannah. #geographically_ignorant
I guess since I’ve been to St George, I know where it is. Its a sleepy place, but we used to go with some of the Parrotheads for a charity chili cookoff weekend – we manufactured our own fun.
LOL, I knew which East Point Sal meant.
How Florida managed to claim the gulf coast and screw Alabama and Mississippi will always baffle me.
Google not helping. Can you spill the beans on this brewery’s name?
East Point Beer Company. Will probably go to Oyster City too!
Wordle in 3, Connections with one error.
Whataburger has been open in Newnan for months, so that’s not new. I think I saw a sign for Tim Hortons going up across North Ave from the V last week (and was a little surprised.)
A good 40 minute ride last night. Thought about going for a run, but was a little late getting home. The workout seemed a little easy when I did it, but my legs are feeling it this morning, so maybe it was harder than I thought, or maybe it was a couple sprints I put in in the end.
Our unit is going out for holiday lunch today. Likely to Taco Mac.
-FP
Well, I did admit to being wrong about Whataburger. 🙂
I intended to get on the trainer yesterday but it never happened. I will today, most like this morning since it’s cold outside.
Whoa! An ITP Tim Horton’s? Inconceivable!
Yep. If I understand correctly it’s in / next to the BP on North Avenue? Steve, is that right?
Correct. There are lots of Canadians at GT? That really does seem like an odd spot.
Isn’t The Varsity (still) the highest grossing single fast food location in the country? If so, seems logical to me for another business to try and get in on some of that action.
what’s so exciting about Tim Horton’s? Isn’t it Canada’s equivalent of IHOP or someplace like that?
Coffee and donuts, more like Canada’s Dunkin’ Donuts.
Yes, and the Canadians are CRAZY about Tim Horton, just as much as we Massholes are obsessed with Dunkies.
I cannot wrap my head around Dunkin. Give me Starbucks or give me death. 😉 I mean seriously, I cannot remember getting friendly or good service EVER at a Dunkin. Once their app let me place an order from a store that was closed. I mean seriously, it was last year, not back in the 80s. Fuckers.
Received a nice sympathy card from one of my childhood best friends, Allison. She now lives on the east coast of Florida, and though I haven’t seen her in 45 years, am considering catching up on one of my journeys.
Having reconnected in life with two childhood friends after multi-decade gaps, I highly recommend it. It’s good for the soul, theirs and yours.
Lovely evening last night, I introduced one of my oldest friends to two of my newest friends during dinner at Fellini’s. I told them that it was such as treat to have three of my favorite people in the world at the table. I also took Rem to Deepdene Park. We got there after dark, but since there’s no leaves, we were able to see just fine. After all, we finished our 14.4 miles hike in September in the dark, and managed to not fall into the lake. That hike was an extremely helpful reference point for my 12 mile Grand Canyon hike. These are by far the two longest hikes I’ve done since my 20s.
My “tomato tree” has given up the ghost. I plucked the green tomatoes and put them on the window sill. I’ll cut all of the strings holding it the plant to it’s fence pole so that I can pull it up and that’ll be the end of that.
Wordle in 3, only one miss on Connections.
My brain refuses to keep proper use of its and it’s straight.
I blame it on autocorrect. 😉
Well-played, Barb. 🙂
As do I.
I have a bag full of green (starting to turn red) tomatoes – plus a bunch of red ones on the window sill.
I need to go pick the last few out there – as the plants are dead. (& clean up the dead plants.)
I don’t think I’ve ever had such a successful tomato season with just 5 plants – I guess dry weather is the key, as I didn’t water them much.
My green tomatoes are on a shelf getting as much southern sun as is possible. However, I may take some of them and attempt to make a green tomato chutney tomorrow.
My minimal Christmas decorations are in place. For the last few years I have put something out to indicate the Christmas season, but since I live alone never go “all in” because it’s too much work for a loner. Since I should be arriving at the Florida house on Christmas Eve I may drag out my childhood tree and place it somewhere in memory of my mother. We gave away many ornaments last month, but my mother had a TON, so there will be no shortage of options.
I think that would be very sweet. I have no idea where all the ornaments are from when I was a kid. Nothing special, but still wouldn’t mind having a few. I do have my train set! A big O gauge (N?) not that little HO stuff.
My mother LOVED Christmas (as well as dolls, Disney, and Betty Boop). I’m not sure how reliable one’s childhood memories are, but I have one in mind of coming home from school around Christmas and seeing my mother decorate our New York house while playing Christmas music (on a record player?) and singing along. Given my age at that time, she would have been in her forties.
my parents (of course) aren’t able to really decorate, and my brother really isn’t into it. So, we will see of the tree is up when I get there on the 12th. I may be doing it.
But -we really don’t put any presents under the tree either – so to me, the only real reason is for it to be in the picture window.
I hate decorating for a holiday I don’t celebrate personally. I am hopeful that since our house is in complete disarray we can forego the tree this year.
I don’t know whether to blame Apple (probably), or AT&T (possibly) but I have had a lot of trouble playing music on my HomePods recently. Things seem to be fine and dandy, then the song is interrupted, and either started again at its beginning, or another song is played. It’s a First World Problem, but aggravating regardless.
Five points to me for properly using its/it’s in both instances with this comment. 😀
LOL. Nice work.
wow- called the dentist office about rescheduling -they can fit me in today!
Since I go to the periodontist in between regular cleaning, I have bad gums, so every 3 months, if I miss one, then I have to reschedule the other, etc.
And – they didn’t get power back until 4:30pm – it went off around 1130.
That had to be so annoying for anyone that had afternoon appts – I didn’t hear them calling anyone, as they had no idea how long the power would be out.
That’s good luck for you, Barb. I’m sure there were a lot of people upset at the power outage.
So, they are building a probably huge building next door, that’s why the power outage yesterday. Just what this area by the stadium needs, more big buildings
As in the parking lot of that building? Hey, this is what the Braves wanted… (but I agree that area already has bad traffic on game days)
It’s going to be a high rise condo/apartment building . It’s on the side closer to 41.
Off to the dungeon to ride the trainer. Will check in again at lunchtime.
Hour on the trainer done, showered, heating up leftovers for lunch. Then, the choring!
My cold appears to be a little better today, thankfully it’s not too serious.
We tried the new seafood place next to Trader Joe’s last night, Alici. It was really good! Parking in that parking lot is a complete shitshow, but otherwise it’s pretty easy for us to get to.
Trader Joe’s by Piedmont Park?
that parking lot has always been a shit show………..
I always hated going down there because of the parking
Yes, that’s the one. We go there frequently for Mellow Mushroom and MetroFresh.
Wordle in 3 and eked out a completion on Connections. Green, yellow, blue, purple.
I tweaked the keyboard settings on my iPhone and it isn’t autocorrecting. Not sure if I’ll stick with it, but it was offering some really wonky predictive text. I find that the iPhone isn’t as good in that regard as my Android was, which is surprising to me.
Fun weekend away with pals and ponies. No rain ever fell despite a forecast that caused several of our hunt club members to cancel. I was grateful for the loan of a horse for the weekend, but also really sad not to have one of my own along.
I had two deuces in Wordle over the weekend so that was fun!
Glad to be home and tired from all the driving. I had tentatively planned to go to Thomasville today to swap out horses with a friend down there. I’m not at all disappointed that it didn’t work with his schedule.
Look at you nailing the Wordles!
I am almost as big of an Apple fan as can be found, but admit their autocorrect and Siri execution has not improved as much as it should.
At least they let us say “fuck” now.
Duck yeah! 😀
I turned that bullshit off years ago. Drove me crazy.
Finally managed to pull off Connections, surprisingly with only one mistake. I literally guessed on everything. That purple category is unacceptable.
after that answer – I finally did Connections (2 mistakes)
Yellow – green – blue – purple. And yes – Purple was dumb.
Allan got his Flu Shot / Covid booster today -we will see if he feels more or less sickly than I did.