Today was the last day of the farmers market here in St. James. I now have a stash of squash, onions and potatoes to carry us into the early winter time. My favorite acquisition was two more jars of Joel’s mother’s horseradish dill pickles. Dennis is a fan of dill pickles. I did ask him and his mighty hands to open the very first jar I bought. Before I knew it, he was in the dining room telling me how good they were. He was right! As this was Joel’s last day, he let me in on a secret. After the jar is empty of the original contents, slice up any pickles to small dimensions and let them soak for several days and the horseradish flavor will infuse into the new batch. This I will try.
I do now have an appointment for Mediacom to come to our home and allow us to have the land line phone and the Internet from Mediacom. It is for November 16th, or the next cancellation. When I was here at the library yesterday late afternoon, I checked my emails and Mediacom had left many messages about the appointment. “Hello,” they need to come due to lack of service. I took a deep breath and used my cell phone to talk to a real live person. How special is that?
Dennis will come home this evening at supper time, so I think I will head home from the library and bake out a package of bacon and fix a breakfast-type of supper for him.
Libraries are not open on Sundays, so I will see you all on Monday, with an extra hour of daylight, in the month of November. That is a bit hard to take in.