Saturday, October 11, 2025

Dull Day

 Today was a hodge podge day. Errands to be run, a bit of groceries. Then back home and up to deliver some pepperoni to my niece. We picked apples. She has a glut of them and I am welcome to as many as I can use. 

We have had two hard frosts, and so I picked the last few of my tomatoes and figured to use them for spaghetti sauce. I added some of my dehydrated onions, mushrooms and garlic. I tossed in my seasonings and three cooked links of Italian sausage and let it all simmer together to rehydrate my vegetables. I peeled and cut up apples for an apple pie. 

Tim spent the afternoon tinkering with his 'new' old truck. So far he has changed the oxygen sensors, something about wiring harnesses and grounds. He cleaned the fuel filters today and he changed the ignition switch. He is patiently tracking down codes. He bought a fuel pump for his last old truck but thinks he will have to put it on the new old truck and just order another fuel pump for the last old truck.😡‍πŸ’«

I say, 'I don't understand why you had to buy a new old truck. Why didn't you just fix up the last old truck?' The answer is always 'The body on this one is perfect.'

Lucky he doesn't apply that thinking to wives. I will stick to apple pies and spaghetti sauce. 

But here's something curious. I didn't really have enough tomatoes to make enough sauce, so I added a jar of marinera to stretch the sauce. It was a brand I was not familiar with, but the label said 'Marinera' and underneath 'roasted red bell peppers'.  It was only after I added the sauce that I noticed in smaller writing above the word 'marinera'. It said 'with Hatch chiles'. 

Have you ever seen marinera with chiles?

Tim does not like spicy food but he liked this a lot. He also liked his slice of warm apple pie with ice cream on top. 

So that was today. Who is that snoring out there?

36 comments:

  1. Doesn't sound like too dull of a day, until you heard the snoring. Linda in Kansas

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  2. Good warming food for these colder autumn days. Chillis are good for that!

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    1. It will be lunch today. The left overs will be frozen.

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  3. Some good food being made by the sound of it. By the sounds of it the new- old truck is a compensation for not having a house to work on. Your man just has to keep busy.

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    1. He does. I suppose I should be a bit more understanding. I am a little like that myself.

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  4. And when the new old truck is finished...?!!
    I wonder where "Hodge podge" came from?

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    1. 14th century word Hotch Potch, which was a stew made out of many different vegetables, meat. It also meant an unskilled agricultural worker. I imagine it was used as a name because of their rustic one pot meals.

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    2. Like lobscows in north Wales...or lobscouse in Liverpool! I wonder if that what where one of my friends in south Wales got his nickname...Lob!!

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    3. Well now, I am off on another hunt!

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  5. At least working on a truck has to be done outside and he isn't covering the dining table with hundreds of small bits of jigsaw/clock parts/model kits and leaving them there for months at a time whilst he is 'working' on them i.e. picking up a bit every week or so and saying "I really must get this finished sometime"!

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    1. Lol. Okay. You are right. We haven't got a dining room so the kitchen table would be a disaster zone.

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  6. This sounded like a perfect retired day for you. Oh, men and their toys. Mine can't stand it if he doesn't always have the newest version of an electronic gadget. Example: he bought a very nice weather station for the roof of the house, and about 2 weeks after he bought it, they released a newer, updated version. Well, his Mom got our "old" one and we have the new one. Lord.

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    1. We are more 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' type people!

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  7. I wish I was as motivated as you to cook / bake even half as much as you do!

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    1. Sadly, I can't eat most of it. I am dehydrating an oven full of onion right now and making applesauce.

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  8. I always found boat parts, pulled apart on the table on the boat but they didn’t stay there long enough to bother me as the boat needed the repairs done as soon as possible. I feel pretty useless when I ready all that you accomplish in a day. Relax, you are retired now. Gigi

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    1. When Tim and I first met, he had an very large engine pice in his livingroom. He was working on it.

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  9. Tim reminds me of my son-in-law, never happier than when researching and then tinkering with old vehicles, and always on the look-out for the next 'must have' bargain.

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    1. As noted, at least it is not another house! He does love his old stuff. Seems happy enough with his old wife too.

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  10. When you retire dullness will occasionally creep in but you seem to fill time fairly happily and as for Tim he has collection of trucks to play around with.

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    1. It is, so far, a contented sort of dullness.

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  11. Are you implying that your body isn’t perfect? 😎

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  12. We are leading almost parallel lives. Fuel pumps and oxygen sensors and I think Glen may be on the lookout for a new old truck too.

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    1. Oh I know where he can get a new old truck!

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  13. My favorite Sonic cheeseburger πŸ” has Hatch green chilies on it! They aren't overly spicy ... Just delicious!

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  14. Well, I'm glad the chilies didn't heat things up too much! You are never going to convince Tim that he didn't need that second truck. πŸ˜†

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  15. Maybe Tim likes spicy more than he realizes:) Glad it turned out well.

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  16. In our partnership I was the one with projects going all the time. He just had clutter..

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    1. I suppose that there is one in every couple!

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  17. Snoring? Oh hell no! This is the stuff of life. Next, show me what's held on your fridge door by magnets. Know what I mean?

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  18. A dull day this Sunday. I am making another batch of salsa.

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Dull Day

 Today was a hodge podge day. Errands to be run, a bit of groceries. Then back home and up to deliver some pepperoni to my niece. We picked ...