Wednesday, October 14, 2009

The first snowman

It feels a lot like November, but I went walking with Unky Herb this afternoon for a bit. He was working from home today, and was on a break, so we didn't venture too far from home. Part way down the block we encountered the remnants of a snowman, the first I've seen this season. It hasn't completely melted away as you can see, but its features have lost any sharpness that they may have had. Herb for scale.



Gray days are not much fun, but they apparently bring on a hankering for ring bologna. As Gino's blog lately has expressed, ring bologna was an important part of our childhood diet and this family food blog seems to have ignited some nostalgia for that diet. Why bologna? Why not meatloaf? Who can say? But I was at Cub Foods, topping up the larder, when ringed sausage seemed like the perfect food to celebrate my 24,472nd day on the planet. And my 500th post on this blog. All in one day. Yahoo. Unky Herb made pancakes and we had ring bologna and pancakes and a nice spinich salad (without wine). Guys have to have their greens. I'm having a real bologna sandwich tomorrow.



October seems to rearrange sensibilities. The endless summer is not really endless, and the sun doesn't always shine. But the weekend is coming and the sun is very likely to shine again.

2 comments:

Retired Professor said...

That's a nice photo of Herb. It looks very November-ish.

Three baloney posts by Gino, two on his blog, including the baloney sandwich post for his 4,000 mile post, and one on the food blog. Two posts by you about balogna, one on each blog. Very odd.

Congrats on both the accumulation of days and your 500th post.

Good luck on that warmer weather.

Gino said...

Congratulations on the accumulation of days.

Good luck with your digestion following the ingestion of the large sausage.

Not that I am having any problems with mine, I hasten to add. Just saying . . .