at home with ann

Thanks for bearing with me through my week-long hiatus.  We took a long weekend and went to the beach house in Rhode Island at the end of last week.  Friday was one of the nicest beach days of the year, hot and sunny.  Saturday we were evacuated due to the approaching hurricane.  Sunday we spent the day at our own house, without power or water,  listening to trees and branches crack outside.  Monday, facing a second day without power and no end in sight, we fled to my parents' house in New Hampshire.  Finally, yesterday afternoon I arrived back home and spent the afternoon throwing out half the food in our refrigerator and actually cleaning the shelves.  It's nice to have things back to normal. I've mentioned before how much I hate wasting food.  It feels wrong to me on so many levels.  When I saw that five of the tomatoes from the CSA had some ugly black spots on them yesterday, I knew I wouldn't be making fresh caprese salad, but I c...