Weekend Stuff

Gentle Readers and Dear Friends another short weekend ends and a long week begins.  This weekend just flew by - whoosh!! But, don't they all!!  Ours was completely slow and easy.  Doing nothing very strenuous.  We did all the regular things we normally do - laundry, vacuuming, load the dishwasher then unload the dishwasher then do it again (that never seems to end!!) We did our usually run to the super market Saturday morning - with a stop first at Noah's Bagels - gotta have a challah roll and bacon!!  We found some quite delicious things.....

There where locally grown fresh cherries - again!!  I totally thought the season was over - so of course we bought a bag.

Rico and I love ice cream and although he really only likes vanilla bean - I love trying all the different flavours they come out with.  This Fleur de Sel we found last week was still in stock so we got more this week - it is simply delicious!!!  If you like vanilla with caramel and little tiny chocolate salted caramels sprinkled throughout -  then this is for you - I am totally hooked - that is until the Pumpkin ice-cream comes out in a few weeks......

We also were talking Thanksgiving - it is just around the corner - and we both had read articles recently of the "shortage of pumpkin" that is supposed to happen this Fall.  Now whether this is true or not who knows..... as we walked down the baking isle - we saw that the large section of canned pumpkin was almost empty - where there could have been 2 or 3 dozen cans on the shelf there where only three cans of the stuff -

......so I grabbed one of the three and thought I would pass the info along.  Even the pourable pie mix in a can was basically all gone - there was only a single can of that on an empty shelf.  I have tried both fresh pumpkin and canned pumpkin in pies and I can not tell the difference - So, it could be just people are all reading the same article and all of us are panicking or there really could be less pumpkin out there for pie!
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Usually after the early morning excursion to the store and then dropping off the groceries at home we head on out to the Estate Sales - and there where some out there this weekend - but, we skipped them all.  Instead we drove on over to Alamo Square and spent some time walking around that park.  It was a lovely day, cool breezes and bright blue skies where perfect for some time to just walk.  I had my camera and took these snaps.....

This great old house is now a B&B and over looks the the Square from the NW corner.

A great view of the city from the square

 A path through some of the old trees.

Looking east from the square you get this iconic snap of the Six Sisters or painted ladies and the city in the background....

... from the same spot I turned around and took a snap of the tourists taking the same picture.  This square gets 100's of visitors a day all getting this same shot of the houses and city -

Walking up the hill away from Steiner street and the painted ladies you get this view looking west toward the ocean - and all the fog rolling in over the city and Sutro tower to the left.

Another path walking towards the doggies 1/2 of the square - this is where you can run your dogs off leash.

Looking north along Scott street to the beginning of our walk.  We used to live in this neighborhood and Alamo Square is where we walked the who hounds.

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I Baked up this coffee cake yesterday...

I'll get the recipe up in the morning.
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I also got in some stitching.  I finished up the stitching my exchange pieces - and -  I also stitched up Part I of Carol' Mystery SAL.  Here is a snap -

I am using a piece 32ct Sand - and the silks are HDF Ox Blood and Blueberry Soup in the little elongated Algerian Eyes.  Not too sure about those....... I might just have to frog those out.........

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That's about it for today sports fans!  Thanks for topping by, do come again.

Take care,

edgar