Looking a bit rough.

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I took a shower first thing.  Even so, I look rather tough, like too many days in the sun.  I hope I didn't spook my visitor tonight.  I do this, from time to time, and have since I was a baby.  As I said, when my mother brought me home, for a month and maybe more people told her, to her face, that they should return me.  My skin was scaly.  She said it took a couple of months of tlc to bring me around.  Some people even thought she had traded me in.  Just a little tlc and...  I'll work on that myself, now that I am usually able.  Oh, and a redness to my face.  Part of the reason I use the avatar that I use.  This is what happens when I travel alone for too long.

I did complete the dishes yesterday, but need to finish the laundry yet.  Then to move some things upstairs, sweep, and maybe make a run to town for shopping.  If I get this done, a day of lighter smaller detail work, then a run for town sometime in the next few days.  With shopping out of the way, I should be able to get my friend to wherever he wants to go and out for a meal.  It would be good for both of us.  Hopefully, a little extra care and I won't look quite so... different.

Dinner was pretty good.  Garden corn and potatoes, a pork cutlet, and apple peach sauce.  I realized something about apple sauce and pork tonight.  Apple sauce used to be the perfect complement to pork.  Back when pork was very rich, and a chop smelled like lard, apple sauce cut it alone.  Now that pork has been trimmed and tamed, thinned and raised as it is, it no longer has that odor or richness.  When I heard the sauce was to be peach and apple, blended, it hit.  That, I thought, was the key.  After dining, I am now sure, and will change my mix from now on.  Oh, it doesn't have to be peach (although that is probably the best).  Any sweeter fruit, added to the apple, will do.  Cherries, strawberries, mango, and others will do quite nicely.  No, it isn't a modernism, or revision, it is a change as food changes.  Pairings exist for a reason, such as apple sauce and pork to begin with.  But when one changes, the other needs to change.  It just doesn't always seem apparent, even when something seems off.  Seeing, realizing, doesn't always call to mind a fix, or even a need for change, in spite of the nose on our face, sometimes... often.

Well...  Actually, I am out of cream and milk.  I best make the run right now.  My store is still open, otherwise I have to pay the really high Walmart milk and cream prices.  Odd how that works.  Then again, even Amazon isn't offering the best prices these days.  Hmm, Sunday?  Nope, my store is closed.  But one of the other regular grocers might be open.  If they carry my brands.  Bleh.  Later.