Cooking the NYTimes and Other Assorted Retirement Activities

So about this Clean Food movement... I googled Clean Food to ensure I understand this concept.  Lo and behold, I do.  Clean Food is what my grandmothers and aunts and great aunts cooked.  Fresh meat and produce, often purchased the day of the meal, served as the backbone of our meals.  As kids, we preferred canned vegetables over fresh--what was wrong with us?--and a small box of frozen veggies provided a special treat.   Once my grandmother sent me back to the store with a head of broccoli because she thought it looked terrible.  Freshness was paramount to her.  She also knew how various foods were good for you.  Onions contributed to shiny hair.  Carrots kept your eyesight sharp.  An apple a day keeps the doctor away.  Red meat put protein to build muscles and iron for red blood cells.  I'm sure there were more and I wish I remembered them. The Panera commercials touting their clean and real food caught my attention...

Perhaps you recall a previous post about the Birdhouse Project .  Below is proof positive of its completion. Truth be told, they sat on top of the refrigerator for a couple weeks while I waited for the Spousal Unit  ™ to mount them on the garage.  Influenced by the film Wonder Woman, I figured I could take matters into my own hands.  I went to the local hardware store, described what I wanted to do, and came home with some hangars.  My pounding on the storage garage wall was enough to bring the Spousal Unit ™  outside to see what I was doing.  Turns out the recommendation at the hardware store didn't work but it did tip Dan-o over the edge so that he came up with a solution and mounted the birdhouses on the garage. Pretty good, huh?   Cooking: Do you remember the book Tuesdays With Morrie ?  We have Tuesdays With Maggie (daughter #2), Pete (her Spousal Unit ™ )  and Georgia (granddaughter #3, grandchild # 6). ...