2021 Life Logs, Day 30: Keeping Busy on a Cold Winter Day
Date: Saturday, January 30, 2021
Weather: Sunny, Still Very Cold; High 21, Low 8 Degrees F
Location: At Home in The Cottage, East Falmouth, MA
By noon today it was 18 degrees F outside, but it felt like 6 degrees F with the wind chill. The good news is it was bright and sunny and there was only half the wind we had yesterday. So that is an improvement. I put Shadow’s sweater on him and we did our normal morning walk. The only problem was that my eyes kept watering, causing my cheeks to feel like they were freezing. Still, it was great to be outside in the sunshine. And I loved walking down by the dock and seeing the beauty of the ice.
I spent the rest of the day alternating working on my new puzzle with editing and writing. My writing project is going slowly, but I am so excited to be back at it again. My puzzle working is also going slowly, and today I got sidetracked. I described the puzzle in a previous log–food and flowers arranged beautifully around my favorite food, artichokes. Today I was working on the apricots. As I was working I thought, are they apricots or peaches? The puzzle box has no information on it other than a sticker noting that it is a Galison 500 Piece Puzzle named Artichoke Floral. I Googled that and found out the puzzle is from a photo by foody photographer Sarah Phillips. I Googled her name and found out that she is on a mission to save ugly food. About that time, my weekly Misfits delivery of ‘ugly’ fruits and vegetables arrived. I should have taken a picture of the contents of the box before storing the items away because the food looked beautiful when I opening the box. I didn’t think of that until just now as I am writing this log, so maybe next week I will remember and share the photo with you. Like Sarah Phillips, Misfits is on a mission to save imperfect organic produce by buying it and selling it at a reduced price rather than letting it end up as food waste. I am so happy to be the recipient of all that ‘ugly’ produce while working a puzzle by a woman dedicating her life to saving ‘ugly’ food.
