Jacque le Chat

Our garden produced one ear of corn this year!

It's beautiful, but it will hardly take us through winter.

Actually, I picked that yesterday while I was out picking tomatoes for our dinner. (Pasta with a cherry tomato sauce, which, no more pasta for me since I had a major blood sugar unbalancing after eating a big bowl of pasta for the first time in who knows how long.) Anyway, the garden is heading into fall, with the last of the tomatoes, and a harvest of green beans from a volunteer plant that went nuts, and a red pepper. We'll clear out of bit of it--the garden, I mean--and put in some radishes and maybe some lettuces for fall and winter.

Today I took my brother to an appointment, then to pick up some burritos. Then I came home and chatted with Dave for a bit (he worked from home today) while I sketched some animals out of this hilarious new book I have that is meant to teach you how to draw animals. I drew a handful of bears today and a tiger's face that was a bit wonky, so I added a beret and called him Jacque le Chat.

I also did a bit of painting, watercolors. I signed up for a Craftsy online class with this artist who has a complicated process that involves value studies and underpainting, so I've been trying that. I like the way the paintings look when you underpaint (he uses a gray scale underpainting), but I have a long way to go with my drawing skills to make it really work.

Anyway, I did that.

Dinner tonight was a quick stir fry made with broccoli, carrots, onions, garlic, red cabbage, and tofu. We haven't been eating rice, so I served it over bulgur. It was nice but light, so I had half a nashi and some soy nut butter later as a snack.

I've been on Twitter recently, too, just looking at the insanity that is Donald Trump and his little Hitler youth surrogates. I'm so frightened for our country by the threat that this man represents. I hope he has his Dead Zone moment soon.