Random Things on a Friday

 Happy Friday!  I hope where ever you are, the weather is great and life is not too overwhelming at the moment.

Here's a few things from my week I thought I would share for a Friday wrap up kind of post.

1. This is sort of a PSA.  If you use a paper towel roll holder that holds the roll vertical like I do, don't forget to check it and clean the base now and then.  Honestly, I'm not sure how long it's been since I did this; mainly because I'm not sure how many years ago I first bought and started using this roll holder (prior to that the roll just stood on the counter and would randomly get knocked over/blown over in a stiff breeze now and then).  So, let's say, for the sake of easy numbers, I've had this thing for five years.  It never occurred to me that over time, maybe some little paper towel debris (from tearing off those towels) would build up on/under the base of the holder and that I should probably regularly give it a wipe down.  Maybe when I change the roll (we don't go through paper towels very fast, like several months for one roll) would be a good time to do that.  Definitely don't go for five years, because then it will look like this which is kind of gross and unhygienic-looking.

Definitely wipe it off with a damp cloth now and then, so it will be nonfuzzy and look much better, like this

2.  Another PSA kinda thing.  If you're making banana cream pie and your recipe calls for you to put a layer of sliced bananas onto the crust before pouring in the filling but you forget to do that, you can put those banana slices right on top of the filling after it's poured in (and you cuss yourself out because you realize you forgot to do the bananas first).  Just know that you have to eat the whole pie pretty quick because those banana slices will brown after a day or two and start looking rather unappealing.  I wanted to share this info with you just in case you ever mess up your pie by forgetting to put the slices on top of the crust and then pour in the pudding filling.  All will not be lost, just toss the slices on top and eat pie with each meal for the next day or so.  😁

3.  The Northern Lights were out, sort of, a couple of nights this week.  No big light pillars, more like an opaque-ish pale green light that swirled horizontally a bit.

4. I'm taking part in an October walking club over at optimisticmusings.com so have been taking short walks for the last few days.  Just around this little place here, so far, and challenging myself to take at least one picture on every walk.  Here's Wednesday, Thursday, and today's pictures:

5. Last Saturday was the Fall Book Swap that my friend organizes and puts on.  I think I spent about an hour and a half browsing all the offerings, took in 14 books from home and came out with a bit more than that.

Most are authors I haven't read before and thought I would take a chance on, based on the blurb on the back (or inside cover) of the book.  What do I have to lose, other than a little reading time, if I don't like them?  Didn't cost me anything.  And if I find some new favorite authors in the process, all the better! 

Welcome To October; My Grandma Would Have a Fit . . .

 The weather at this little place here is so beautiful, it doesn't feel like October.  Well, maybe like a really good weather day in October.  Right now the temperature is in the low 70s, the sky is bright blue, and there's a warm breeze.  The sun is strong and hot when you're in it.  And that's why I'm running around, hanging laundry on the line in my bare feet.

Which, were she still alive to see me doing this, would absolutely give my maternal grandmother a fit.  Growing up, it seemed that a lot of things I did gave her a fit. . .  (Sorry Grandma, now that I'm a grandma too I can kind of see where you were coming from.)  But this particular thing, this being without shoes and socks in October would give her cause to predict a coming sickness for me.

Because, and I quote "When the leaves come, and the leaves go, you don't go bare foot."  Meaning, in the warm early Spring days, when the leaves are beginning to unfurl their buds, no matter how hot the sun, you need shoes on your feet.  And the same goes for in the Fall, when the leaves are dropping from the trees and covering the ground.

According to Grandma, I should be wearing shoes right now.  But I'm not. Rebel that I am, I'm choosing to live dangerously and walk barefooted through the fallen leaves.  

Hope I don't end up coming down with that cold Faline had last week that kept her home from school--and therefore was at my house since she also couldn't go to a sitter--on Friday. . .