The pantry

 Tuesday.  My day off.  The outside temp was a balmy 45 (F) when I got up this morning.  It will not get out of the 50s (F) today.  Tomorrow temps are supposed to be a little warmer, but it's supposed to be showery.  I think most of us here in Central PA would rather it was rainy instead of showery.  That's what happened the last time forecasters predicted showery weather.  

I worked yesterday.  It was mostly boring, so I worked on The Body in History.  I am approaching the moment of the denouement.  For those who've read my books, my books have one of two endings.  There's either a cozy mystery ending, though my cozy endings usually involve large crowds of people, as in the ending of The Body in Motion, which takes place in a Broadway theater filled will people with cameras, or action endings, as in The Body in Repose, which had a smash down chase across roofs of the French Quarter in the rain.  The Body in History will have either a cozy, or an action ending.

There are 2 old area rugs in the the weight/music/computer room that have been here for literally decades.  My previous 3 dogs, each in their own way, did a job on them.  As a result, there are pulls all over the place.  Howie is exacerbating the damage.  This morning I looked around and realized there I am going to have to move some furniture to remove them.  I'm probably going to replace them with other area rugs, the alternative would mean far more work than I want to spend.  Here is Howie on one of the rugs I'm talking about.

Trump continues to nominate people who are unqualified to cabinet level positions because he knows they will be "yes" men (no women) and far easier to control.  Evangelicals are not happy with his choice of pro-abortion Robert Kennedy.  I wonder how long it will take them to realize he was simply playing the Jesus thing in order to get their votes.  Too late, for certain.  

As most of us realize, prices are going to be going up.  In order to help offset these unwanted costs increases, I've begun buy certain food stuff in bulk, so, in an odd way, you could say that I've become somewhat of a survivalist.  Nothing extreme, mind you, but eggs when up in price, so I've purchased a container of powdered eggs.  Rice, beans, and canned vegetables.  Actually, what I'm doing is creating a sort of pantry.  For years and years people had pantries.  Since the advent of your local supermarket, pantries have for the most part disappeared.  You might want to give it a try.  Think of it as your own, private, food bank.