Monday Musings-Socks and Sandals, Zero Waste

As I sit here waiting for my brother to come and take sis and I to lunch (before he tinkers with the off kilter garage door), the weather is 70 and feels like a bit more and will be 75 and continually sunny for today and the highs will be up to eighty this week. Before we hit a high of 52 and possible precip on Saturday. This,  my friends, is why I don't bother setting my thermostat to automatic hardly ever except perhaps in August. And why my closet never has things put away or out of season. 

As I wait to go to Lucille's Creole Cafe and have beignets for lunch.........

1.  My sister went to visit a friend this weekend. Said friend has turned her home into a mini farm and sells her produce from the front of her house (right in downtown Denver). She invited my sister to a talk on no/low waste and she came home raving-both about many of the ideas in terms of the planet, and also on the savings from said steps.  One of our big goals is lowering the food waste (we cannot compost right now, and lettuce in the landfill is as bad as cow methane). I'm going to start by freezing immediately after cooking and if that lowers the leftovers on hand for lunches we'll deal with that another way.

2.  I've changed over mainly to sandals and socks as my foot attire. Since at least one regular reader always asks "What's up with that?", here's the story. I have extreme sensitivity on the tops of my feet in the middle. I cannot wear tie shoes at all. Occasionally I can wear Skecher Go Walk types of shoes without socks if they are a little big. While I don't have them on today I also like really really bright socks with jeans, leggings or the like. So each year I take the oldest pair of SAS sandals from the summer and turn them into year around shoes. Since the oldest this year are this bone color, I may throw my pennies and dollars at a brown or black pair. 

these are too painful to wear because of the strap!

3. On Sunday we went to see our local Town Hall Arts Center version of Cabaret. Unusual both because rarely do I entertain on the weekend unless it is with working family members and the fee for said musical was almost $40-and we went out and grabbed a drink afterward. This is why most of my social life on a budget (yes! a title for a post I think) is ten dollar entrees and water and why I cut in areas such as food and challenge myself to buy used (there are a couple six month challenges coming up).  

4. Last week was a famine week on the leaving the house front. I managed to work out, clean out my closet pretty much entirely, knit and sew and read more than one book. This week is a bit more feast with a fairy garden making class tomorrow afternoon, knitting on Wednesday, the church Young at Heart group and happy hour on Thursday. Fortunately today, Friday and Saturday will be stay at home and craft and read (and use that slow cooker) days.

5. I think I mentioned this before perhaps. But as I was revisiting my trip to Texas with friends this weekend, I realized that for most things, even travel, three weeks is the absoluter most I am willing to be away from home, and two and a half weeks are better. Something to consider as I plan a vacation in February and another in April/May.

I guess I've become more of a homebody than I thought!