September 15, 2024
Driving miles saved today: 5.1 Total thrivin' miles saved in 853 days: 6366.6
We rode to HEB via the Westcreek Greenway, Yellow Rose Trail, and Violet Crown Trail North mid-morning for miscellaneous items. Riding conditions were warm, the shade on the Westcreek Greenway and Yellow Rose Trail welcomed, with calm to light winds and light to moderate pedestrian and vehicle traffic.
As an aside, the skunk population in our neighborhood has been active in the last week.
I also baked cookies this morning using some of the frozen avocado from last week. I took the avocado out of the freezer yesterday afternoon, removed it from its ziplock bag into a shallow bowl, left the bowl out at room temp for a couple of hours, then put it in the fridge. I was pleased with the avocado’s color this morning; I think adding lemon juice to mash before freezing helped. The baking result: yummy chocolate oatmeal cookies. My recipe is a plant-based modification of the Minimalist Baker’s 1 Bowl Cowgirl Cookies.
P.S. I found a bit about the Staedtler Clutch Pencil, mentioned by Terry Freedman when discussing favorite writing and drawing instruments.
Mary B, you tickle me! Figure of speech, of course. From details of today’s ride, a grand skunk drawing, to fabulous sounding cookies (making them soon) to the Staedtler clutch pens! (I started college to become a chemical engineer, 1967. No mechanical pencils were permitted or may not have existed?! The instructor was adamant that we not call our activity “printing.” “Lettering,” he would nearly shout! Sort of an unhappy fellow. We had springy lead holders for various darknesses of lead and used a lead pointer for adjusting line width. Barbaric by today’s standards. We used slide rules for all calculations and became masters at interpolating readings on the rule. So very long ago. Today I need no interpolation to recognize a dandy post when I see it! Oh happy days.
That avocado came out brilliantly! I hope the cookies taste as good as they look. 🤗🤗