I got all the tomatoes wrapped yesterday and got 4 quart bags of peppers chopped for the freezer. I have enough to make another quart, but when the adrenaline started wearing off, that knife got very hard to lift. I will probably try to chop up the rest later or give them to my neighbor. I wanted to clean out the big peppers and freeze them for stuffed peppers, but there was a problem. It is said that peppers with 4 lobes are female and sweeter, so they are better for stuffed peppers, and peppers with three lobes are male and better for cooking. These peppers must have identified as "other" because they just had two lobes and would not stand up. By the way, I do know that it is not true because a pepper fruit does not have a sex; it is the flower, and a pepper has both male (stamen) and female (pistil) parts in its flower, making it able to reproduce, so it is the variety that produces the lobes.

I live in a place that only catches glimpses of winter. It was gorgeous and 76 yesterday, nippy today after a front started moving in that is supposed to bring us a night or two in the 20s with days only in the 40s (30s at my mother's), then it is supposed to be back in the 70s again. We rarely get more than a week at a time of cold weather or snow, and I like it that way.

Four of my roses are just beautiful today. Two are loaded, but two only have a bloom or two, which are just perfect. I am on my way to cut a bouquet when I get off here so that I can enjoy them for a few more days.

I saw a video yesterday where a woman was putting up wallpaper that had dusty teal and dusty rose in it, and she was using those colors to decorate with. It made me wonder if I used dusty teal or aqua in that dusty rose bathroom, if I could keep some of the marble and make it just look retro. I already have a bedspread and chair in dusty teal at the other lake house for the adjoining bedroom. I could just add some dusty rose pillows and throw and pull them together, maybe. I just know that before we started house hunting, I was convinced that I wanted to paint my walls grey and put in LVP instead of the carpets in the bedrooms here. After viewing almost 100 houses in a year, where every single one of them was cookie-cutter grey with LVP floors except two, I don't want that in my house anymore. The only houses that I can remember anything about were the two that were not grey/LVP, and two more that had horrible gulleys cut through their yards. I can not remember layouts or any details of any of the others, but I remember all the rooms of those four. The rest looked so much alike that they blurred together. I am too much of a rebel for that. Weigh in on what you think about incorporating teal and leaving some of the rose. I might also be leaning toward a softer, paler teal in the kitchen, or pastel blue. Maybe.

I have chicken soup and hamburger soup (no barley or turnips in mine, though, cause I didn't have any) to get me through the next couple of days. I love chili days with soup or soup with chili days.