Lots of progress

[cjsmith]

All leftover cheese grated, flour-tossed, and frozen.

Books completely reorganized. Large armfuls moved to other rooms. Now there aren't stacks of books on the chimney and in front of the bookcase. Fiction, writing, and souvenirs (photos and travel books) are in this room and that's it. A major purge of all other topics (ahem, hiking and running and backpacking? sheesh) coming up soon.

Desktop computer area completely purged. I don't use any of that stuff. Out it goes!

Laptop "docking station" area set up. (Yeah, ok, I kept one mouse and a network cable.)

Couch cleaned up in the vain hope anyone anywhere might take it. What the heck do people DO with things like that? I don't want it. Its upholstery is torn and thus probably no one else will want it either. Yet it's a freakin' big thing to just throw in a landfill.

Cat snoring on nearby chair. Dinner coming soon courtesy of rfrench. (Sadly, bills still not paid.) I could happily use another day, but this is not too bad.

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[nosrednayduj]

Different kinds of flour (white, whole wheat, sometimes rye, sometimes bread flour, sometimes two kinds of whole wheat -- I'm very fond of Arrowhead Mills Whole Wheat Pastry Flour to add fiber to cookies without giving them sawdust texture), several kinds of rice, couscous, barley, kasha, corn meal, corn flour, and I've probably forgotten some, being too lazy to go actually look.

But I have cooking as a hobby, so it's reasonable to have tons of ingredients "on hand just in case". My kitchen is to die for. It was billed as "having every possible appliance" in the ad for the house (it doesn't have a trash masher. Not that I want one, just that it's POSSIBLE ;-)

[nosrednayduj]

Oatmeal.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Wow, how cool!

I feel like a complete idiot for forgetting that rice is a grain. I'm not sure I ever knew what couscous was, exactly. I have only a little bit of that hanging around.

I am betting that you are just one eensy weensy step away from having a really good grain mill. :-)