Smoked Sausage and Split Pea

Yummy, better tonight!

The soup pictured above is a smoked sausage and split pea.  Easy to put together, cook it for over an hour and voila, dinner.  It called for 6 cups of water, which I used.  I always follow the directions the first time through a new recipe.  Next time I will try using some chicken stock for a little more richness.  But I had two bowls and will save the leftovers for meals tomorrow.  I love fall… perfect soup weather

Today I stripped my bed and washed all of the linens.  I also got the lawn mowed, so the yard looks neat and tidy.  A couple of weeks ago I brought home the red wagon that had been used at my summer home at Indian Acres.  I am a lucky, lucky person… as there is an angel there (his name is Fuji) who has, for the last two seasons taken it upon himself to relieve me of the need to take care of my lawn.  He has mowed, and sprayed the weeds that popup in the sidewalk and even completely removed the crappy stuff in the corner garden so my place looks much nicer.  He does it without ever asking and without taking any money for gas…. I tried and was told I should not insult him again by offering.  So I am ever, ever so grateful.  But I had not used the little trailer there in two summers, so I loaded it into the pickup truck when it had made the trip to Indian Aces for the weekend and brought it home.  After getting a ball for my riding tractor, I was able to hitch it up to the tractor.  Today, I rolled all around the yard, cleaning up the twigs and branches, pulled weeds in my side hill and hauled it to where I could dump it in my back yard.  Perfect.

Then I came in and finally got my shower.  I really needed it then…