I have a cold today.  Even so, did some work outside with Max and Maria, who are going to help redesign and rebuild the space around my house.  They are permaculturalists and have a beautiful place of their own.  http://www.melc.us

But before they arrived, I had breakfast.

Breakfast 

Oct 20 Breakfast

That's our own apple-pear juice, some raw apples and pears from the neighborhood, French toast using non-local flour from a local bakery, smothered with goat milk yogurt from Sebastapol and Willits honey.

I took a nap soon after getting my kids to school.  Then worked a bit with Max and Maria before having lunch.

Lunch 

This was simply leftovers.

Oct 20 Lunch

That's tap water, veggies and chicken from last night, a berry cobbler from a few days back.  Usually I'd give more specifics but right now I don't feel so hot and will leave it to any eager reader to sort it out for themselves by scrolling back over the month.  http://www.relocalize.net/blog/42

I am a bit grumpy too.

Dinner

I walked into the kitchen around 5 pm and it was a mess, and I didn't have any dinner plan, and I was feeling sorry for myself and wished I could just order a pizza to be delivered to my door, steaming hot, right out of a little car powered by gasoline and an internal combustion engine...No!  I got a grip on myself and powered through to create this.

Oct 20 Dinner

Pure comfort food. Chicken and rice soup.  The chicken was more leftovers, the rice is that wild stuff grown in Potter Valley, also in the mix are onions, garlic and ripe tomatillos from our yard, parsley from Covelo, and seaweed.  I'll give ya'll a close up of the seaweed.  I was using it as a table salt alternative. 

Mendocino Seaweed

It was a nice touch.  Flavor pretty bland, texture soft and a bit chewy.  It quickly soaks up the broth and expands in the soup and looks like it was recently picked.  Drying is a great way to preserve food.

Now I am snacking on some popcorn and will watch a movie on our DVD player to veggify my brain.  My DVD player draws 20 watts and my T.V. 110 watts.  Assuming the movie is 2 hours, that would be 0.26 kilowatt hours, which is 887 Btus, which is equivalent to 0.00016 barrels of crude oil, which is also equivalent to the work a single quite fit person could do for those two hours.  

Watching a movie = Having an energy slave

http://www.nous.org.uk/energy.slave.html

http://transstudio.com/2006/01/energy-slave-equivalency.htm

http://www.peakoil.ie/newsletters/580

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Slave