Piano today for the kiddos -- other than that I stayed home and cleaned. Exciting, I know -- but I'm feeling very accomplished right now. I addressed the two towering stacks of miscellaneous papers, magazines and whatever else on what over time has essentially become our 'catch-all' table in the diningroom. It's now all been properly sorted and filed/discarded/decluttered. Go me.....

Made a huge amount of potato salad, one of my family's all-time favorite dishes, for dinner. I used 6 pounds of potatoes -- plus celery, onion, etc. It will be gone by tomorrow morning. It's astonishing how much of that stuff DH, DS, and DD can put away.....

I did save the potato cooking water, to use in bread, soup, etc. Potato water is especially good in savory baked goods -- helps them to keep longer too. As for bread, I ran across a recipe today while sorting that I'm very anxious to try. It's 'Walnut-Sage Bread', and the most appealing feature is that it calls for lotsa sage -- 1/3 cup. Well, my sage plant is about the only thing that really goes gang-busters for me here in my shaded yard, bless it's little sagey heart. It just grows and grows, happy as a clam (and sage is so handy in that the leaves don't fall off -- one can just run out and pick what one needs all winter). I do my best to try to use it when I can, but recipes seldom call for more than a tablespoon or so -- so this recipe looks like a keeper. Anyway, I may sub the walnuts in the bread when I make it, for something cheaper -- like roasted sunflower seeds (which I currently have 5 pounds of in my freezer, thanks to my co-op order from yesterday)....