Lately, what with all the cold, crisp nights, the later and later sunrises and the startlingly icy hardwood floors, this has been a much more difficult place to leave.

Harvested from my container garden.

So a little status update on our "light home improvements".

It's getting better, I think...

right...?

Yeah. Yeah, I think it's getting better...

It's gotta be getting better.

Beautiful potatoes from the Farmer’s Market.

Nothing like a gluten free 

banana muffin recipe 

to cheer you up on a rainy day.

Not only have these received rave reviews in our house 

but they are super easy to whip up and a great way to get rid of those over-ripe bananas that just keep hanging around on the counter, 

in the way, 

attracting fruit flies.

We tend to get a lot of those over here. 

Both my husband and E might very well be monkeys for all the bananas they go through.

However, and it is quite the 'however'...

Neither of them can handle a banana a few hours past perfectly ripe.

Like, really and truly, show them a banana with more than ten freckles and it's

"no thank you," every time.

Which leaves a fair amount of super sweet, super flavorful fruit languishing in the fruit bowl, in the fridge and eventually in the freezer.

Where it tends to become something no longer even resembling anything remotely banana-esque.

But rather a brown, sticky, gooey mass, full of ice crystals, in the bottom of a ziplock bag.

No one wants that.

So.

Thank you gluten free banana muffin recipe.

http://freerangecookies.com/2014/04/07/fluffy-banana-muffins-review/

A Study in Morning Glories

Happy Monday!

Chalk art courtesy of E.