not kabuki

Yes, that's right. The clerk at Hannaford's said thank you today. It was soft and on the sullen side, but it was definitely "thank you." I was stunned. I could barely walk to my car.

In other news, I made homemade applesauce for the first time. It was okay. The Fannie Farmer recipe said to cook the apples slowly, so maybe that was why it wasn't totally awesome. The apples to start with were pretty close to awesome, Empires from Honeypot Hill in Stow, although not at that zenith/nadir/total tart fulfillment level that I've grown to love and expect from HH. I'm a big time apple snob and my kids are too. It's a curse sometimes.

All excellence is.