Salt, Jorts and Donna

Yesterday I added a salt to my  collection, thank you Sandra. Basil salt. 

Reading clockwise from the clear container: kosher, coarse seasalt, basil salt, mix of dried basil and seasalt,  here wrongly labeled, but now corrected, can't get good help these days, regular iodized salt, Himalayan pink. My little container of spicy ground kosher still in the cabinet, camera shy.

I use them all for different purposes including cleaning. Kosher salt and olive oil make a great scrub for cast iron, preserving the patina and the nonstickitude. Table salt and lemon juice clean copper on the rare occasions when I clean my only copper, a tiny little pan.

Yesterday was a perfect sitting outside watching clouds day. Mare's tails or contrails, still lovely.

While reading ny latest Donna Leon

Taking place in the pandemic.

And for people interested in the phenom that is Jorts

Right side of history, I'd say. 

Speaking of phenoms, goodbye and thank you to Serena, best of all time tennis player and fighter of racism. Never forgot her parents.

Also a more permanent farewell to Barbara Ehrenreich, whose Nickel and Dimed among other writing, spoke for the working poor, RIP.

Happy day everyone, rest on, fight on, never forget where you came from.

Photo AC