I have my furnace turned off today and all the windows thrown wide open to capture this first gasp of Spring. Mellow tunes seemed to fit the mood, so I loaded up a few Travis albums to play on random shuffle. I've Nova Scotia style baked beans, made with some of the Jacob's Cattle beans I packmuled back from the East Coast last month, simmering in the oven. There's something about the smell of fresh baking in a clean kitchen on a Spring-like day that is so very soul satisfying.
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