Sunday Was a Really Good Day - Photos, Patio, Food and TV

Sunday was lovely. DH wanted me to cut some mats for some artwork, so he got a bit of an idea of what goes into cutting a piece. He's not as precise as I am, and will probably stick with some very basic stuff for the time being. But he's capable of cutting, if he's careful. The minute he isn't taking care of my equipment, however, is the minute he'll be banned from using it. 

We have a LOT of Hopi Katchina sculptures at 
the shop. They don't ship well - if we decide to consign 
these, we'll have to drive them down to Santa Fe. 
Still, we need photos of all of them anyway, so 
he's started in on that task. He brought three boxes 
of them home with him on Saturday night. 

DH spent at least an hour photographing katchina sculptures from the shop. We're going to probably consign a lot of them, but need photos before offering them to the auction house. They're so fragile, however, it's one of those things we'd have to physically drive down to them, rather than ship. 

This particular meal is turning into one of my favorite 
things to cook. It's really minimal work until the final 
30 minutes where you're basting every five minutes. Except 
for that, it's about as easy as it comes. 

Last night's dinner was one of my newer favorites - "Balsamic Brown Sugar Glazed Pork Roast in the Slow Cooker". Of course, many of you know that sugar isn't one of my things, but there's a lovely coconut brown sugar that I use often in my recipes, and it's great in this one as well. It's about as easy as possible - the slow cooker does most of the work. Then you heat the oven super hot (450 F) and start basting the pork roast with a sauce of brown sugar, water, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar. It's the perfect meld of flavors, and ends up making a sticky crust that's simply delicious. I give it 5 stars. 

DH and I both really enjoy watching "Patience" on 
PBS - a new series this year featuring an autistic 
main character who works in the records department 
of the police department but ends up working with 
a detective there whose son also is (possibly) on the 
spectrum. Although the show has been criticized as 
not showing autism correctly, I think it actually does 
a great job at showing just one person on the spectrum. 
Everyone is different, however. This is only a single 
character who is autistic. 

We ended the night watching two of our favorites on PBS - "Grantchester" and "Patience" (our newest favorite show). It topped off an almost perfect day. We didn't get quite as much done with the mat cutter as he wanted, but he has a better idea of what goes into it as well, so that was a win. Plus we had patio time to watch our hawk watch us - LOL. I hope all of you had a great weekend as well. I'll be back tomorrow. Slava Ukraini.