After you make your bed, dress, and smile to face the day, approach the kitchen, the most important room in your home. Unlike the verse to the song, I do trust that day. It is the beginning of another week. Time to live my life and experience new things. Learning is always a foremost plan. When we stop learning, we stop living. That includes reading, exploring new cultures, absorbing the miracles of nature, as well as testing my skills in the kitchen and the studio. October is the time when the leaves fall, the flowers and garden plants are wrapping up their legacy. There are outdoor tasks that are more or less time sensitive. I do not want to be bringing the houseplants indoors while snow is falling, or pulling expired tomato plants in a biting wind. That said, we are talking about Mondays. This is always a busy day for me because it is Kitchen Day! Our trash pick-up is Tuesday morning so I need to be certain that everything is gathered, including the recycled items, ...