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@hollydolly, bacon & ketchup? Interesting. In the US, a bacon sandwich would generally be slathered with mayonnaise.
Bacon, lettuce and tomato with mayo on toast is a classic American diner sandwich.
No a bacon sandwich here ( or butty as they call it in the north of England).. is almost always accompanied by ketchup. OTOH..a BLT may have Mayo on it but not always ( and a BLT is rarely served on toast)
 

About the bacon, when I visited England, I found that what the English call bacon is what most Americans would call ham. It isn't well done and crispy, the way our bacon usually is. Although I can't imagine eating ham with ketchup either. I'd still use mayonaisse, or maybe mustard.

Our weather this whole week has been absolutely gorgeous, enough to make us stop complaining about what it's been like all summer. It's sunny, slightly breezy, the air feels fresh and clean, temperatures in the high 60's. Doesn't get much better than that. Everybody is outside, walking around with their masks on.
 
About the bacon, when I visited England, I found that what the English call bacon is what most Americans would call ham. It isn't well done and crispy, the way our bacon usually is. Although I can't imagine eating ham with ketchup either. I'd still use mayonaisse, or maybe mustard.

Our weather this whole week has been absolutely gorgeous, enough to make us stop complaining about what it's been like all summer. It's sunny, slightly breezy, the air feels fresh and clean, temperatures in the high 60's. Doesn't get much better than that. Everybody is outside, walking around with their masks on.
we have several types of bacon... streaky bacon are thin fatty strips that when cooked become crispy and are the type that I see being used when watching and American cookery show . so I presume that's what you mean by American bacon.. but it's popular here too..
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... fried.. or grilled..
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In restaurants and cafes.. ''Back bacon'' is more commonly used.. which looks like this... and when fried or grilled doesn't become crispy... it comes in smoked or unsmoked versions as does the streaky

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When I went on my early walk this morning around 6:30,to buy Bflo News was 42,wore yellow reflector vest,jacket with gloves.When I came back,watered the plants in the community garden
After breakfast,I strolled over to close friends Marcia&Dave's house.I emailed Marcia yesterday asking if she would be home this morning for weekly chat.When I got there,knocked on door walked in wearing my mask{as I always do}.My 'buddy boy' family dog'Aker' knew it was me,wagged his tail got excited knowing we taking him on his 1st walk of the day
It was 50,with the sun out felt warmer,we went couple of blocks.When we got back,he got his treat,Marcia&I sat on the porch talking.Dave was in the living room working on the crossword puzzle,then left to go on his 4 mile walk.We went back inside,then I bent down to give 'bb' a goodbye hug,he licked my nose,made my day
I was planning on going for afternoon walk,but the weather turned cloudy didn't feel up to it.
I finished my book,there's always tomorrow to go on the walks
 
My early morning walk around 6:45,walked once around the apt complex, watered the plants/flowers in our community garden,walked up 3 flights of stairs to my apt
After breakfast,took my long walk of the day 6 blocks to a grocery store,Price Rite,needed a couple of items,waited 5 min for the bus,perfect timing
I'll probably take an afternoon walk after lunch before it gets too windy ,or else I'll get sidetracked doing something else which happens quite often
 
This is a carriage house that is on the property. I'm currently putting drainage tile and preparing the driveway to it.
Inside the carriage house I have a woodworking shop where I'm cutting/machining pickets to restore the porch back to original. It was 39 degrees here this morning when I started. Inside the carriage house also is a very old wood burning cook stove. It has four plates on top for pots, an oven and a water tank on the side for cooking. I started the stove with some wood scraps and 1 piece of oak fire wood. In 45 minutes it was so hot inside I had carriage doors, the side door and all the windows open. It must have been 90 degrees in there. I went outside and worked on the driveway!
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Spent the whole day today.. fetching and carrying.. and driving between towns

Took a whole load of donations to one of the few charity shops which are still accepting donations..which meant going quite far out of my way to do that in a town which has stopped all roadside parking ( due to the pandemic , apparently ?:unsure:).. and with little nearby parking available made it difficult to carry the stuff to the shop...anyway after that had to drive to a town 20 miles away to get the recycling centre to empty a carload of good quality furniture and some good wood there.

Stopped off at the pub in yet another town which has changed the whole way of service due to the pandemic.. no-one is allowed anywhere near the bar to order, even a drink ( this is after doing the track and trace at the door) .. have to order using the app on the phone from the table.. .. where we had lunch and a drink, before stepping out in torrential rain..

Then to the supermarket in yet another town where it looked like people have panicked with all the talk of potential lockdown again in days.. and had stripped the shelves reminiscent of the summer lockdown... no pasta.. no sauces.. all the basics gone.. fortunately I'd only gone for specific items and wasn't too inconvenienced by the locusts before me...
Home , washing on, food put away., chat to the young male neighbour next door whose recently split from his wife, who asked me to remind his children that Daddy still loves them ( sad)... and now I'm sitting here at 8 pm exhausted :D
 
Update - I did my invoicing. Then went outside with hubby to do a little pool maintenance. While standing on the shallow end steps I lost my balance and fell in. LOL Lucky for me the pool is still 85 degrees and I had nothing in my pockets that would get damaged by water.
It was an enjoyable little accident. :cool::love:
 
I went on my early walk around 6:15am to buy USA Today,came back watered the plants/flowers in our garden 10 mins later it started to rain,oh well
This morning,I plan to wash the furniture in my living/bedrm with Murphy's Oil Soap.I'm tried of looking at the dust.I'll try to take an afternoon walk if the rain stops,not too windy
 
I am having my coffee now. Then will get started on a pile of papers that have accumulated on the file cabinet. Probably just doing my regular household chores and working on editing photos for my blog. I might work on Ancestry for a bit.
 
I've been sorting and packing odds and ends for the thrift shop.

Now it's time to start lugging them to the car 12 trips should do it.

I'll deliver them tomorrow morning when I'm out running errands.

I'm making progress, I've cleaned out two double closets to the point where you can open the door without getting hurt.

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