Browning what will eventually be smothered potatoes: 

Impulse buy from the wine store. We’ve had sparkling reds before but this one has a lot of body: 

So much body that you only really see the effervescence when initially poured: 

Finishing the smothered potatoes - liquid added & lid on: 

Ham (pan cooked with bacon grease no less), smothered potatoes, scrambled eggs & homegrown tomatoes (Harvested green in November & just now getting ripe for consumption): 

We picked this Christmas wreath up at an estate sale today: 

We also picked up a wreath hanger and some Cousances enameled steel cookware. Fifty bucks for 3 pieces may seem like a lot but that one 10 1/4″ skillet will run you around one hundred bucks new from Le Creuset who bought Cousances in 1957. That is today’s backyard harvest in the pans: