So my day so far: Wake up. Watch a little bit of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” with the husband. Take Max for a nice 30-minute walk. Shower. Knit a few lines of the baby blanket I’m planning for little winklevoss. Talk to sis on the phone for 20 minutes. Go with the husband to Specialty’s Cafe for an egg sandwich. Walk around U-Village a little. Come home. Pick up Max and take him to PetDaddy for a bath. Get soaked bathing Max. Come back home. Walk to store to pick up free bag of candy and trick or treat bag, and pumpkin. Come home. Carve pumpkin. Have a snack. Read latest issue of “The New Yorker” (specifically the article on Marlon Brando but oddly enough it’s one of the few pieces not on the Web site). Decide to bake cookies. Bake cookies. Take pictures of cookies and jack ‘o’ lantern. Upload pics and update rowing Web site. Update blog. When I’m done with this, I’m going to hit the knitting again. I’m nearly halfway done and will happily post the pics when it’s complete.

Meanwhile, here are the ginger snaps I baked a couple of hours ago. I said to the husband, “I’m baking ginger snaps.”

“Oh. But I really like chocolate-chip cookies.”

“Do you want to walk to the store and buy some chocolate chips?”

“No.”

“Ok then. I’m going to bake ginger snaps.”

Ginger snaps. mmmm. Ginger-y. And snappy!

It’s always a treat to bake something with ingredients in the house. Know what I mean?