@imallears Yeast is in short supply everywhere I thought, even on Amazon. It's in such short supply that the prices on Amazon are ridiculous. The King Arthur Flour site is not gouging but they are sold out of course. I did manage to find an expensive type on Amazon and paid at least three times the typical price but I really want to make pizza.

@funcountess The leaf season up here really is beautiful, with all of the sugar maples red and orange. When I came out of retirement, when my daughter started college, I was an inn manager at a local inn, The Bedford Village Inn. It is the nicest place in the Manchester area so we had many affluent guests in the fall from all over the country -- the "leaf peepers" is what New Englanders call them.

I was born just outside of Boston. Mass General is rated as the second best hospital in the country, to Mayo in MN being #1.

All aged cheeses are lactose-free. One way to determine if a cheese is lactose-free is to look at the sugar content. If there is no sugar there is no lactose -- lactose is a sugar. The only problem is that they can say lactose-free if there is just a trace per serving but often with cheeses you eat more than a serving so all of those traces can add up and cause a problem.

I love Amy's products too, they are usually very good quality and tasty. I didn't know they were made in Petaluma. We stayed there one night on our way into Sonoma wine country, back in the day when I could drink wine.

We have not yet ventured to do take-out.
My husband will move his dinner plate to the counter, just above the dish-washer. Does that count? He will vacuum and wash floors though, and make himself a sandwich for lunch. Unfortunately he is very spoiled.
JK