The Perfect Day (Photo Challenge: Achievement)

When I woke up yesterday, I knew it was going to be perfect. For one, I’d just finished getting an entire eight hours of sleep after accumulating a little less than that the two previous nights. I slept like the dead despite the fact that we now have a German Shorthaired Pointer in our bed because he thinks it’s too cold to snooze outside.

Meet Cleve. He’s so shy…

So, when I woke refreshed, I had baking, cooking and writing on the brain. Just the notion of puttering around the house for an entire day put a huge smile on my face. The plan was to make two pots of soup, bake something pumpkin and then spend the rest of the afternoon at a desk finishing my 50K manuscript–only 12K to go!

By the time I’d chopped up an onion and roasted the baby Idaho blue and red potatoes, I was completely in heaven and…