There is an interesting ‘need’ for bacon these days. It’s sold everywhere and it’s in everything. Really, is that necessary? Do people realize what they’re putting in their bodies?

At any rate, since we don’t eat little piggies or their parts, but do enjoy a good toasted sandwich, we needed an alternative to the traditional BLT. Enter: The ALT! Avocado is great substitute for the ‘fatty’ ingredient in a regular BLT, but with added nutrition and a far better taste. But that’s not the only great substitute! Since our garden was kind enough to provide swish chard, we switched out the lettuce and had a great pairing of creamy and bitter. Add thick sliced of fresh tomato and you’ll be dancing on your counter. We served ours with raw string beans instead of fries and were feelin’ pretty spoiled. Mmm!

This week’s Illustration Friday prompt was ‘layers’…first two things to pot into my mind: layer cake and caked on layers of make-up. So I took a page out of Little Feat‘s book and made a dolled up layer cake. ;-)

Just passing along a beautiful and important message. The images in this video are just so stirring.

Matt made pancakes the other morning…in an attempt to make a smiley face, he made the spitting image of Cookie Monster! Cookie is my favorite Sesame Street Muppet, by the way. Anyway, I wanted to share a smile:

Lisa was glad she had a warm sweater to walk to school in…February was a very cold month!