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Are these not lovely? They are from Nigella Lawson’s line. I would like her mixing bowls as well, pretty please.
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Still snowing….
Battening down the surrounding trees…
Well hopefully anyway. We are due for a windstorm and I don’t know if you were hanging around with me 2 years ago (on my old defunct blog), but we had a terrible windstorm right before Christmas that knocked power out all over the area for days, as in 9 days for us, more or less for others. So I sit here wearily eying the trees out back. We had the scary leaning trees taken down, but somehow that only comforts me slightly. One glimmer of hope is how very wrong our weather forecasters seem to be around here. I have a bunch of family coming in the next few days too…sigh. I wouldn’t trade the trees, but I sure wish they would stay put….
day 28 ~ fortune telling
Yesterday was lovely. I made everything over a 3 day period so it really left less mess and most importantly less food to make all at once. I neglected to take a picture, but rest assured it was all delicious.
My long time friend spent the day with us and brought her very mysterious Russian Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards. Well maybe the word mysterious isn’t accurate, but it conveys a sense of eeriness, no? Good then. So your supposed to shuffle them, feel them, caress them, and generally connect with them before laying them out which proved about impossible for me. That said, the first try we scrapped because it was just so ridiculously inaccurate (not quite sure what I was expecting but it really felt completely wrong). So she had me shuffle again with a gentle reminder to focus on the cards, so I tried, and the next reading was easier to make connections with. Funniest was that the last one we read actually was the apple card which was in relation to a shitty sales person experience…and I found it odd because earlier in the day my Apple laptop literally flew out of my hands to its death…sigh. So that was weird. But FRICK! one card said someone was casing my home or going to harm me or BEWARE DANGER IS IMMINENT! what is even more crappy about that card is I drew it both times AND it was in the same direction and same place each time, pretty sure that happens NEVER. So if you are casing my house, WATCH OUT WE HAVE DANGEROUS TRANSFORMERS, with dangerous HOTTERS (as Owen calls them) that will HURT YOU. Anyway these are pretty, when laid out they look like a lovely quilt, see:
I couldn’t get the flash just right, but hopefully you get the idea. And no! the evening did not slip into raising demons and partying with vampires, however it might have involved eye of newt soup, maybe.
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day 19 ~ because it’s the anniversary…
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
I can remember the 1st time the Gettysburg Address registered with me, it was my 10th grade government class and we listened to it on record. The record was scratchy from years of being played, the sounds filling the room with a sense of nostalgia. I remember the sound of the arm pulling itself off the record and laboriously returning to its home, the room was heavy with silence, it was as if we all “got it” in that one moment. The teacher pulled her head up and said “well, OK…” and anything said after that escapes me.
I can’t say I’m much of a deep thinker, but considering I was only interested in how I could finagle more black into my wardrobe in the 10th grade I think it’s safe to say I was more of a surface thinker then. But that speech spoke to me of change then, and still does today. That said, it holds some sort of historic meaning to me.
*I really don’t want anyone to get all women’s right-y on me with the “… all men are created equal” part, personally I try to keep it in context with the time period and not get my girly panties up in a bunch, ;)
day 15 ~ can’t quit now
I’m going to finish this NoBlo crap if it kills me! And what the hell? I received one recipe for the contest? Either I am giving away a shittacular prize, or you all are too lazy to enter! Well fine, less for me to do (insert sticking my tongue out here). Seeing as I don’t have it in me to punish anyone by canceling the giveaway all-together, I’ll give something away at some point near the end of the month.
Didn’t get much done in the kitchen today so I’ll just show off my Pyrex and the makings of butternut squash jalapeno burritos….
Do yourself a favor and try to score one of these old split casserole dishes. Mine came from Ebay, but I have seen them in second hand stores as well.
