In my last post I mentioned some of my recent cooking near misses, slimy, smelly broccoli; bitter squash; elderly peppers. I’ve continued having things go awry in the kitchen, not disasters that go straight into compost, more like disappointments. Like this leek and squash galette I made the other day, where I got the bottom … [Read more…]
For the last two weeks, I’ve been thinking, “well I’ll get to that after the election” – projects, calling friends, etc., etc. As you can tell from my prior somewhat whiny post (OK, OK, definitely whiny) things have been really busy. And stressful. So now it’s after the election, well after, since it’s the Saturday … [Read more…]
So since we’ve been back from Yorkshire, I haven’t had a single day with nothing on the calendar. There’s been: UW-Libraries Friend’s Book sale – that was my Weds. and Saturday right after we got back; On the first Friday after getting back, I had Jasper and we went to the park after music class … [Read more…]
We’ve been home something like 2 days now, it’s Friday morning and we got back Tuesday night, so I’m thinking I better write down a few more thoughts about the trip before I forget. And, now that we’re back, we’re tumbled into fall busy-ness, like the UW-Libraries book sale where I volunteer, and the last … [Read more…]
Right, so we left off on the way from Kirkby-Stephen to Brough, and touristing at Brough castle, that was Thursday. It was the first day we shortened by changing a taxi ride (well not counting our turned around day Wednesday), by not getting driven back to Pendragon Castle and just walking straight to Brough. We … [Read more…]
So, like I said, the first day, Skipton to Grassington, took a lot longer than we thought it would. The guidebook said it’d be 7 hours and we took 9. We got briefly lost in a hay field, but we’re sure that didn’t lose us much time. Mostly I think it was a bit rougher … [Read more…]
The Van Gogh show was called poets and lovers and the first two pictures are the poet and the lover, although I don’t recall which is which. The Hockney show was Hockney and Piero (della Fencesca) and it kind of looked back at Hockney’s works and others in the collection, and a show Hockney was … [Read more…]
So the Willy Street Fair was partially rained out and definitely the reduced edition. Like only one stage instead of three and no parade. So I didn’t see nearly the number of people I was wishing for. After I asked Mark for us not to leave for our Yorkshire Dales walking trip until after the … [Read more…]
And to use up local veggies & other ingredients. Recently I feel like I’ve been keeping the fridge emptier, buying smaller amounts, not having too many leftovers, trying out recipes that I’m interested in, making food that pleases me, and Mark will eat. Like that cookbook I have, Small Victories. ‘Course, no CSA this year … [Read more…]
We went on a quick 4-day getaway to Door County. I was stressed about going (I know unseemly in a retired person, but still) but as the trip got closer and I got more things settled, like combo kitty care with the kids up the street and their dad taking care of the orange kitties … [Read more…]