Culminating in my mother’s and Eustace Tilley’s 90th birthdays. Eustace, the fictional dandy who was on the first New Yorker magazine cover, and my mom both arrived around February 22, 1925. It used to be George Washington’s birthday, too, but now we have President’s Day. I left off with pumpkin stuff and soup, last Saturday. […]
So this morning we slept in. It’s still black dark at 7:00 AM – can’t wait for daylight savings to end, but I guess it’s only another week. I thought I’d be able to get a little work in before breakfast but by the time I fed the cats, and brought in the newspapers, and […]
I made leek tart for brunch today – more or less this Molly Wizenberg recipe; I, as always, used my own pie dough recipe: For single crust: 1 1/2 cups flour pinch salt (or use salted butter) scant TBLS sugar 8 TBLS (1 stick) unsalted butter 1 TBLS vegetable shortening 3 – 4 TBLS […]
Big batch of waffles – John & Megan, Hannah & Corey, me & Rach all here for Sunday brekkie Went for a pedi Recorded a lecture for class Part two Made creamy rice pudding
Our AFS student Toni stayed a little longer than the rest of this school year’s students, because her family – mom, dad, and little sister – came to pick her up and now they’re traveling in the US for about 2 weeks. Even though Toni is leaving, we are now entering into a period of […]
I took Friday off because I had had two days in the prior week when I worked until 9:00 PM (even though I did work at home on Monday). On Wednesday I had to chair a pretty important meeting. On Thursday morning, I hoped to finish all the emails I had to send to place […]
My spring break week wasn’t much of a break. Monday was my first day back after PLA. Tuesday I had to do a webinar – and it was John’s birthday. Wednesday I had to appear in court for my failure to remove snow ticket. Thursday I had two meetings – both of groups that I […]
Saturday morning Mark and I walked downtown to go to the indoor farmers market. Because we were out before 9:00 AM on a Saturday, we got to see a wonderful example of our drinking culture here in WI – a pile of puke on a snow bank with the eyeglasses fallen off the face and […]
In the past I’ve ranted about how I don’t really like clafouti. No matter how carefully I bake it, it has a tendency to be rubbery, at least made with any other fruit besides apples. There’s an apple clafouti recipe from Saveur that I used to make for breakfast when the John & Al lived […]