Whittingstall – so it starts with a “W”, just like What’s his face. Of River Cottage fame. I’ve always thought of him as a UK D.I.Y. hipster, but looks like River Cottage has actually evolved into an empire – they call it River Cottage H.Q. “the base of operations for a cookery/food training centre from chef […]
With very few pictures. Monday we had leftover lasagna, with salad & garlic toast on the no knead bread I made Saturday. I tried to go easy on the lasagna and eat a lot of salad, but Rach came back with Trader Joe’s chocolate and I had to have some. She quoted one her grandmas […]
The public schools already long-seeming Christmas break because of the way the holidays fell got extended by two days due to extreme cold. Today, Wednesday, was the kids’ first day back. At work, everyone was saying, “oh I just want to get back to normal”. Somebody on facebook said today was her first alarm […]
This Veteran’s day marks the Monday after a whole weekend without blogging for me. Others may mourn fallen soldiers; I mourn having free time. Friday we went to Toni’s cross-country banquet. It was at a sports bar over by the Coliseum. It lasted forever, because all the girls had silly presents for each other. On […]
– even faster than usual. The government is shutdown; the debt ceiling is looming – and what’s that going to do to my stock portfolio!??; my #1 son that I sent off to grad school so proudly barely a month ago is not too happy there; they’re predicting huge thunderstorms, unusual for October, and I […]
Welp, it’s another of those weeks, when I haven’t written from Sunday to Friday – tho I actually started this post Thursday, and I know I won’t finish it till Saturday. Cooking-wise it hasn’t been too unusual – couple of nights when I had dinner all by myself, once we went out, and Friday I […]