Here's another post of various and odd topics.
- Something has been raiding our bird-feeders lately and last night I saw the culprit(s)! Three humongous raccoons! Humongous! Maybe the raccoons should go on the South Beach Diet and not eat quite so much whole grain birdseed and suet.....
- I must say that the black raspberries gracing my oatmeal this morning are delicious and were sourced not more than a quarter-mile from my kitchen.
- We had a nice birthday celebration and dinner for my mom, about two weeks ago. The top favorite foods from the meal were the cherry with almond crust tart and a wheat berry with walnuts and dates salad. The recipes for the tart crust and wheat berry salad were both from Martha Stewart's Living magazine.
- Yeah, Living started mysteriously showing up after DH ordered a gift for me from Gardeners' Supply. I used to take the magazine about four or five years ago. I had found it a bit tiresome then but it seems a bit refreshed. The recipes were always good....and still are.
- There's been a bit of knitting lately but no finished objects. I have given Icarus another go, the socks are still growing, and a scarf in progress that I re-found have all had some hands-on the past two weeks.
- I have been spinning, but again.......
- Spinning group was this past Monday. I really enjoy it and hope it is still going when I stop traveling all over for my job. Someday.
- I must say that I really enjoy my current job and I'm very, very thankful to have it.
- Last weekend, we left the house about 10 AM to visit with my DMIL and family in Watertown. We came back to a cold and dark house at 6 PM. o.O None of the neighbors' houses were dark. Apparently some fuse or such had blown on the line to the house......at about 10:45 AM.
- I need more candles. Really. This test of our disaster recovery plan showed a few holes in my supplies.
- I also could use one of those battery-powered book-lights.
- And a generator.
- We received some light snow last night and there is still a bit falling this morning.
- The daytime varmints, squirrels, are raiding what remains in the feeders right now, all six of them. Six squirrels, that is......
The remains of the cherry tart with my DU's hand ready to reach in and save another crumb.
Happy Saturday!
Mmmmm, TAUNTING me with that cherry tart! (Though I totally blew my diet last night with a humongous piece of chocolate cake, which I finished -- shhhhh -- for breakfast this morning.) :@)
Posted by: Norma | Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 09:11 AM
Ooh, that looks delicious!!
Posted by: Vicki | Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 09:52 AM
You posted that photo somewhere else and I'd thought (I either wasn't reading cuz I was drooling on the pic or you didn't say what it was) it was a cherry pizza. lol
Your Saturday bits sound lovely. I think you should open a retreat like Squish is, and we'll all come pick black raspberries for you and knit and spin together... sigh...
(oh yeah, and update the date on your copyright notice...)
Posted by: Kitten | Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 10:25 AM
I'm with you on the generator. :D It's supposed to snow again on Tuesday here. blech. I have the "in home" emergency kit well stocked. One of my things, but I realized during the tornado scare that my "get the heck out of dodge kit" was not so well prepared. I'm re-instituting the earthquake protocols. :D
Posted by: Squishy | Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 11:44 AM
Not surprisingly, the raccoons in Florida are a lot thinner than the ones in MN and WI; I think ours have to maintain an extra layer of blubber to make it through the winter. Back in the year or three that I subscribed to MLLiving, I was most fascinated by the splendid photography. Note to self: try to emulate that style in own blog photos.
Posted by: kmkat | Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 12:37 PM
Miners headlamp. I'm just saying. ;^)
The tart looks lovely... and I don't care for cherries. *L*
What are you spinning? What are you spinning it on? Wanna come over and lube my wheel?
xo
Posted by: Cookie | Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 01:11 PM
Nice bits.
I have your raccoons' cousins here. They love cat food if you run out of bird seed to feed them. :-)
Posted by: Diane | Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 05:00 PM
Definitely need to update the disaster recovery plan - having a generator is a nice fringe benefit of DH's machine shop here ;)
Cherry tart looks fantastically yummy!!!
Posted by: Joy | Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 09:09 PM
The tart is just lovely.
The problem w/ Living is that it always makes me feel like such a loser. That's true of most pretty magazines, though, since I don't live in a photo shoot!
More snow on the way - duck and cover!
xo
Posted by: Nora | Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 06:16 AM
Yum!
Candles and peanut butter. The stuff of emergency supplies.
Posted by: Carrie K | Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 11:25 PM
Mmmm... cherry tart...
An LED headlamp works dandy for reading and knitting.
Posted by: gayle | Wednesday, February 24, 2010 at 07:26 AM