by CJ | Nov 25, 2014 | Journal
Laying in supplies. And a couple of pies. We start our Christmas decorating on Thanksgiving Day, so I’m not cooking. Bought the pies, boxed stuffing, etc, and we’ll just get along ok. Christmas, now, we’ll unbend and maybe actually cook. Granted we...
by CJ | Nov 20, 2014 | Journal
Not violently allergic, but there’s a reason, apparently, why I always get a little sick on Thanksgiving and don’t feel well for a few days—if I eat turkey. They disguise it. I can usually detect it: turkey pastrami and lunch meat to me has a very...
by CJ | Nov 20, 2014 | Journal
Not violently allergic, but there’s a reason, apparently, why I always get a little sick on Thanksgiving and don’t feel well for a few days—if I eat turkey. They disguise it. I can usually detect it: turkey pastrami and lunch meat to me has a very...
by CJ | Nov 20, 2014 | Journal
I love snow. It’s particularly nice when I don’t have to drive in it—we’re well-stocked: I did my grocery run yesterday—but it’s just sifting down like fine powder. Not uncommon for us. They only forecast half an inch, but I think...
by CJ | Nov 20, 2014 | Journal
I love snow. It’s particularly nice when I don’t have to drive in it—we’re well-stocked: I did my grocery run yesterday—but it’s just sifting down like fine powder. Not uncommon for us. They only forecast half an inch, but I think...
by CJ | Nov 18, 2014 | Journal
In a sauce pan, heat butter (amount your choice—flour should be equal). This makes a roux, or a thickening base for a sauce. Pronounced rue. Cook it gently til slightly brown and until it doesn’t taste of raw flour. Then you add: sufficient chicken broth...
by CJ | Nov 17, 2014 | Journal
Meaning, by Wednesday, we have water in the forecast, but what form it will come in—may change by the hour. It will hover just at freezing, then below freezing, so back and forth—rain, ice, snow. Our city has a city-wide race—which is a race, for...
by CJ | Nov 12, 2014 | Journal
And it sings. Who’d have thought a comet would sing.
by CJ | Nov 10, 2014 | Journal
Ever specified a last name for any of the kids? I think it’s high time they had one. Gene. Artur. Irene. And Bjorn, who didn’t get to come.
by CJ | Nov 9, 2014 | Journal
And Jane and I bestirred ourselves and started prepping. We’re at 50 degrees today. We’ll be in the 30’s tonight, but tomorrow, it doesn’t warm up. We have a high of 20-something and several days of nights in the teens. Jane’s working on...
by CJ | Nov 5, 2014 | Journal
People don’t realize how much Jane is involved in the writing of these books. In this case she dropped her own writing, parked herself in a chair, and 48 hours later, including taking the book to bed, she handed me a brilliantly-done critique, with line notes...
by CJ | Nov 2, 2014 | Journal
My clock says 8:50 and my computer says 7:55. D’ya think? I don’t think the DST change can account for the five minutes. 😉 I really don’t mind it at all. Up here in the northern latitudes, with greatly diminished daylight, it gets to where, by winter...
