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Wave Without A Shore

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 get some of the...

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 bad flavor. You...

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 bad flavor. You...

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 we've already got that. Spokane...

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 we've already got that. Spokane...

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 (Swansons...

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 runners who...

And it sings. Who'd have thought a comet would sing.

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.

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 her book, and at a sticky...

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 and...

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 solstice, you...