For the past month, I’ve been getting the most wonderful blackberries at the farmers’ market. Supermarket blackberries aren’t bad, but these are sweeter and more flavorful. I’ve been gorging myself on berries and we’ve had so many that I’ve been trying to find new things to do with them. One can add them to salads…
Greetings from a small island off the coast of Maine, my family’s Summer Vacation 2010. I knew the island would be small and, well, quaint, but I wasn’t quite prepared for it. Directional signs follow the lines of, “Keep right past the Church, walk for 3 more minutes.” There’s one general store and one restaurant,…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZMZJhO-SsM I don’t know what it is about the Food Network’s Chopped, but its grown on me over the last year. I’m fascinated by what strange combinations of mystery ingredients will be pulled from the baskets for each of the rounds. This clip is from one of the show’s classic final rounds, in which the…
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZV92_a-jtw Thoughts: 1. Adorable. 2. What the hell is that carpet made out of? Coral reef? 3. SO FREAKING ADORABLE.
I see in the Toronto Star that the city council has decided to create two pedestrian zones, the first two of their kind in the big T.O. Never mind that they’re miniscule; never mind that they’re both (I think) in the heart of the university core, and therefore practically pedestrian anyway – it’s a step…
We have a new addition to our family – a little black lab named Millie. I say she’s little, but she’s already reached 34 pounds at 3 1/2 months of age. She’s precious and smart and loves to play. We waited a long time to add a new dog to the family. Two years ago…
Okay, so I’ll try to keep the gloating to a minimum. What an afternoon that was! Matches between Germany and England are always something else, and this surely didn’t disappoint! All goals (including the one that wasn’t given) were utterly brilliant, so here they are for you to enjoy once more: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbRao2n0PsQ&annotation_id=annotation_148606&feature=iv – Rike Horstmann
For the last month, we’ve had a real rash of stormy weather. No, not that lovely old song, but real stormy weather. Now I don’t mean gentle rain or light breezes. I mean torrential downpours, terrifying lightning and thunder, and worst of all tornado watches, warnings, and actual touchdowns. In the past week we’ve had…
My kitchen is pretty well stocked of small appliances. We have a toaster, a water heater, and a Magic Bullet. We even have a mini-fridge, a left-over of dormitory living. What we don’t have is a microwave. When we first moved in to our new apartment about a month and a half ago, it was…
I was going to write about the romance of Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden and Daniel Westling, whom she met when she enroled at the gym he owned, in the style of a romance novel blurb, but it sounded so unbelievably tacky that I pressed “delete”.
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