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Saturday, August 21, 2010

get pickled!

There is a jar in the fridge with one last pickle in it. It is a great pickle, a really tasty pickle... and soon it will be gone and the jar will sit there half-full with the pickle jiuce of that really tasty pickle. Throw it down the sink? No way! Maybe I will slice some little pickling cukes into it... or slice some sweet onion in big fat rings... or maybe dump in a bag of cabbage shredded for cole slaw... And then set it back in the fridge for a few days... and then use those tasty wonderful... Sign in to see full entry.

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Waffle!

I love a good waffle! I used to love em for how much buttery and real maple syrup they could carry to my mouth, but now... health is a larger issue, and flavor beyond the buttery mapley goodness, as well. So now... to the regular scratch recipe using whole grain flour, try adding half a cup of almond meal--easy to make if you have a blender-- to the cup of flour. Or try pecan meal... or walnut... whatever you like! It is perfect for flavor without adding 'interruptions' as my kids always... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 16, 2010

cooking again...

Literally and figuratively! Dinner tonight started as frozen chicken 'tenders' seared with onions and peppers, green and orange, with a bit of olive oil, then some Newman's Light Lime dressing poured over the top, and a long low simmer... a dash of pink wine (too sweet to drink) and some soy sauce, into the marinade now flavor-enhanced with the cooking chicken, onions and peppers, then thickened up a little with cornstarch. I threw in some prepped veggies that were going to go rotten or... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Where have I been?

Well... no where in particular... in a kind of doldrums here on the Blogit sea, drifting off on faint currents, looking up and seeing, oh, I've gone invisible... I still come by and read here and there... sometimes invisibly, when I find nothing to put into words. I've been writing a lot of dialog and character writing, immersed in character personalities in other worlds. I've been taking my mental/emotional machete to this house and all that's in it, knowing the day is coming I must, MUST leave... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 26, 2010

Rodeo!

(Darson's post today and for the past several days, stimulated this http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Darson/ ) While living with my grandparents in California, from the time I was 3 to almost 6, the rodeo was an event every now and then that meant sitting down front in the grandstands, watching the events--I liked calf-roping best, as I recall. It also meant those perfect (today probably perfectly awful) hamburgers with ketchup and relish that were the consummate cuisine to my infant... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

News from the front.. at last!

"The troops are doing great. Good work with the locals and the district-level government, which is the point of us being there. We are getting more of the bad guys than they are of us, which isn't the main reason for being there but is part of the game." My friend in Afghanistan emailed, and I was online when it came in... my reply brought another reply back... I am more than a little cheered to have had some actual conversation, even if only for 15 minutes. I had not heard from him since March... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Disappointment...

Well. The Senegal trip is, at best, postponed. When I contacted the organizer recently, she told me, unhappily, someone else in line ahead of me has taken the last opening for it. I did not come up with the funds fast enough, I surmise. Well, there is next year, January of 2012. As promised to all who contributed toward my trip there, all the monies you sent will be forwarded directly to Friends of Gueoul, to support the girls and their scholarships. Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Sally's Garden--blooming still!

It was Sally that really got me started posting pictures, she so loves the flowers! For her, I set up a site in Cafepress called Sally's Garden, and every picture of flowers I have ever taken since has been in some part for her. I know this will not change... I am sure wherever Sally is, her Garden surrounds her, and every flower that has or ever will draw my eye or my lens, will forever bloom there. That which is beautiful does not die, it only passes into other loveliness... (anon) EDIT! happy... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

reprise and revise

AFTERMATH The impassioned moment's passed, The fight's gone out of me; tolerance and hope set in with a sigh and by-and-by this latest violence, outrage, assault against the heart and soul will pass-- and leave me living still and still possessed of most of what I had; Life goes on sublime, absurd, expects the future still makes plans invests and wanders down the middle course again somewhere between the hopeless and the glad. Disappointment gnaws away at faith. Perhaps, because our planet turns... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 3, 2010

a ramble in the woods of cyberworlds

Haven't been writing much of late... so many factors! but finally a poem emerged, first in a long while that wanted out so badly...! It is one of the expressions of deep stresses surfacing. Stressors can seem so small, so unimportant, so manageable... a little headache... a leaky roof, but only when it rains a lot... the rain itself... a draggedout chilly spring... a friend in a war zone, not heard from in over 2 months... For me, it is easy to escape the daily and long-term stressors by... Sign in to see full entry.

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