If birds have been around 150 million years, then why can't one find its way out of the shop with all the doors and windows open? They fly up, when there's a roof up there.
Sunday, March 30, 2014
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Monday, March 3, 2014
Cooking and Planning in My Head
Trying to make sense out of stacks of recipe clippings, I am reusing a file folder from school planning that says "Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals" and another one that says "Fish and Amphibians". Ordinarily, I do not cook many reptiles or amphibians.
There will be another snow day tomorrow, so maybe I can get more organization to this. Some of these things defy classification, though. Do pita chips go under bread or party food, or what? I'd like to make a data base, so that I could pull up any recipe that has tomatillos or bok chois, for example, when those things are in season. The expenditure of time does not really match the amount of time I spend cooking, though.
There will be another snow day tomorrow, so maybe I can get more organization to this. Some of these things defy classification, though. Do pita chips go under bread or party food, or what? I'd like to make a data base, so that I could pull up any recipe that has tomatillos or bok chois, for example, when those things are in season. The expenditure of time does not really match the amount of time I spend cooking, though.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Two Escapist Mystery Novel Series
My new favorite author for light reading is Kerry Greenwood. She has two series heroines, Phryne Fisher and Corinna Chapman. We discovered The Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries on NetFlix. Set in the twenties in Australia, the stories are good. Our Miss Fisher is dauntless and charming. The clothes and cars are spectacular. We watched them all, twice. It's been a long winter. I miss Inspector Lewis. I just finished reading the first book in the series, Cocaine Blues. I found it a good match for the t.v. version of that story, which is nice. I can accept the changes.
The second series interested me because the heroine reminded me of the fantasy life of a former friend. Ms Chapman has a wonderful apartment and bakery arrangement, and cats. The proximity of the cats to the food is off-putting to me, I wouldn't eat there, ICK! I would like to live in that apartment building with the stores downstairs, although I can't quite believe the description of the tile work. It's nice to see a woman who is not tiny and has romance in her life. This is set in modern times, and probably that bakery making it financially is as unlikely as the murder sleuthing story, but we don't read these things for money tips.
Ms Greenwood is a nice break from the New York magazine writers I usually end up with. I plan to read at least the second in each series.
The second series interested me because the heroine reminded me of the fantasy life of a former friend. Ms Chapman has a wonderful apartment and bakery arrangement, and cats. The proximity of the cats to the food is off-putting to me, I wouldn't eat there, ICK! I would like to live in that apartment building with the stores downstairs, although I can't quite believe the description of the tile work. It's nice to see a woman who is not tiny and has romance in her life. This is set in modern times, and probably that bakery making it financially is as unlikely as the murder sleuthing story, but we don't read these things for money tips.
Ms Greenwood is a nice break from the New York magazine writers I usually end up with. I plan to read at least the second in each series.
Monday, January 6, 2014
Happy New Year
I'm mostly saving my spot here.
I just finished reading To Be Sung Under Water, which is kind of like The Bridges of Madison County, in a way. I'm stuck in the house because of the weather. I had an easy sewing project that would have taken some of this time up, but I need a different color of thread for top stitching before I can progress. So I read this sad story straight through, and it left me feeling pensive. Housework or the treadmill would probably level me back out, but I'm not ready for that yet. The story line shifts between coming of age and midlife crisis. It's pretty good writing and the story moves along. It's about regrets, which of course everybody has, and thinks what ifs, but I cannot believe that the main character would have been happier if she had married that first guy.
I just finished reading To Be Sung Under Water, which is kind of like The Bridges of Madison County, in a way. I'm stuck in the house because of the weather. I had an easy sewing project that would have taken some of this time up, but I need a different color of thread for top stitching before I can progress. So I read this sad story straight through, and it left me feeling pensive. Housework or the treadmill would probably level me back out, but I'm not ready for that yet. The story line shifts between coming of age and midlife crisis. It's pretty good writing and the story moves along. It's about regrets, which of course everybody has, and thinks what ifs, but I cannot believe that the main character would have been happier if she had married that first guy.
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