What are you doing this weekend?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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by going to the auction of a 40 acre farm near here. We can’t participate because our house in Roswell doesn’t even have an offer yet. The farm is valued at a mere $122K which is an out-right steal. If it sells for under $100K, my husband will probably burst into tears of frustration for missing out. I expect it will be interesting to see what sort of people show up and how much bidding rusted old plows get.
Roswell, New Mexico? I was there last summer.
we come in peace
Resistance is futile, baby.
out to dinner tonight with the kiddos(Fri night ritual), Sat. my son is taking me to see the Padres vs. Cubs. Torn about the game as we are diehard Cub fans being raised just north of Chicago but now being a San Diegan, love the Padre’s too. The new Petco Park here is unreal, very family friendly. sunday….ahhh just relax for sure. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Senate back in session next week. I am sure we will all have lots of work to do…lol.
Yup, Billy’s making a teck across the pond to attend a scientific conference (Billy’s a grad student) in Prague. After that, he is going to be spending three days by himself in Amsterdam, for fun.
Billy is very excited.
That you’re assuming a third-person persona, I think you’re going to be up to some mischief, BILLY!
rendez-vous with Bob Dole? Billy sounds like he’s already been spending too much time with him! (joke)
First weekend for a while without a program – and that feels great. If the weather is good, curly and I may enjoy Central Park – a mini-picnic & reading something not too strenuous.
Having such a leisurly weekend coming up, I should think of catching up on some back-log at work – but I have no problems resisting the urge.
Finally, hope to see some of you around here!
Have a good one!
Running errands on Saturday with hubby…then taking him out to dinner for his birthday (which was 2 days ago!)
Sunday – SF Kossacks meetup in San Mateo…looking forward to meeting like minded people in real life!
I know lots of DailyKos readers are migrating here – so I will blatantly plug the meet-up! 3pm-5pm in San Mateo…bring the kidlets and have some fun! Some are getting together afterward for beer at a local pub as a continuation!
More details here –
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SanFranciscoKossacks/
Come declare yourself as on part of the Frog Pond and welcome!
Well if the weather cooperates, I will be outside playing with my children, doing some weeding in my garden and spending lots of time with my wife. I am looking forward to having fresh vine ripe tomato’s very soon. I have some now that are the size of baseballs and just haven’t started turning red yet. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm and of course I have onions growing around my tomato’s so soon I should have some nice fresh white onions and some fresh vidalia’s.
The best part of my weekend’s are being able to spend all the time I want with my family, not having to get everyone around for bed, as I don’t get home from work until 7 pm CDT.
Where do you live??? Here in the heartland the tomatoes are just deciding whether they want to have flowers on them. We just bought the season’s first asparagus at the farmers market, and think maybe there will be strawberries in a week or two.
tomatoes and all the other winter veggie (yellow squash, cukes, beans, eggplant) crops were through three weeks ago. Too hot and humid now to grow anything but okra and Caribbean root (starch) veggies. We have to eat our strawberries in February.
Looking forward to mango and limes by end of the month. Hoping this year’s watermelons will be as good as last year’s. Think I’ll buy one this weekend.
I live near Lawrence, KS and planted my tomatoes and onion on the 8th of April. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm looking really really good from where I am sitting.
As part of my misspent youth, I worked in a diner cooking breakfasts for the teeming masses before school, so I have developed a habit of knocking out Sunday brunch for friends whereever I happen to be.
Got friends coming over for waffles with real Canadian maple syrup (I am really happy the the customs dogs are only trained for cocaine and talcum powder), a Mediterranean frittata, homemade cinnamon rolls, etc. Generous quantities of Irish coffee as well. If the weather cooperates, will have it on the balcony…
Wayward,
How can I get some of that maple syrup. The stuff they sell here in Kansas is watered down and can hardly be called real maple syrup.
There are several sites that will sell it over the web and ship it to you…a bit pricey, but what the heck..
I usually buy about 4 litre jugs when I am in the US, and bring them back in my luggage. Love that huge baggage allowance when flying out of the states…
Vermont still has some marvelous syrup, but unfortunately with warming global temps and the acid rain from all the coal fired power plants west of them, the maples are dying out in the American NorthEast. Pretty soon, there will only be canadian maple syrup to purchase. How sad, how despicable that the current administration cares so little for a true American industry that has survived for more than 300 yrs.
When my kids were small, I used to take them to farms where we would buy real maple syrup made on site. They never failed to stick their heads in the steam cloud above the vats as the sap was being boiled down, and then giggle all the way home about the funny things they could do with their hair…heh
It is hugely sad what has been done to our forests…sigh…
email me your address if you like and i’ll send you a couple cans. I live in Montreal. The stuff is everywhere. I even saw a stand in the metro (subway) yesterday.
subtropolis D O T zijn A T gmail DOT com
http://www.pennsylvaniamaplesyrup.com/
I grew up in maple syrup country in Salisbury, Pa. when I say this thread I checked and they are still producing and selling Pa. maple syrup.
The whole county (Somerset) has an annual maple festival, in one city in the county every year, I think it is still going on.
I have Many fond memories of maple syrup farms and hard maple candy. This is made by boiling down the syrup and then pouring a thin layer in a pie pan. This will harden to a hard tack which can then be cracked and eaten in delicious slivers and chunks. Many a day I ate some slivers on my way to school in the cold winter mornings and tried to keep the sticky stuff off my mittens.
your friend. Really.
Gozo is about 60 miles south of Sicily…. 😉
Me too. Really, really good friend.
from BT and dKos to visit my little part of the world, and I promise a Sunday brunch to all who take me up on it…
Prefer a table with a view? OK:
Ooooh, that view, with the glorious Mediterranean blue.
Lately, our maple syrup in northern New England has been coming from Canada. I have some called Camp. The label says it is in Citadelle, Plessisville, which I think is in the Eastern Townships, just north of Vermont.
Hot homemade cinnamon rolls are the best, with fresh cream cheese whipped topping.
are called pastizzi; you can get them filled with ricotta cheese, or with mashed peas. It does sound awful, but they are actually pretty good, but I am still doing my damndest to convince the locals that hot, sticky, goopy cinammon rolls, are really an old Maltese tradition that was simply lost in the ages and deserves a comeback..heh
Good for you and those pastizzi’s sound delicious. My wife is spanish/mexican/italian and makes some of the best foods that I have never eaten before. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm and of course there is the fact that I cooked on sailboats in the Caribbean during 5 very different winter cruises. So I am no slouch in the cooking dept. myself, even if I have to pat myself on the back. Ouch damn it, I just dislocated my shoulder again. lol
Chicago’s first big music fest of the summer, in our amazing new park. Gospel, beer, brats — few better ways to welcome a rather tardy summer to our town. And next weekend, the Blues Fest, which for me is the best summer happening of all.
As some of my friends on this site know, I have been eating tv dinners as my main source of food lately and I got teased recently for that on this site in view of the fact that I often have gardening diaries. I noticed this is a gardening diary up thread and I am enjoying that.
Anyway I finally got to the store, I don’t drive, and picked up all fresh food, vegs. and fruit, including yogurt and cottage chees. I am going to cook and eat this weekend with a lot of pleasure.
My garden has small tomatoes and I am getting a bowl full of strawberries nearly every day.
I shall enjoy staying home this weekend as I have now had my weekly outing and that is plenty.
Bravo diane, good for you, enjoy the fabulous food.
So many people take food for granted. Really. They act as tho meals are an inconvenience, an imposition on their hectic lifestyle. Food should not be an after-thought, zapped in minutes. The whole process of preparing and cooking food can be a spiritual experience and a profound pleasure.
Our connection to Nature is cut off by boxes with plastic films and unrecognizable parts sitting on styrofoam trays. I think it’s important to understand where your food comes from — to see it in its whole form and to realize that it is life taken and absorbed into your own. (I know I’m weird, by the way.) This way of looking at your food does not lead to over-indulgence. Indeed, it provokes savoring and intense appreciation.
Tomorrow i’m going around the corner to pick up the saturday Globe & Mail, some OJ, an a huge loaf of bread from Olive & Gourmando – our yummy bakery.
Lunch will be my eleven-egg salad (i make it spicy) on bread and dinner a Greek salad (with sun-dried tomatoes instead of fresh and oh-so-good Morrocan black olives).
Sunday we’ll be having Caesar Salad (with that extra egg).
The weather in Montreal has suddenly become QUITE HOT and this is just the sort of thing to eat.
Hmm – now i’m hungry…
so my son is taking me to a farm to get some. We
love ‘direct marketing.’
This week-end there is a festival in a nearby small
town, will check that out too.
I’ll be going to the beach on my bike, if this fine
weather keeps up. Will take some pix of the sunrise
if I am up to it.
Best wishes to everyone for a sunny sensual week-end.
went to Manhattan today to attend the Book Expo and it took her 6 hours to get home to Philly on the train because someone threw themselves in front of a train at Princeton Junction.
She’s not in a good mood.
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Oui – Liberté – Egalité – Fraternité
Did i miss something? What’s up Oui?
Brian Williams has an hour-long interview with Bill Clinton on Sunday. It airs at 9PM EST.
Ben Bradlee to appear on a special episode of Reliable Sources. Oh boy. An hour of Howard “the worst toupee since Sam Donaldson” Kurtz. Airs on Sunday.
Newsie’s Entries:
Coming very late to this thread.
On the front cover of Saturday’s (June 4) Il Manifesto – “Contro Calipari spararono almeno in tre” – At least three fired at Calipari.
http://www.ilmanifesto.it/oggi/ (shows current day’s front page – will change when Sunday’s edition is posted on the web)
I am not a subscriber, so I can’t access the article until tomorrow after 3:00 PM PDT.
Official US report says one soldier fired. Previously Il Manifesto announced that the ballistic experts had found two different caliber bullets. We’ll know more very soon.
Me I’m happy to report I’m staying home, I’m not going out of town, I’m not doing anything this weekend except resting and recuperating.
I had a long two weeks of road trips for business (and a little pleasure) and a personal incident which left me temporarily half blinded. Met some very interesting and ahem colorful people.. but this weekend even my best friends are all out of town and I’m looking forward to the QUIET.
My only activity I’ve got planned is walking literally across the street to the “farmer’s market” and buying locally grown tomatoes, green onions, cucumbers and other vegetables (including the red ones which are root vegetables and I forget their name in English at this hour).
Diane101 you can skip the TV dinners and have the best supper of your life by just cutting up raw vegetables and eating them plain as a salad (without the lettuce!) with just a little grated cheese on top. Delicious!
Pax
So he can visit my brother and his wife. Young son is quite excited, Mommy is too, except for the fly-there, fly-back, fly-there-again-in-a-week, fly-back-again routine.
I laid down for a few minutes oh, about three hours ago! Just woke up! Hope I’m not up all night now!
Anyway, sleepy me just got this in my mailbox from a member of the Progressive Talk mailing list:
Appropos the whole steroids issue in pro sports: “You want to define cheating in America? When they make a shirt in Korea for $1.50 and sell it here 500 bucks. And you ask me what cheating means.”–Barry Bonds
I’m still half-awake from a too-long nap, and that scary bug-eyed news anouncer woman is on FOX News (no, not the runaway bride — this is a woman who does the news headlines at night on Fox).
She just reported that the Pentagon said that DETAINEES abused the Koran! One tossed his Koran in the toilet twice, complaining about his religion!
See what happens when you take a nap. News breaks on Friday afternoon, strange isn’t it how those big stories just happen to come out on Friday late.
For the love of Pete. . .just like all the stories from Washington assuring us that the Quran was treated with the utmost respect at all times. Or maybe . . . like once or p o s s i b l y twice it just might have accidentally slipped out of someone’s hands (but only in the most respectful manner).
Ah well. . .as for me, I’m continuing my week of all-nighters, backed into a corner with far too many looming deadlines on Monday morning. Just taking some much needed breaks now and again to stop on by and read a diary or two. (I hadn’t realized how much I’ve been chained to the computer until last night. I took a small work break to lay down on the couch for a few minutes around 1:00 a.m. and I could hear the sound of panic in my husband’s voice when he came downstairs and didn’t immediately find me at the computer – where I’ve been parked for way too long. Not to worry, just laying on the couch, 10 feet away dear. . .but I’m still typing in my head)
Here in the land of Bill & Hil, we’ll be spending time with my son on the soccer field. Then if the weather holds out, some “exciting” yardwork.
I had an appointment on Tuesday, but the dentist had to cancel because her car got a flat tire. Bleah. So now I get to spend my Saturday getting a filling, getting chewed out for the shape of the rest of my teeth, and spending Saturday afternoon letting the novocaine wear off instead of recuperating at work like you’re supposed to.
Oh yeah, that and writing a basic how-to on editing Wikipedia.
I feel guilty for posting about my idylic journey. That sucks.
But since it’s saturday, maybe you could convince her to part with a little extra novocaine.
There’s a small inlet off Rivière-des-Prairies that has turtles, frogs, snakes, catfish, etc. The weather’s gorgeous right now so i thought i’d go have a look-see. I live in a pretty urban environment, so it’s nice to see reptiles outside of a box. The first time i saw this spot, the tadpoles were – i’m serious – almost as big as my big toe.
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I live just adjacent (width of your cursor) to those piers at bottom-right. The inlet is on the other side of the island; that little peninsula on the opposite shore.
If you ever visit Montreal in the summer: yes, check out the Old City; but if you want a peaceful day in the sun, go up to Rivière-des-Prairies for some relaxation by the water. The whole near shore, from below that peninsula to off the top of the map here is a park. You can get to that snaky island, which ends with a dam. There’s ducks, herons, kingfishers. Very nice. Not safe for swimming though.
ok, i guess i’m a bit excited.
I just posted my first diary ever on DK, the current one about my Iraqi friend. If you are so minded please go there and recommend.