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The fire is lit from now till the rising of the sun
This is an unhosted cafe. Or, possibly not.
Be good!
Is it past everyone’s bed time?
but the time is fast approaching here on the Left Coast. Apparently BooMan and CabinGirl have some liquid energy supplies to still burn off 🙂
Tell the students thank you!
This is the website for the students that were in the protest….go say thanks!
Soon, but not yet.
and haven’t fallen asleep to your iPod yet, try leaving your iPod on the same playlist you want to wake to as you fall asleep, and make sure you have the sleep timer going on the clock/radio. That might work.
(I have the iHome clock radio — not sure if that’s the same one you have; JBL rolled out their own model at MacWorld SF that looks very cool. Oh, and I recommend highly ordering the optional remote for the iHome if you don’t already have it — it’s quite cool…)
I’m just sitting here thinking about sweet rolls.
Has Janet been talking to you in her Girl Scout temptress voice?
KB don’t get started on that or you’ll have me running to the fridge to get a bowl of ice cream. 😉
I’ve been reading Bon Appetit off and on tonight and I’ve been thinking about hearty soups. White Bean and Chorizo Soup. Sounds like Chorizo is a type of sausage. I love white bean soup.
It a mexican sausage. I used to cook some different thngs with it a while back. The soup sound good though. I’m more of a food network junkie. I like to watch how it’s made.
They’re showing it served with Olive and Parmesan Skillet Cornbread. mmmmm. I think I might have to dig out my cast iron skillet this weekend.
I don’t have cable so the only food shows I can watch are on PBS and I’m usually busy on Saturday afternoon.
It does sound tasty. Even with watching the food channel I usually stick to the old standards I know how to cook. I really wish I could cook some of the food I used to eat in Europe. Just never is the same though. At least I did get out of the habit of eating french fries with mayo.
When (and where) were you in Europe.
I can’t get into mayo on fries. I don’t even really like vinegar on them (like in Britain). Just plain ketchup for me, thank you very much.
I was in Germany for six years during the 80’s. Never made it to Italy or Greece, but just about all the rest of the countries I was in. I’ve always told everyone I kick myself for coming back home. I would have to say living in Europe was one of the high points of my life so far.
Germany is on my short list of places to go. I’ve been to Italy a couple of times and loved it. Last time I was in Italy I met a really nice German couple and I asked them all about the different parts of Germany and where I should go. They said that if I really wanted to see “old time” Germany I should go to the old East Germany because it still has that character. But I don’t know, I’d like to see the Rhine valley.
The Rhine valley is beautiful. If you go take a Rhine a flame boat trip. You go up the Rhine during the day and stop at the little wine villages. You reboard the boat at dusk and while going down the river they have all the old castles illuminated and fireworks going. It really is something special.
The biggest problem I had when I was there was finding someplace where there weren’t any americans.
here
Nope I missed it by 6 months. I can imagine all the celebrations I missed.
I had a friend in Berlin who I’d met in the 70s in Winnipeg. He took his hammer down to the action and chopped off a few chunks and mailed it to me. At least I know I got the real stuff.
He told me at that time that if the East German leader (for the name now) had not capitulated there would have been civil war within E Germany.
Hi NDD – I never made it to Berlin. It always seems such a hassle on all the stuff you had to go through. Back at that time we were told if you drove and the East German police pulled you over, the first thing to do was as for the Russian police. Go Figure. Berlin was one of the cities I would have loved to visit. Most of my trips were to Austria, Switzerland, France, Spain and Holland.
Good night everyone. Time for this girl to get her beauty sleep. See you all tomorrow.
Bean and Sausage Soup I made in the slow cooker a while back:
Bean & Sausage Soup
1-1/2 cups navy or Great Northern beans
2 cups water
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1 cup sliced carrots
1/2 cup finely diced celery (approx. 2 ribs)
3 links cooked smoked sausage (I used Gehrhard's smoked chicken and turkey sausage from Trader Joe's, but Polish sausage or something similar would work well) -- approx. 3/5 of a pound
1/2 Tbsp. Italian seasoning or to taste
1 large can (46oz.) chicken broth (I used the Swanson's 100% fat-free & low-sodium broth)
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1 serving frozen mashed potatoes (8 pieces)
1 cup milk
Rinse beans and pick out damaged ones; soak overnight in the 2 cups water.
Slice 2 of the sausages into thin slices; cut other sausage into quarters lengthwise and finely chop. Put beans into slow cooker; add carrots, celery, sausage and Italian seasoning, and mix gently. Pour chicken broth over mixture in slow cooker. Cook on LOW for 7-1/2 to 9 hours.
Within last 1/2 hour of cooking time, place the frozen mashed potatoes into a blender. Ladle about 2 cups of hot soup into blender; puree. Add pureed soup back to slow-cooker. Add milk, then cook on HIGH for 30 minutes.
Makes about 6 servings — like most soups, will probably be even better as leftovers.
Just catching the 2nd wind for the evening here.
But the trouble with these FBCs is the cravings, no end of teasola with food, booze, and puppies… food we got, mescal and a couple of Pacificos we got, but the puppies… the pressure builds… the animality of it all…
Anything exciting happening on the northern front?
Well… yeah… this was more than enough excitement for one day, but if you’re planning on sleeping tonight, I’d check it out tomorrow sometime.
Oprah came to North Dakota and brought bird flu?
Seriously, I guess I should be glad she’s covering it.
How was Mozart the other night? I guess the symphony here is doing some too. Might have to check into that.
It was good. It was the Mass in C Minor with full chorus. I used to sing in a chorus so I always appreciate choral works. But the real reason I went is to hear one of the soloists. She used to be my assistant. When I hired her she told me that she could type and file and do anything I wanted but in her REAL life she was a singer. I thought — oh boy, you’ll work for me forever. cuz singers always need a REAL job to pay the bills. Well, turns out she really WAS a singer — an opera singer and now she travels all over singing with symphonies and in operas. So I sit in the audience and during the applause I turn to whoever is next to me and say “she used to get me coffee.”
Her name is Mary Wilson, not THAT Mary Wilson. And she’s a Minnesota girl originally.
I’ll have to see if my friend, Art 75 knows of her. I tink he knows everytink about classical music.
I sang in a chorus from here and we spent 3-4 weeks in England, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Quite an adventure for an 18 year old… ah, more than a few decades ago.
I’ve done some choral singing back in the day — I was usually 2nd Soprano, but could do 1st if I pushed it (and if the part didn’t run too high — high F# to G was pretty much my limit). I think my range has dropped though so I’m probably firmly 2nd Soprano, could possibly do 1st Alto if I pushed it…
Other than that it’s still spring, +37F, sunny, no wind, and more of the same predicted for the next several days. And I sound like a broken record to myself even, but this is very peculiar to have NO below zero temps during the whole month of January.
I hear you. One of my neighbors has pansies coming up in her yard — in January. Unheard of. Very strange. Although I can’t imagine what my gas bill would be if it WERE cold.
I keep thinking if I didn’t know what I know about global heating how much I’d be enjoying this winter. Knowledge is challenge these days.
so many different layers of activity… that’d be one I’d like to see 12 x 16.
think it’d hold up at that size given the lens on this low budget digi camera. Most of these mountain shots require the max physical zoom, and are seriously cropped after that. When prepping them they typically need to digitally sharpen them even when I’ve braced the camera rigidly.
The lighting in seashore areas can change dramatically by the minute. It’s often like watching performance art, especially around sunup or sundown. A scene like this one lasts maybe a minute; maybe 20 seconds. And when pockets of mist on an otherwise sunny or partly sunny day are involved, a magical scene could compose itself for just a moment or two at most any time of day.
It’s as much a joy for Puget4 and I to be able to share as much as we can as it is for some of you who’ve been so kind with feedback.
Now, I’ve just looked up this particular shot, which is of a series of a dozen or so over maybe a minute, and it’s not cropped. Methinks I’ll go try it on some photo paper….
I’m getting great 8 x 12s with file sizes of 0.9M, to 1.5M, on just hand held. I know that some of the sunrises I’ve shown on BT were with the Coopix resting on the deck railing for some stability. I’m looking forward to a digital that accepts lens, tripod, etc, with a file size that will handle enlargements to 12 x 16.
We printed a number of them landscape 10×7+ and the focus and graininess don’t quite support that size.
It’d be lovely in the 4×5 range or maybe a little bigger.
Even our low end will take a tripod though. I think I’ll attempt to remember this next time I’m tempted to shoot thru the eyepiece of our birdwatching/landscape telescope.
I have a feeling Puget4’s going to get serious about calibrating our printer and monitors pretty soon….
‘Nite all.
I printed a bunch of picture (my pictures) postcards using “Avery textured postcards” and sent to friends in Dec. And I printed a few packs of twenty for gifts.
Postcards; the postcard size is you may surmise rather forgiving, especially compared to 8 X 12s
Good night to everybody. Way past my bedtime.
here too — hockey game is over (Sharks win! Sharks win!), so time to get some sleep…have a very busy day again tomorrow (main project — get the kitchen organized).
Found out we have major incentive to get this disaster area cleaned up; maintenance coming in to replace lights with power-saver type lights (most likely the ones in the bathroom, we think), and we don’t want them to see this place a mess. So this weekend will be MAJOR cleaning session, meaning whatever I can get done before the weekend is less we have to do during the weekend. 🙂
Night, folks…