It’s a weird pregnancy thing. Fall asleep early, usually wake up from 3:07 am to 4:30 or 5:00, fall back to sleep. Last night I just woke up earlier than usual.
Morning ask!!! I will see what other recipes I can find as time goes by. I like easy recipes that make people think you cooked for hours. LOL Hope the two from the old cafe turn out okay. I have not tested them but they sounded goof d as well as easy. LOL
We like to make things difficult for drivers in Tasmania. Street name signs are infrequent, or just plain badly placed. And housing numbers on one side of the street do not usually correspond with those on the other side. For example: if “15” is on your left “26” may be on your right. At least rural home numbers (like ours) have been replace with a numbering system based on the distance from the beginning of the road, i.e. 1.27 kilometers up the road is house number 127. Which, incidentally, makes it easy to know how far you’ve walked.
We installed a county-wide 911 emergency system about 1996 and had to do a complete readdressing from rural route mailbox numbers to standard street numbers. We also based the house numbers on distance and its quite handy for the emergency responders, especially when people don’t mark their driveways way out in the country. At least we can get pretty close using the odometer. The 911 project was definitely one of my more worthwhile experiences.
I wish they would do that in towns. They don’t even use “block numbers” so that there are breaks at majors streets even within the 10’s and 100’s, etc. Not that it matters much, no one puts their street address on their houses, offices or shops.
(Oh look, it’s hailing. Lovely weather we’re having today.)
Our very rural house was #10, before the new system. Now we’re in the 300’s (over 3K up the road). which tells you a bit about how far apart the houses are out here. I assume the needs of fire and ambulance were the driving force here as well since they also put reflective house numbers on posts at the tops of drives.
I have a teleconference for a freelance project this morning…need to figure out an excuse to leave the office for a half hour or so. Any suggestions? 🙂
Then you get the reputation of always having Mommy issues to deal with.
Tell them God revealed to you in a dream that the Rapture was going to happen today and you want to go on a big shopping spree with your credit cards first.
Reminds me of that bumper sticker mocking the one that says ‘in the event of the rapture, this car will be unmanned’…”in the event of the rapture, can I have your car?”
And even better, this one I saw recently “In the event of the rapture, this car will be unmanned, and careen into a school crosswalk killing innocent children”
Thanks for asking about the super-secret tourist attraction/barnyard mystery. Frankly, it’s been too damp & chilly to work outside. Currently: 28 degrees & breezy. We’re waiting for snow showers.
I was able to take a little hike up the mountain yesterday, though, just before sunset.
heh, Guess what? Same company I had the telecon for called me about 2 hours after I sent them their finished project this morning to explore “more permanent employment opportunities”.
We’re chilly and damp here, too. Seems like just a week or two ago it was cool enough to finally turn off the AC and open the windows at night. Now it’s in the 40s during the day. Hey, where’d Fall go?
I was on the beach in Cape May on Sunday, shirt off and wading in up to my knees. Now I’m hunting for my car’s snow brush. What a difference 4 days makes.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the snow tires yet, b2. I don’t think you will get too much. We might get a few inches up here. Then we’ll be back in the 40s/50s by early next week.
I find leaving a terry towel draped over the steering wheel when not in the car keeps the wheel at well below surface-of-the-sun temperatures. You can also take the towel off the steering wheel and use it to keep from frying your thighs on your vinyl seats.
Yah, yah, so den ya tink ya got it tough, weather wise!
As of this morning we had 5 inches on the ground. This is the earliest significant accumulation of snow in ND that I can recall, (and I’ve been around a day or two longer than AndiF, I think.)
Most of the leaves were still on the trees, so the branches were fairly heavily laden down, and some broke. The temp has reached 38F now, so most of the snow has fallen from the branches, thankfully.
Droughts over. A little sunshine would sure get everything growing. Hint. Hint.
It’s at the point where trees, already stressed by the drought, are in danger of drowning or toppling. We’ve already had at least half a dozen fall over from the combination of wet feet and high winds.
At some point, I have to go get the laundry off the line. Sigh.
I just saw the news about the balloon kid – nope, doesn’t look good. I wish more parents would invest in padlocks (and have a good hiding place for the keys). Seductive objects can’t be left even remotely accessible.
The sun’s actually popped out for a bit. Woo and might I add Hoo.
6. And it was very scary because the balloon was flying really fast around the Front Range and his brother swore he was in it, but when it finally came down it was empty. So he was missing for three hours, in a box the whole time.
What I tell parents who think their kids know better than to mess with dangerous thing is “I played with the guns, and I was a very good kid”. It’s true, I was very responsible and trustworthy, and I was also very, very curious, so I played with the guns, including loading them.
How is it that everyone forgets their childhood when they become parents? I was a smart kid and I did lots and lots of stupid things, starting as soon as I could walk and probably extending into my early twenties.
Busy day.
Took curly’s mother to a nursing home today (93). Assisted living will no longer suffice. Several hospitalizations the last few months due to dehydration. Picked her up at the hospital just after noon – now safely installed just cross-town. She seemed to take it well, but then, Alzheimer’s will probably make you sufficiently confused.
I’m so sorry to hear that. We’ve been go through something similar with Jim’s mom but in this case it’s from independent living to assisted living. She’s have some trouble with the adjustment and some confusion but we’re hopeful she will do better once she get settled. I wish there was some hope for curly’s mom as well but I know that with Alzhieimer’s, some good days are generally the best you can hope for.
Thanks, Andi. I saw your comments on your m-i-l’s move. curly is still over there to help ease the transition. The bonus is that she’ll be much closer – she used to be in Westchester at the assisted living (close to curly’s brother), but now back in the city where she was born in 1916…
We just went through this with our mothers. My mom was just 5 minutes away and we spent a lot of time spiriting her away to visit at our place where she could enjoy some home cooking and escorting her to various village social gatherings where we knew her friends would be in attendance. Mrs. ID surreptitiously entered some of her hand made quilts in a craft show and she was delighted to see them on display there.
We have lots of memories of good times over the last few years and are very grateful her quality of life remained good up until the week before her death back in March.
Mrs. ID’s mother was a little further away, but we were still able to get there periodically to spend a few days visiting and going places with her until she had a stroke about a year ago. Mrs. ID’s sister is blessed with a large enough household and daughters to help out, so was able to care for their mom at home until her last year.
This diary by ThePopulist was posted on Father’s Day 2007. The diary begins, “I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now.
ThePopulist was right, I have never forgotten the story.
Yesterday I was in line at the grocery store behind a very elderly woman, perhaps mid-nineties, very tiny, thin, sparse white hair, she reminded me of a helpless baby bird. She was hanging onto her wheeled walker for dear life and trying to pay for her dozen eggs. The cashier ran her debit card and it was denied and he tried to tell her that and ask for another form of payment but she was confused and she clearly did not understand what was going on. I asked him how much her total was and gave him some money and she just looked up at me with such worry and confusion in her face that it broke my heart. There is an assisted living place right across the street (for very wealthy seniors) and she had walked over from there, but I have no idea why they allowed her to do that unassisted. I saw her in the parking lot, in the wind and rain with no coat on, so I walked her back across the street with a newspaper over her head. I just found it sort of infuriating for that very ritzy (as they go) establishment to let that poor woman out alone. Made me not want to get old.
Also, my mother in Cleveland really needs to move to assisted living but can’t even afford the worst of them. It’s depressing.
That’s such a sad story — and how lucky for her that you were there.
The place we moved my m-i-l to only requires people to be able to pay for two years and you can stay there for as long as you live, no matter when you ran out of money or how long you live. It’s pretty amazing.
Today is one of my favorite days of the year — the Big Birthdays Feast Day. We combine four birthdays that stretch from the end of September to the end of October and go to our friends’ Japanese restaurant for a dinner that they dream up, full of surprises and wonderful tastes.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm I love Japanese food. Especially tempura.
I’ve got a birthday coming up. I usually just wait to see what Imogen has in mind. Our fall-back is a restaurant is called “Sirens” which does amazing and exotic vegetarian dishes. One of those small-portions intense-tastes order-a-selection-of-dishes places.
Oh, and before that we’re spending several days on Bruny Island, which has lots of local specialty food producers. Our favorites being Bruny Island Cheeses and Bruny Island Chocolates. There’s also wineries and a berry farm. Oh, and penguins. What more could you want?
I can tell you what they smell like – which is fish, and not the fresh stuff. Oh, and if you get too close and startle one, it will throw-up the contents of it’s gullet on you, as a defense mechanism.
I’m so glad we don’t have a television. Also, by not being in sync with the US news cycle, many of these “dramas” have played themselves out by the time we get wind of them.
I missed the whole drama by being at work, and I just wish we could be out of sync with the US news cycle here…no more missing white women and crazy media whores.
Not that our tv is any better, there’s just lots less of it – and at our house we don’t even watch that.
The news cycle here looks something like this:
Australian rule football player arrested for:
pub fight;
sexual assault;
or,
bashing a taxi driver
Sports:
Cricket
Australian League football
rugby
horse racing
dog racing
bicycle racing
swimming
field hockey
netball
rowing
lawn bowling
boxing
car racing
motorcycle racing
or,
any sport anywhere no matter how obscure in which an Australian is in the first dozen or so places
Anyone Australian even remotely connected to a national incident
Police attacked by:
pub patrons;
ravers;
party crashers;
sports team;
etc.
The daily “glassing” story (someone using a broken glass as a weapon in a pub)
The daily knifing story (guns are much more legislated here)
Drunk survives being run over by train (really – it happens all the time)
Foreign national found safe/dead after going missing in a national park
And,
Another story about some young athlete being involved in an act of violence
If you get the sense that drink, sports, and violence are Australia’s three national past times you wouldn’t be wrong. Good thing we have socialize health care (even if it is so badly burdened by men behaving badly that the system barely copes with anything else).
Yeah, sounds a lot like here, just substitute NFL players and Hollywood stars for the Aus. rule football players, guns for knives, and baseball and basketball for cricket and rugby. I guess missing white girls and molested children are our version of the drunks under the trains…
Did you see that video of the stroller falling between the tracks and being dragged by the train (the kid was fine)?
That was incredible.
I’ve seen the link to the stroller clip in all the online papers, but I tend to avoid watching things like that, so I didn’t click on any. Of course I’m glad the kid was OK.
Favorite dish of the night was a tie between the Chawanmushi and a hijiki, mushroom, carrot, tofu saute. Or maybe it was the salmon in broth. Or maybe it was the chicken with miso. Or the sashimi or the sushi (especially the rainbow sushi).
Ooh, that looks good. There is a little Korean place here that makes an eggy seafood pancake that I love. And the Hot Stone Pot Bi Bim Bob….mostly I get that because I love to say it, but it’s also delicious.
That old place was getting a bit messy…
You up late or up early? Either way, sorry for the lack of sleep.
It’s a weird pregnancy thing. Fall asleep early, usually wake up from 3:07 am to 4:30 or 5:00, fall back to sleep. Last night I just woke up earlier than usual.
Huh, that’s pretty much what menopause was like for me — only I generally woke up and went back to sleep two or three times during the night.
I am so glad I have never had to go through either one.
Well Let me help mess it up this am. LOL Morning everyone!!!
Good morning, rf!
We printed your two recipes from the old cafe. Hope to test them out some time this week.
Morning ask!!! I will see what other recipes I can find as time goes by. I like easy recipes that make people think you cooked for hours. LOL Hope the two from the old cafe turn out okay. I have not tested them but they sounded goof d as well as easy. LOL
Back at civil servitude. Ugh.
Morning!!! I would say good morning but as this is your Monday, I will play nice. LOL
Good afternoon, RF!
Believe me, I feel your pain, boran2.
But I shouldn’t complain being that us civil servants just got a 3 day weekend. 😉
With what we put up with, we should get a 3 day weekend every week;-)
I have decided that my job is like Office Space, but with PhDs and cage wrestling fans…really.
Sounds like a very interesting place to work!
Some days are definitely more interesting than others. 🙂
A pizza delivery guy just circled our block twice and I had a fleeting thought of flagging him down and claiming the pizza, since I haven’t eaten yet.
Rhetorical question: How do you get lost in a town with less than 1,000 population?
Bad address?
We like to make things difficult for drivers in Tasmania. Street name signs are infrequent, or just plain badly placed. And housing numbers on one side of the street do not usually correspond with those on the other side. For example: if “15” is on your left “26” may be on your right. At least rural home numbers (like ours) have been replace with a numbering system based on the distance from the beginning of the road, i.e. 1.27 kilometers up the road is house number 127. Which, incidentally, makes it easy to know how far you’ve walked.
We installed a county-wide 911 emergency system about 1996 and had to do a complete readdressing from rural route mailbox numbers to standard street numbers. We also based the house numbers on distance and its quite handy for the emergency responders, especially when people don’t mark their driveways way out in the country. At least we can get pretty close using the odometer. The 911 project was definitely one of my more worthwhile experiences.
I wish they would do that in towns. They don’t even use “block numbers” so that there are breaks at majors streets even within the 10’s and 100’s, etc. Not that it matters much, no one puts their street address on their houses, offices or shops.
(Oh look, it’s hailing. Lovely weather we’re having today.)
Our very rural house was #10, before the new system. Now we’re in the 300’s (over 3K up the road). which tells you a bit about how far apart the houses are out here. I assume the needs of fire and ambulance were the driving force here as well since they also put reflective house numbers on posts at the tops of drives.
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Ooh, gorgeous photo, Andi. When is that from?
I have a teleconference for a freelance project this morning…need to figure out an excuse to leave the office for a half hour or so. Any suggestions? 🙂
Last Saturday. It’s the front view from the tourist rental we had for our old broads get-together.
Make it longer and you can tell them you have a doctor’s appointment. You can spend the extra time shopping for baby clothes. 🙂
Problem is, I had a midwife appointment yesterday. Maybe a sick kid needs retrieving from school?
Or Martin has car trouble and you have to go pick him up.
Or someone left something in the back of my car that they desperately need for class… 🙂
I’ll think of something when the time comes. And now I’m off to the races…have a great day!
Then you get the reputation of always having Mommy issues to deal with.
Tell them God revealed to you in a dream that the Rapture was going to happen today and you want to go on a big shopping spree with your credit cards first.
ROTHFLMAO!!! Can I go shopping also?
That would be the American thing to do.
Reminds me of that bumper sticker mocking the one that says ‘in the event of the rapture, this car will be unmanned’…”in the event of the rapture, can I have your car?”
And even better, this one I saw recently “In the event of the rapture, this car will be unmanned, and careen into a school crosswalk killing innocent children”
“after the Rapture, we get all their shit”
(lipris’ sig line @ kos)
Gee. How can these Americans call it rapture if they don’t get to take their cars?
Happy Humper, everyone! Good to see you, refinish!
IOt feels good to be back. I have missed all the fun and friendship. I do so love this place and fell safe here.
How’s the dome-building going?
Howdy, Andi!
Thanks for asking about the super-secret tourist attraction/barnyard mystery. Frankly, it’s been too damp & chilly to work outside. Currently: 28 degrees & breezy. We’re waiting for snow showers.
I was able to take a little hike up the mountain yesterday, though, just before sunset.
Hi Wench! I thought it was established that when the temperature was below about 40 degrees, it wasn’t called a “breeze” anymore.
Luscious One: up here, we also call 30 degrees ‘balmy’.
We have very light snow at the moment. NOAA forecast is full of exclamation points!!!
I’m off to lunch momentarily (as opposed to ‘out to lunch’, the general state-of-play).
I hope you’ll drop by the FFF tomorrow with some new pictures of the dome or even better the view from the mountain.
We haven’t had freezing temps yet but we’ve gone to the upper 30s.
Beautiful photo as always. Howdy Miss Andi!!!!!!!!!
Howdy to you, RF.
Good to “see” you around, even though I keep missing you.
LOL Good to see you also. I guess we will be on at the same time sometime. LOL
What a lovely shot! Very beautiful.
Thanks. It was a nice change to be somewhere in the morning where I can get a full view of the hills.
Nice one! But no snow yet… ya must live right down there in banana country!
but the kind we’ve got don’t have bananas in them. ;P
But seriously folks … I don’t think it’s ever snowed in October here.
In the end, the time of the call was changed, and I just took a late lunch to “run errands”. No mommy issues or anything else involved…
Glad it worked out so simply. And now you’ll have worked all the plotting for the next time.
heh, Guess what? Same company I had the telecon for called me about 2 hours after I sent them their finished project this morning to explore “more permanent employment opportunities”.
Looks like all the kewl kids want you. 🙂
Yeah, until they find out I’m pregnant, anyway. 🙂
awesome!
It definitely was a nice little ego boost.
Snow for later on (higer elevations). This is way too early. Gotta dig out the snow tires.
We’re chilly and damp here, too. Seems like just a week or two ago it was cool enough to finally turn off the AC and open the windows at night. Now it’s in the 40s during the day. Hey, where’d Fall go?
I was on the beach in Cape May on Sunday, shirt off and wading in up to my knees. Now I’m hunting for my car’s snow brush. What a difference 4 days makes.
Just back from a walk. Cold drizzle here in the city – and only 42 deg. Good luck finding the snow gear.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the snow tires yet, b2. I don’t think you will get too much. We might get a few inches up here. Then we’ll be back in the 40s/50s by early next week.
Global warming is real.
We’re expecting mid 90s for the next couple of days
::sigh::
That’s gotta be tough to live with. 😉
I’ll manage after I find my oven mitts for driving
I find leaving a terry towel draped over the steering wheel when not in the car keeps the wheel at well below surface-of-the-sun temperatures. You can also take the towel off the steering wheel and use it to keep from frying your thighs on your vinyl seats.
Yah, yah, so den ya tink ya got it tough, weather wise!
As of this morning we had 5 inches on the ground. This is the earliest significant accumulation of snow in ND that I can recall, (and I’ve been around a day or two longer than AndiF, I think.)
Most of the leaves were still on the trees, so the branches were fairly heavily laden down, and some broke. The temp has reached 38F now, so most of the snow has fallen from the branches, thankfully.
Definitely got to say “better you than me”.
Though it is pretty.
MORE. DAMN. RAIN.
Droughts over. A little sunshine would sure get everything growing. Hint. Hint.
It’s at the point where trees, already stressed by the drought, are in danger of drowning or toppling. We’ve already had at least half a dozen fall over from the combination of wet feet and high winds.
At some point, I have to go get the laundry off the line. Sigh.
Morning all.
Morning, keres. We’ve been stuck in a wet, dreary pattern as well. Not a lot of rain but a lot colder and cloudier than usual.
I’ve been glued to CNN for three hours because of the boy in the balloon. I sure hope it’s a hoax because it doesn’t look good for this little guy.
I just saw the news about the balloon kid – nope, doesn’t look good. I wish more parents would invest in padlocks (and have a good hiding place for the keys). Seductive objects can’t be left even remotely accessible.
The sun’s actually popped out for a bit. Woo and might I add Hoo.
yay…they found him, hiding in a box in the attic. whew.
I missed most of the drama. How old was this kid?
6. And it was very scary because the balloon was flying really fast around the Front Range and his brother swore he was in it, but when it finally came down it was empty. So he was missing for three hours, in a box the whole time.
Poor kid! I can imaging the sinking feeling he must have had when he saw his dad’s toy fly away. I’d have gone on the lam too!
As soon as the parents get over being relieved, that kid will probably found out that he’s grounded until he’s 35.
Grounded at one of those dodgy reform-your-kid boot camps in Paraguay if he was my kid.
I’m with keres, if you have little kids and an attractive, dangerous thing like that, you need to have it secured and locked.
What I tell parents who think their kids know better than to mess with dangerous thing is “I played with the guns, and I was a very good kid”. It’s true, I was very responsible and trustworthy, and I was also very, very curious, so I played with the guns, including loading them.
How is it that everyone forgets their childhood when they become parents? I was a smart kid and I did lots and lots of stupid things, starting as soon as I could walk and probably extending into my early twenties.
Looks like the things that needed locking away from this kid was his parents (and “reality” [what an obscene genre] television).
Whew indeed.
OMG, it’s too early for me to even contemplate that…
Gives me the shivers just looking.
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Morning Miss Andi!!!!!!!!!
Hi RF!
We do have to stop not meeting like this. 😉
Good (late) morning all. The snow has ended leaving little except in high elevations. What happened to fall?
Busy day.
Took curly’s mother to a nursing home today (93). Assisted living will no longer suffice. Several hospitalizations the last few months due to dehydration. Picked her up at the hospital just after noon – now safely installed just cross-town. She seemed to take it well, but then, Alzheimer’s will probably make you sufficiently confused.
I’m so sorry to hear that. We’ve been go through something similar with Jim’s mom but in this case it’s from independent living to assisted living. She’s have some trouble with the adjustment and some confusion but we’re hopeful she will do better once she get settled. I wish there was some hope for curly’s mom as well but I know that with Alzhieimer’s, some good days are generally the best you can hope for.
Thanks, Andi. I saw your comments on your m-i-l’s move. curly is still over there to help ease the transition. The bonus is that she’ll be much closer – she used to be in Westchester at the assisted living (close to curly’s brother), but now back in the city where she was born in 1916…
Well it’s good that she closer. But aging parents are definitely hard for both the parents themselves and the children.
Luna and I always visit the Alzheimers wing first when we do our nursing home visits.
We just went through this with our mothers. My mom was just 5 minutes away and we spent a lot of time spiriting her away to visit at our place where she could enjoy some home cooking and escorting her to various village social gatherings where we knew her friends would be in attendance. Mrs. ID surreptitiously entered some of her hand made quilts in a craft show and she was delighted to see them on display there.
We have lots of memories of good times over the last few years and are very grateful her quality of life remained good up until the week before her death back in March.
Mrs. ID’s mother was a little further away, but we were still able to get there periodically to spend a few days visiting and going places with her until she had a stroke about a year ago. Mrs. ID’s sister is blessed with a large enough household and daughters to help out, so was able to care for their mom at home until her last year.
This diary by ThePopulist was posted on Father’s Day 2007. The diary begins, “I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now.
ThePopulist was right, I have never forgotten the story.
Yesterday I was in line at the grocery store behind a very elderly woman, perhaps mid-nineties, very tiny, thin, sparse white hair, she reminded me of a helpless baby bird. She was hanging onto her wheeled walker for dear life and trying to pay for her dozen eggs. The cashier ran her debit card and it was denied and he tried to tell her that and ask for another form of payment but she was confused and she clearly did not understand what was going on. I asked him how much her total was and gave him some money and she just looked up at me with such worry and confusion in her face that it broke my heart. There is an assisted living place right across the street (for very wealthy seniors) and she had walked over from there, but I have no idea why they allowed her to do that unassisted. I saw her in the parking lot, in the wind and rain with no coat on, so I walked her back across the street with a newspaper over her head. I just found it sort of infuriating for that very ritzy (as they go) establishment to let that poor woman out alone. Made me not want to get old.
Also, my mother in Cleveland really needs to move to assisted living but can’t even afford the worst of them. It’s depressing.
That’s such a sad story — and how lucky for her that you were there.
The place we moved my m-i-l to only requires people to be able to pay for two years and you can stay there for as long as you live, no matter when you ran out of money or how long you live. It’s pretty amazing.
I’m sorry to hear that, but it sounds like she needs more care and it will be a little easier for curly to check in on her with the move.
Today is one of my favorite days of the year — the Big Birthdays Feast Day. We combine four birthdays that stretch from the end of September to the end of October and go to our friends’ Japanese restaurant for a dinner that they dream up, full of surprises and wonderful tastes.
Hope you all have a good day too.
Sounds great to me. Hope you have a fabulous time!!!!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm I love Japanese food. Especially tempura.
I’ve got a birthday coming up. I usually just wait to see what Imogen has in mind. Our fall-back is a restaurant is called “Sirens” which does amazing and exotic vegetarian dishes. One of those small-portions intense-tastes order-a-selection-of-dishes places.
Oh, and before that we’re spending several days on Bruny Island, which has lots of local specialty food producers. Our favorites being Bruny Island Cheeses and Bruny Island Chocolates. There’s also wineries and a berry farm. Oh, and penguins. What more could you want?
Happy Birthday early… The cheeses and truffles sound great to me. LOL
Howdy RF.
We’re getting closer to being here at the same time!
And I’m off to walk the dogs in some sunshine for the first time in four days. See ya later.
We keep trying. LOL I guess I need to stop sleeping again. LOL
LOL refinish … Funny.
Haven’t had a chance to say hello and how wonderful it is to see your comments again. {{{hugs!}}}
What’s so fun is that we never know what we’re getting to eat — sometimes we don’t know even after we get a dish. 🙂
Penguins, wine, and good food — sounds like the perfect trip.
I just checked my birthday list and I see I have some weeks before a formal happy birthday is needed but Happy Anticipating Your Birthday.
That sounds great! But what do penguins taste like? 🙂
Bedum Ching!
I can tell you what they smell like – which is fish, and not the fresh stuff. Oh, and if you get too close and startle one, it will throw-up the contents of it’s gullet on you, as a defense mechanism.
Mmm…Japanese food. Sounds yummy!
Off to yoga this morning in the cold and wet. It’s a truly miserable day here weather-wise. A good day for indoor chores.
Shocking balloon-boy update.
Whatever.
I’m so glad we don’t have a television. Also, by not being in sync with the US news cycle, many of these “dramas” have played themselves out by the time we get wind of them.
I missed the whole drama by being at work, and I just wish we could be out of sync with the US news cycle here…no more missing white women and crazy media whores.
Not that our tv is any better, there’s just lots less of it – and at our house we don’t even watch that.
The news cycle here looks something like this:
Australian rule football player arrested for:
pub fight;
sexual assault;
or,
bashing a taxi driver
Sports:
Cricket
Australian League football
rugby
horse racing
dog racing
bicycle racing
swimming
field hockey
netball
rowing
lawn bowling
boxing
car racing
motorcycle racing
or,
any sport anywhere no matter how obscure in which an Australian is in the first dozen or so places
Anyone Australian even remotely connected to a national incident
Police attacked by:
pub patrons;
ravers;
party crashers;
sports team;
etc.
The daily “glassing” story (someone using a broken glass as a weapon in a pub)
The daily knifing story (guns are much more legislated here)
Drunk survives being run over by train (really – it happens all the time)
Foreign national found safe/dead after going missing in a national park
And,
Another story about some young athlete being involved in an act of violence
If you get the sense that drink, sports, and violence are Australia’s three national past times you wouldn’t be wrong. Good thing we have socialize health care (even if it is so badly burdened by men behaving badly that the system barely copes with anything else).
Yeah, sounds a lot like here, just substitute NFL players and Hollywood stars for the Aus. rule football players, guns for knives, and baseball and basketball for cricket and rugby. I guess missing white girls and molested children are our version of the drunks under the trains…
Did you see that video of the stroller falling between the tracks and being dragged by the train (the kid was fine)?
That was incredible.
I’ve seen the link to the stroller clip in all the online papers, but I tend to avoid watching things like that, so I didn’t click on any. Of course I’m glad the kid was OK.
I’m still full.
Favorite dish of the night was a tie between the Chawanmushi and a hijiki, mushroom, carrot, tofu saute. Or maybe it was the salmon in broth. Or maybe it was the chicken with miso. Or the sashimi or the sushi (especially the rainbow sushi).
I’m still full.
Here’s Chawanmushi link.
Ooh, that looks good. There is a little Korean place here that makes an eggy seafood pancake that I love. And the Hot Stone Pot Bi Bim Bob….mostly I get that because I love to say it, but it’s also delicious.
It’s wonderful. And so much trouble to make that it’s not even on the menu for the Japanese customers. He makes it for us because he loves us. 🙂
Your Korean place sounds like a treasure.
Oh, yum.