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Thursday 13 – Boob Tube Edition
We watch a lot of TV around here. Many weeknights see us plopped down in front of the boob tube watching reruns of something or another (Currently it’s ‘The Office’, though we are almost finished) while we have dinner. We used to eat at the table, and sometimes we still do, but most nights we don’t. Who knows why. After dinner, Maya does the dishes and then goes upstairs to get ready for bed. She gets up early on workdays, and likes a good 9 hours of sleep if she can manage it. Ted and I stay up for a couple more hours, and watch TV or, once in awhile,…
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Meatless Monday – Kidney Bean Curry and Spiced Cauliflower
This morning, I was deciding what to make for tonight’s dinner, and I landed on a delicious Kidney Bean Curry via Smitten Kitchen that I first wrote about here. It’s really good, and we haven’t had it in awhile. In the recipe on Smitten Kitchen, she referenced a recipe for Aloo Gobi, which is another dish that I really like. With Ted being low carb, I had a thought, which was, what would happen if I made the Aloo Gobi sans Aloo? In other words, spiced cauliflower and potatoes, without the potatoes? Worth a try. I made some microwave jasmine rice to go with it, for me and Maya. Here…
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Morning Walk
Just a quick post tonight, Ted is making dinner (Dungeness crab, caught by a friend’s fisherman son yesterday, fresh fresh fresh) and then we will be watching Maya’s new zombie show, The Last of Us. Here are some photos from an early morning walk Mulder and I took recently. Actually, looking at the photos, I can see that I cheated, these are not all from the same walk. Pretend you don’t notice that the leash in the last photo is different than the leash in the first photo. The picture above is the sun coming up behind Mt. Diablo, and Mulder looking handsome near the little lake in our nearby…
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Friday 5
Today’s post will be 5 things I’m thinking about.
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Catching up on Reading
Reading for me is mostly audiobooks these days, as I can listen to them while Mulder and I go for our morning walk, or while I cook dinner, sometimes when I go grocery shopping. It’s a mixed bag, because sometimes my mind wanders and I find I have gaps. Recently I was listening to a book, and while I thought I had stopped it when I took out my earbuds, it was still going, and when I realized it I had lost a couple of hours. Finding where you were in an audiobook is very different than finding where you were in a physical copy. Also, you don’t have that…
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Meatless Monday – Now on Tuesday!
Today, Ted had plans to go to dinner with some coworkers from his last job, friends he hasn’t seen in ages and misses. That left Maya and me at home for dinner, which to me means pasta, and to Maya means vegetarian. I thought of recipes I’ve made before, and decided that instead, I would look at what we had already and make something out of it. I had just cleaned out the fridge and cupboard the other day, so I knew what we had. The result was a delicious and satisfying meal, and I’m writing down the ‘recipe’ for next time. Amounts? However much you want. Fusilli with Pesto,…
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Grandma’s 100th Birthday
This is my Grandma Ward, on the left, and her sister, my Great Aunt Flo, on the right. Had she lived, today would have been Grandma’s 100th birthday. I wrote about her here when she died. She had a long life, full of adventures (as she put it), travel, and a lot of loss. She outlived both of her husbands and all four of her children. She and my Aunt Flo were best friends, born 16 months apart. They lived together for the last almost 30 years of Grandma’s life…and for at least the last 15, Aunt Flo was Grandma’s caretaker, as Grandma’s health was not great, and Aunt Flo…
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Sunday Musings – What the Hell is Wrong with Me?
This is the outlook on my weather app. It’s Sunday morning as I write this, and it’s raining right now. We’re going to get a break for a few hours, in which time we will take Mulder for his walk. It is going to start again this evening, and we have a storm tomorrow. Then it is supposed to calm down, no more rain in the forecast for the next 10 days at least. Which I will admit, stresses me out. I mean, I WANT IT TO DRY OUT, but at the same time, if this is IT for the year and we don’t get any more rain (it has…
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(Sort of) Meatless Monday
I came across this recipe on Facebook, since I follow the New York Times there. It looked delicious, and seemed like a good candidate for a semi-Meatless Monday. I say semi, because I browned some Italian sausage for Ted to add to his, since he wouldn’t be having bread. Stupid WordPress won’t let me change everything below this to blockquote, so it would be CLEAR that it is not mine. I mean, I’ve done it in the past, recently even, but whatever. I don’t want each ingredient to be its own blockquote. So, disclaimer…everything below is from NY Times, except that I changed the title of the recipe from ‘Parmesan’…
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Water Water Everywhere…
I know I talk a lot here about how much I love rain, how tired I am of drought, how much I worry when we have a long, dry winter. If you’ve been watching the news, though, you will see that California is getting too much of a good thing right now. (I guess it’s almost impossible to make a Californian happy about the amount of rain we get…I read an article today that talked about how all of this rain will mean a good year for us, maybe, if it doesn’t all stop soon, but it won’t reverse a lot of the damage that has already been done. We…
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Half-Assing It
I’m not much of a ‘New Years Resolution’ type person, with a couple of exceptions. One year I resolved to eat more pancakes. Since I rarely eat pancakes, that was an easy one. Another year I resolved to floss my teeth more. Actually, that was a resolution MANY years running, until it finally stuck and now I floss my teeth semi-regularly. I’ve seen a lot of posts where blog friends are very organized and planning how many books they are going to read, date nights, etc. I don’t really track that sort of stuff, so I wouldn’t really enjoy that, I don’t think. I have, however, decided to make some…
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Birthday Gifts
I received quite a few lovely birthday gifts, including the lovely necklace in my previous post. (Did I mention it was made in France? I didn’t buy it there, but loved that detail.) Among my favorite gifts were the flowers above, a new iPad and keyboard(!!!), and some lovely earrings. Flowers – I always thought my favorite flowers were tulips, until I discovered peonies. Now I go back and forth. And gerbera daisies are just so joyful! I love them all. iPad/keyboard – My old iPad Mini was from 2015, and was showing its age. I’m a grouch and want anything I buy to be perfect and last forever, but…
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Rainy Day Thoughts
It’s early on Saturday, and I’m sitting downstairs with a cup of tea and the back door open, because it’s not cold and I love to listen to the sound of the rain. Once anyone else wakes up, I will have to close the door because it will be too cold for Ted and Maya (I do have my robe and slippers on), but I’ve been here for almost 2 hours and I’m loving every minute of it. Mulder just came downstairs about an hour ago, and he refuses to go outside and have a pee. Not sure how long he intends to hold it, but I guess time will…
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Friday Thoughts
I’m a day late to wish you a very Happy Winter Solstice. Longtime readers will perhaps remember that I have shared this photo before. It is a time lapse photo from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, of the path of the sun on the Winter Solstice, taken December 21st, 2012. Fairbanks is outside of the Arctic circle, so the sun does technically come up every day of the year, but in the darkest days, it peeks above the horizon, then skits along for a bit, before setting a few hours later. Speaking of the Winter Solstice, I read at Light and Momentary that although after the Solstice, we get a…
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Meme of the Day
Work is crazy right now, I work for a payroll software firm, and year-end means getting changes in to start in January. It’s exhausting. Things will slow down soon, and I have a few days off, so hopefully I can spend time with my family, and also post here, and come by and check out your blogs as well. I’m sorry I haven’t been there. I’ll be there soon. In the meantime, I love this meme.