Don’t worry about him. He is okay, just a little stern sometimes, but inside he is a real softy.
It has snowed all afternoon and I am very happy, especially because it stuck around and buried everything under an inch of it’s white iciness. It also froze up all the premature blossoms and told [...]
Archive for December, 2006
Introducing, Harold
Posted in craft, general, weather on December 30, 2006 | 3 Comments »
An eventual & warm christmas
Posted in general on December 26, 2006 | 2 Comments »
So that was that. Christmas is over for another year, and it came and went more eventfully (in a domestic sense) than usual. On christmas Eve we had dessert with our neighbours and their family and got an invite to Vermont! The next day it was just me and Mark in [...]
burninating all the puddings
Posted in food on December 25, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I can hardly write about what just happened. I am still in grief. I made a beautiful pavlova. It was tall and just crunchy on the outside and really marshmallowy looking. Bloody perfect. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
So with that cooked and left to get crunchy in the warming drawer we got our chicken [...]
Tis the season…
Posted in general on December 23, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Here we are at almost Christmas. We have a whole lot of food in the fridge, and even a small chicken that evidently lived its life in a castle, ate only organic food and generally had a Wonderful Life, and will grace our non-vegetarian table if we can work out how to cook it [...]
salt dough stars
Posted in craft on December 17, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been making stuff this weekend, happy holiday/Christmas/Hanukkah salt dough stars to give to people in my English class, and people at the craft group. Here are a few of them cooked and painted and dripping with varnish that makes your head spin, and your spelling worse.
I also made this snowman for us, that [...]
