notes for the day
September seems to have actually come to stay: it was overcast the entire day! I won't believe that fall has come until October, though, as what with global weirding summer's been coming later and staying longer, but it was still nice to stare out at a foggy sky all day.
I saw a gorgeous cat on the roof next door -- he looked part bengal! I tried to get a photo, but he blended too well with the discarded carpet he was thoroughly enjoying. I'm pretty sure he was a bengal, though: raccoon tail, big rosettes, big lean muscular body. I think he's the cat who came to say hello the other night, causing all three of my cats to try to fight him through the doorway. Quite noisy, but very exciting. Frances made the most appalling hissing noises for a cat who's still under 10 pounds! Milo's tail was puffed up to about three inches across, and he's a super-short hair.
I've been discovering the joys of my freezer. I made banana-almond bread the other day, as a reward for getting through an eight-hour grading slog, and decided to freeze a few slices. I thawed one yesterday, and it was as moist and delish as the original had been. Perhaps even more so, as the flavors had intensified and blended.
Later today I'm going to bake chocolate almond cookies. Tomorrow's the last day of summer sessions, and I want to not only use up the massive bag of sliced almonds that's been flopping around in my cupboard, but also make the class a little more enjoyable -- they have to take their final exam. :P It's been hard finding a recipe that didn't call for chocolate chips or buttermilk or something obscure, so what I think I'm going to do is use this recipe at joyofbaking.com and substitute almonds for the white chocolate chips.
(In less savory news, it smells like one of the cats left a watery present for me somewhere in the apartment, but I can't find it! And with our small place, you'd think it would be easy. But the air circulates weirdly, so smells are hard to trace.) And of course you wanted to know about that.
I saw a gorgeous cat on the roof next door -- he looked part bengal! I tried to get a photo, but he blended too well with the discarded carpet he was thoroughly enjoying. I'm pretty sure he was a bengal, though: raccoon tail, big rosettes, big lean muscular body. I think he's the cat who came to say hello the other night, causing all three of my cats to try to fight him through the doorway. Quite noisy, but very exciting. Frances made the most appalling hissing noises for a cat who's still under 10 pounds! Milo's tail was puffed up to about three inches across, and he's a super-short hair.
I've been discovering the joys of my freezer. I made banana-almond bread the other day, as a reward for getting through an eight-hour grading slog, and decided to freeze a few slices. I thawed one yesterday, and it was as moist and delish as the original had been. Perhaps even more so, as the flavors had intensified and blended.
Later today I'm going to bake chocolate almond cookies. Tomorrow's the last day of summer sessions, and I want to not only use up the massive bag of sliced almonds that's been flopping around in my cupboard, but also make the class a little more enjoyable -- they have to take their final exam. :P It's been hard finding a recipe that didn't call for chocolate chips or buttermilk or something obscure, so what I think I'm going to do is use this recipe at joyofbaking.com and substitute almonds for the white chocolate chips.
(In less savory news, it smells like one of the cats left a watery present for me somewhere in the apartment, but I can't find it! And with our small place, you'd think it would be easy. But the air circulates weirdly, so smells are hard to trace.) And of course you wanted to know about that.