Rain's been coming down since last night.  Wind's starting to pick up.  The forecast sounds fairly alarming, but we are on high ground and far from large bodies of water, so we have our fingers crossed.  We have lots of food, ice, and alternate sources of light.  There are brownies and blondies, and will be roast chestnuts if the power stays on ( Read more... )

Posting for later reference ( Read more... )

So this was not the most Hallmark of Passovers--fortunately, Hallmark has yet to fully co-opt Passover.  Bobby spent a good part of the seder with gastrointestinal troubles, which made for a lot of interruptions and parents getting up and down with him.  He spent the rest of the seder alternating between misbehavior (trying to blow out the candles ( Read more... )

Very successful, and unfortunately I didn't keep careful track of ratios ( Read more... )

My wife got me a 4 pound duck at Eastern Market, because she knows me and loves me ( Read more... )

Bobby is recovering from a stomach bug, and his appetite is recovering somewhat slowly.  This means that it took 3 parents to feed him chicken soup tonight--me to hold him so that he wouldn't need separate reassuring hugs between each bite, S to sing Kipling songs--why that helps, I'm not sure, but it does--and his Daddy to actually put soup in his ( Read more... )

This turned out really well ( Read more... )

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I have been staring at this article I'm trying to write all afternoon with no success.  I'm still trying to work out the next action sequence in Land Beyond the Border in the back of my head.  And I don't want to do the dishes.  So you get a meme instead.  This one appealed to me because I have a reputation as both A) a picky eater, and B) an ( Read more... )