where i have been and where i will be
I've been quiet for a few days. Not feeling up to writing about much - though I have been doing things - just haven't felt like taking any photos or writing about it.
On Saturday Dave and I drove to West Reading to pick up Johnny from where he has been spending the summer at his fiance Alison's dad's house. We are (stubbornly) proud of ourselves that we are weathering this hot and muggy summer with no AC in car or house. It's hard though - especially lately. Alison's dad also has no AC in his car or most of the house (though they do have AC window units in the bedrooms upstairs). We are kindred spirits! Anyway the 11 hour drive over and back was beautiful. We live in our own brand of Pennsylvania hills here in the northwest but mid and eastern PA has huge green mountains and vast ridges with great scenery and far vistas. On the way over the sun was shining and there were mounds of white puffy clouds everywhere - but none of them seemed to ever shade us. On the way back there was pyrotechnical sky activity (far away heat lightning and then as we got closer to the storms there were lightening strikes all around). Quite impressive.
While in West Reading we ate out at a Mediteranian restaurant and had something called Baba Ganoush. It is a smokey flavored mashed eggplant dish. We all loved it. So we couldn't wait to eat it at home. Just got back from shopping for the ingredients and Dave is cooking the eggplants on the grill as I write.
I got done with bisque firing the underglazed new parts over the weekend and will start applying glaze to them this week. I have them arranged in this photo by the different glazes that will go on each type of part.
Later: Baba ganoush done. Not sure it tastes as good as the dish we got in Aladdin's but still pretty good...
On Saturday Dave and I drove to West Reading to pick up Johnny from where he has been spending the summer at his fiance Alison's dad's house. We are (stubbornly) proud of ourselves that we are weathering this hot and muggy summer with no AC in car or house. It's hard though - especially lately. Alison's dad also has no AC in his car or most of the house (though they do have AC window units in the bedrooms upstairs). We are kindred spirits! Anyway the 11 hour drive over and back was beautiful. We live in our own brand of Pennsylvania hills here in the northwest but mid and eastern PA has huge green mountains and vast ridges with great scenery and far vistas. On the way over the sun was shining and there were mounds of white puffy clouds everywhere - but none of them seemed to ever shade us. On the way back there was pyrotechnical sky activity (far away heat lightning and then as we got closer to the storms there were lightening strikes all around). Quite impressive.
While in West Reading we ate out at a Mediteranian restaurant and had something called Baba Ganoush. It is a smokey flavored mashed eggplant dish. We all loved it. So we couldn't wait to eat it at home. Just got back from shopping for the ingredients and Dave is cooking the eggplants on the grill as I write.
I got done with bisque firing the underglazed new parts over the weekend and will start applying glaze to them this week. I have them arranged in this photo by the different glazes that will go on each type of part.
Later: Baba ganoush done. Not sure it tastes as good as the dish we got in Aladdin's but still pretty good...