Since today is Newtonmas, it seemed like a perfect excuse to make apple pancakes. These are a lot like the ones I remember my Dad making on Sunday mornings when blueberries were out of season, except that S has a dairy allergy so I made them with olive oil rather than butter. Ingredients:

1 C. Flour
1 Tbsp. Sugar
2 tsp. ( Read more... )

Here we are at American!Thanksgiving again. The last 12 months have been pretty awful, but this isn't the day for looking back on the bad things (though some might be mentioned in passing). Just to review,
$ ls ../2019/12/*thankf* ../2020/*/*thankf* | wc -l => 49 # gratitude posts in the last 12 months, so 3 weeks missed...
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So this is (American) Thanksgiving day, so it might be a good time to sum up the year, and maybe broaden the time span.
$ ls ../2018/12/*thankf* ../2019/*/*thankf* | wc => 48 # gratitude posts in the last 12 months, so 4 weeks missed.
That includes today, of course. Today I am grateful for...

• My family, the Rainbow Caravan: ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving seems like a good day to re-start Thankful Thursday posts; I have a lot of catching up to do, so here goes...

Today I'm thankful for:

• FAMILY. Blood and chosen, near and far. I have an ( Read more... )

Mostly not such a good day? Something like that. Not terribly productive, no walk (it was raining), and some bad news. I wasn't particularly depressed, mind you; just somewhat down.

I got a call from the person at the bank who had called me a couple of ( Read more... )

Yesterday we did our usual Christmas/Newton's Birthday thing, making a huge pot of Ukrainian borscht and telling our friends they were welcome to come over. About a dozen of them did, and we now have only about 1/3 of the borscht left.

This was probably my most successful borscht yet; it was much more of a ( Read more... )

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Whatever you're celebrating, if anything, may the season bring you joy, and may things be even better in the New Year.

And just to add a little gravity to the celebration, happy Newton's Birthday!

So, definitely a day and season for gratitude. I'm going to name names.

• Colleen, and her slowly but surely improving health. Also her optimism, love, and stubborn belief that I'm better than I usually think I am.
• My family-of-birth and family-of-choice. Mom, still going strong and ( Read more... )