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After all that time trying to get them to not annoy me and their other immediate neighbors by keeping their door open while cooking stinky food, they've been very very quiet - so quiet I thought they had actually decided to quarantine elsewhere as I hadn't heard or seen them since right after the quarantine started.  Turns out they're there...just ( Read more... )

I suspect that my oven is not getting up to temperature, so I go on Amazon and order one of those dial thermometer doohickeys ( Read more... )

I've been going and walking in one particular city park in the morning, and when it rains, the mall, for the last month.  This park is down on the bay, where wharfs and one of the two train tracks used to be. Part of the southern part sits on some actual rock, but the northern part doesn't, and in fact the northwest section of the walkway is an old ( Read more... )

And this is one year I don't mind at all that decorations and music started way before Thanksgiving ( Read more... )

Tried to save money today by making mayo under the tutelage of a few videos, one of them Gordon Ramsay's (but I didn't end up using his recipe).  And as I only keep two oils around, olive and coconut, and I needed to use up an old bottle, I elected to use olive oil ( Read more... )

I feel like documenting this here, complete with halfassed recipe.  Because I made it up, its weird, and might taste good (or not), and I just feel like writing a recipe, and calculating basic cost ( Read more... )

A couple days ago I decided to get off my ass and finally do the things I should have at the beginning of the summer, and indeed, bought the supplies for back then.  That being the repotting of plants, fertilizing of the serviceberry, and planting of sorrel in the serviceberry pot ( Read more... )

If you make split pea soup with both bone and buffalo broth (to make up for the lack of ham), you will wind up with something that looks and tastes like vegetarian baked beans. XD ( Read more... )

Don't worry, Madeline is back to normal, and is doing fine without lots of kibble.  I think she's realized she feels better when she has her canned or Prowl, both mixed with hot water.  She even ate some canned turkey today, which is a REALLY BIG change.

--Moony