I bought two grocery bags full of apples today ( Read more... )

Last night we had a ( guest dog. )

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I made fruit butter with apples and buttercup squash overnight in the Crock Pot. I woke up at 4 a.m. so I got up to give it a stir and a taste test and I couldn't get back to sleep for a long time after that because I couldn't stop thinking about how good it was!

Then we ate it on yeast pancakes in the morning and it was a perfect autumn Sunday

Okay, I read The Kite Runner today. I actually read maybe two chapters last night before bed, but then picked it up this morning and read it all day till I finished it a few hours ago ( Read more... )

Books read this summer:

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
The Mummy Congress by Heather Pringle
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov ( Read more... )

I have high speed internetibility in the comfort of my own computer chair once more, so I put some nice summery pictures on flickr.


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After coming back from the weekend we had a bunch of wedding reception leftovers and some pretty nice tomatoes. I chopped up one of the tomatoes and was thinking about bread salad that Molly had been telling me about. Only I didn't have any bread so I used stuffing instead.

I'm 85% settled into our wonderfully large and centrally located apartment. It's nice to have my old tea routine back to myself and to have a shortcut to Main Street Pizza in my backyard.

Finding an apartment the same month that school starts in a college town is quite the bitch.