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Little bits of info.
I've been spending a lot of time away from my computer, which is unusual for me. But I think it's also good for me. One side-effect is that, though I'm reading LJ, I'm not posting. Sorry.
My Chacos broke at MiRF -- the footbed of the left sandal split almost all the way through -- and I just got a brand spanking new pair in the mail yesterday, 100% free. They really do mean it about that lifetime warranty. And hey, even though my color of strap has been discontinued, they must have had some lying around, because the straps are obviously new, but still in my color. Yay! I am free of the tyranny of socks (for another couple of weeks, at least, before it gets cold).
Meg, Brian, and I did end up going to the shrimp festival, which was hilariously tiny. But we had a lot of fun finding it, eating fish and shrimp, listening to over-earnest Christian rock from a little stage, petting a sturgeon, hand-picking shrimp out of the world's largest cooler, and also picking up some frozen trout fillets, which were quite reasonable. Oh, and smoked salmon spread for them (how was it, anyway?). And then a couple days later we had a shrimp-beheading party (they freeze better without their heads). Never fear: the heads are separate in the freezer, and will become stock.
I seem to have developed a huge crush on one of the farmers/boothies (unclear) at the farmers' market. And while he does ping my gaydar, I'm honestly not sure if that's because I'm actually getting that reading, or because I want to get that reading. Oh, wish fulfillment. Hilarious.
Speaking of said guy, he sold me something like 30# of roma tomato seconds for 15$ two weeks ago. I made a batch of crushed tomatoes so large that it wouldn't fit in my stockpot, and I had to clean out a Rubbermaid tub to use as a container first for quartered tomatoes and then for the strained product. I now have 13 qt. of crushed tomatoes in the chest freezer. Ridiculous.
Fall is officially here. Amanda and I went on a spree Saturday night and used a pie pumpkin to make both pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread, then used a defrosted pack of ground venison (thanks, Ike) and a butternut squash to make a butternut and venison rice bake. And some toasted pumpkin seeds. And pie crust cookies. It was a bit much :)
The quarter started. I'm doing well. More on that later.
Other things, too, I'm sure.
I've been spending a lot of time away from my computer, which is unusual for me. But I think it's also good for me. One side-effect is that, though I'm reading LJ, I'm not posting. Sorry.
My Chacos broke at MiRF -- the footbed of the left sandal split almost all the way through -- and I just got a brand spanking new pair in the mail yesterday, 100% free. They really do mean it about that lifetime warranty. And hey, even though my color of strap has been discontinued, they must have had some lying around, because the straps are obviously new, but still in my color. Yay! I am free of the tyranny of socks (for another couple of weeks, at least, before it gets cold).
Meg, Brian, and I did end up going to the shrimp festival, which was hilariously tiny. But we had a lot of fun finding it, eating fish and shrimp, listening to over-earnest Christian rock from a little stage, petting a sturgeon, hand-picking shrimp out of the world's largest cooler, and also picking up some frozen trout fillets, which were quite reasonable. Oh, and smoked salmon spread for them (how was it, anyway?). And then a couple days later we had a shrimp-beheading party (they freeze better without their heads). Never fear: the heads are separate in the freezer, and will become stock.
I seem to have developed a huge crush on one of the farmers/boothies (unclear) at the farmers' market. And while he does ping my gaydar, I'm honestly not sure if that's because I'm actually getting that reading, or because I want to get that reading. Oh, wish fulfillment. Hilarious.
Speaking of said guy, he sold me something like 30# of roma tomato seconds for 15$ two weeks ago. I made a batch of crushed tomatoes so large that it wouldn't fit in my stockpot, and I had to clean out a Rubbermaid tub to use as a container first for quartered tomatoes and then for the strained product. I now have 13 qt. of crushed tomatoes in the chest freezer. Ridiculous.
Fall is officially here. Amanda and I went on a spree Saturday night and used a pie pumpkin to make both pumpkin pie and pumpkin bread, then used a defrosted pack of ground venison (thanks, Ike) and a butternut squash to make a butternut and venison rice bake. And some toasted pumpkin seeds. And pie crust cookies. It was a bit much :)
The quarter started. I'm doing well. More on that later.
Other things, too, I'm sure.
