I’ve been thinking about bread a lot recently. For what might be my 1st recipe-a-month, I made bread. Crescent rolls. Al said they made poppin’ dough crescents and Jasper liked them, so I thought I’d try to make a homemade version. Plus we were having leftover chicken divan and I wanted a side bread that … [Read more…]
April really is the cruellest month this year. The rains came on election day, Tuesday. I watched it just sheeting down from the windows of the polling place. It changed to snow just as I was leaving. It was wet slushy stuff, and made it very hard to see when driving. And also hard to … [Read more…]
And other Easter celebratory things, as much as can be expected from a non-religious person like me, whose last name is Shapiro. So here’re more pictures of the Easter eggs I made with Jasper on Wednesday. The method I read on Instagram for how to do the eggs said to use “medicine cups” for the … [Read more…]
Last Friday we were supposed to leave for 2 nights and 3 days in Chicago. But the weather was sounding scary – wet snow – and Thursday night we chickened out and decided to leave Saturday morning instead. Which brought a feeling of great relief and then of course the snow didn’t amount to much. … [Read more…]
I’ve been feeling like I’m taking too long between posts so I’m forgetting all my pithy insights on whatever it is I thought I’d write about. I’m also discouraging myself from taking so many pictures of things since I feel like they’re all starting to look like earlier pictures I already took. See Saturday brekkie … [Read more…]
I feel like a broken record, repeating myself, but I’m still trying to adjust to this retirement thing. I wish I had more energy and I wish I slept better. I’ve been overeating and I think it’s because there’s a time during the day, usually about 4:00pm, when I just feel like I need a … [Read more…]
What we talk about and what we consume. And a catch up kind of a post, because we left off like 10 days ago. I just finished this book called The Farmer’s Wife, by Helen Rebanks. I put it on hold at the library because I heard Rebanks and Scott Simon and Nick Offerman talking … [Read more…]
I’ve had another string of busy days following each other. I didn’t have Jasper last Wednesday because he was off on Emma’s family’s ski trip, but they came back Thursday, and I babysat Saturday night, so Al & Emma could have their valentines’ day. It was an easy night. I showed up a little after … [Read more…]
Weird winter weather continues. Last Thursday, after the temps had been in the 50s, in other words, completely unseasonable for February, we got rain and wind in Madison and a tornado to the southeast. One of the tornadoes touched down maybe a 10 minute drive from my CSA farm. I emailed them and they said … [Read more…]
So like I said we went to Chicago overnight from Feb 1 to Groundhogs Day, and I am also seriously questioning the groundhogs’ verdict that we will have an early spring, since we’ve only had two weeks of winter so far, plus it’s still F**king February, for Pete’s sake. We’re nowhere near the vernal equinox, … [Read more…]