I am slowly catching up. I gave them each a new bunny and told them a story about how the bunnies were looking for them. So I turned the story into a little booklet. They took such a shine to Tiger that they are getting Certificates of Kindness. Along with a letter congratulating them. Will
From February 2019. Sadly, Bonnie is no longer with us. We have no idea what happened to her. Sometime in July 2020 we just realized she was gone. Clyde is still here. We don’t call Clyde ‘Clyde’ but we’re trying to get into the habit of doing so. We call him Dummy–because he’s dumb–but as
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick is described as no more than five miles (8 km) long and three miles (5 km) wide and lies in a fold in the Northern Alps. The imaginary country features three valleys, a river, and a mountain with an elevation of 2,000 feet (610 m). On the northern slopes are 400 acres (160 ha) of
From February 2019 Tiger’s lovely three story condominium. INTERIOR: 1st story– kitchen and breakfast nook with vinyl flooring, enhanced by stabilizing brick. Split-level 2nd story– living and dining room with wall-to-wall carpet. 3rd story carpeted loft– overlooks dining room, scenic view of Big House’s back door, can serve as storm shelter. EXTERIOR: Cedar paneling with
2/5/2013: This, too, is from February 2019, but it now needs some background. I follow the blog of a Raku potter from Nova Scotia. Quite interesting and cool work. He likes to create stories for his work–usually mythical stories. And from time to time, he invites readers of his blog to create stories of their
As we continue our journey through early 2019 and the land of stroganoffs, here is some history and some funny stuff. For the record, I cannot believe I turned the recipes below into PDFs so y’all could download them. But I did. Originally published early February 2019. SueK’s comment on the 50+ stroganoff recipes post?
This is going to be fun. It appears we toughed the ‘let’s eat stroganoff once a week’ for quite a while before we threw in the towel. So probably a whole week’s worth on content already written and ready to copy. This is good, as I am trying to finish a short story. Added: If
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I saw the blog odometer roll over to 6999 the other day, took a screen shot, and then forgot about it until I was cleaning up my screen shots just now. ‘They’ say most blogs don’t last more than three month. And without wasting time to figure out if
This one is so funny–at least to us–that it deserves a post of its own. The only one that doesn’t work is the Ayn Rand one and we’re going to come up with something different and pencil it in before Mr. Big Food posts it on his office door. From Powerline’s The Week in Pictures
What a day. No really. It’s beautiful out there. The bluejays are out first thing in the morning squaking their heads off. Robins are everywhere again. Sun burned off the little bit of fog. Very nice. I, however, spent most of the day inside. This morning I finally solved the WordPress JetPack problem that had
You may recall that Mr. Big Food and I are working our way through the list of seldom used kitchenware and crossing things off. Last night was the popcorn popper. This was a special event! We had decided to spend a night up in the apartment, and so we did–all of us (except Tiger, that
The recipe instructs the baker to use a template of the baker’s favorite whiskey trademark and some powered sugar. Miss M and Mr. Big Food did this 10 years ago! December 31, 2012. Wow. WHISKEY CAKE Makes 1 loaf cake 1 ½ C walnuts or pecans, chopped½ C raisins, chopped½ C currants1 C flour1 tsp
Hot coffee drinks are coming up Wednesday and Thursday. We’ll see some old friends–The Master Chef, The Frugal Gourmet, and our dear old pal, Clementine Paddleford who’s in New Orleans. So get out those little cups & spoons and get ready! There a full-sized cup & spoon coffee recipes, too!
Three years ago we spend almost a month on the other side of The Pond. Can you say Seasonal Affective Disorder? If so, you’ll appreciate that I still managed to take a lot of great photographs of some pretty interesting and out of the way places. This, for example, was the wall above the bed
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