You are here: Home / drudgery And the same is true in 2023! Another from February 2019. No idea what I was so busy with that Monday, but there are times when a fast supper is just as fun as any other meal. Good food is of prime importance to my family, therefore; I shall take pride in doing an outstanding
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From March 2019. March 2023. I really don’t mind ironing, but life is shorter than it was four years ago. In today’s Drudgework Monday we’ll do a lot of ironing, review some movies, and muse about civilization. Twenty-two point eight five gigs– that’s how much ironing I did this weekend. I do not mind ironing.
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I should check and see when the very first Richard de Bury post was here. This is from February 2019 and I feel as if this was the first time I came across him. Of course, now I have Philobiblon. One of my favorites. Omni corrumpuntur et intabescunt in tempore; Saturnus quos generat devorare non
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Another from February 2019. No idea what I was so busy with that Monday, but there are times when a fast supper is just as fun as any other meal. Good food is of prime importance to my family, therefore; I shall take pride in doing an outstanding job of cooking from “The Cook’s Creed”
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More from February 2019. Football food! Recipes coming along soon. Obviously, the best part of the game– and it wouldn’t have taken much– was the football food. It was fantastic! I especially liked the Rissole, but the wings were pretty damned good, too. It was nice of Mr. Big Food to spare me barbecued wings.
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No excuses, I know. But I cannot find a book I had in my hands two days ago (Hanson, Who Killed Homer?). I cannot find the list I made from that book (classic Greek to read). I realized when I was buying a book Mr. Big Food needs (Searle, Minds, Brains, Science) that one of
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The Art of Dining: A History of Cooking and Eating. Sara Paston-Williams. The National Trust. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, London. 1993. I mean seriously. I need a linen press. [consults the world-wide-web] I see this contraption is more accurately called a screw or napkin press.
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Long time readers may recall the Crappy Old Books of the Months series. Though I often fell down on the job because of real life, I enjoyed those. I thought some posts were quite good. Naturally, a few books became tiresome toward the end– you may have eventually tired of the Bacon jokes– but it
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You, the homemaker, are the backbone of the world. If it weren’t for you there would be no home, no family, or world fit to live in. You are a homemaker: chef (and many famous chefs couldn’t please your family as well as you do!), nurse (ever kiss a child’s skinned knee and he stopped
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It was a frigid 64° when I got up this morning. Refreshing. Making progress on the project that goes by the name, “Returning to the Civilized.” College football commences in earnest this evening and continues through the long weekend. Mr. Big Food is excited. As am I.
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Monday, monday (ba-da ba-da-da-da)So good to me (ba-daba-da-da-da)Monday mornin, it was all I hoped it would beOh monday mornin, monday mornin couldn’t guarantee (ba-da ba-da-da-da)That monday evenin you would still be here with me Monday, monday, can’t trust that dayMonday, monday, sometimes it just turns out that wayOh monday mornin you gave me no warnin
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Holy moly. Here’s my excuse. I am quite certain many of you can identify with this situation. As you know, I spent considerable time and energy getting the apartment ready for the new tenant. In the process, I removed quite a bit of stuff (that’s the nice word). I sorted the stuff into two broad
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Yesterday I texted Kat & Miss M asking what, beyond the obvious, did “furnished” apartment mean. I then listed things that were in the apartment and asked what I was missing. Miss M responded that it needed a can opener (forgot to include in the list). Kat responded with links to sites advising folks how
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A. Drudge Work Monday and there’s no getting around it today. Mr. Big Food tied up one of the kitchen trash bags in preparation for the taking out of the trash and then went out to cut The Peninsula. I was employed in pepper picking. When he returned to the kitchen, Mr. Big Food discovered
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That sums up how impressed Mr. Big Food is with my superior abilities to block the sun from shining into the house in the morning when it’s 85°F at 10am, and in the late afternoon when the heat index is 100°. A cool 76° inside and the A/C has hardly been running. (It’s been a
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Back in the crappy olden days, making a home for your family was not considered drudge work. At least that’s the belief Meredith Publishing, publishers of BH&G books, were selling to women. I am of two minds about this. Better Homes and Gardens Decorating Book, Meredith Publishing Company, Des Moines, Iowa, 1961. As person who
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I’m taking it easy today. JK! (That’s kid speak for “just kidding.”) [For the toxic among you, I’ll be talking about Makitta drills below!] After our return from Memphis, I had five and one-half days to get the joint– including the Bunkhouse and some outside parts– ready for company on Saturday afternoon. And not just
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Did you see #10? Plug-in vision-phone. How cool would that be? What is the thing above #5 that has a line but no number? [Betty Jane has a Ph.D. by the way, so that’s Doctor Betty Jane to folks like you & I.] Crappy old books such as this are good for a laugh. How
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In today’s Drudgework Monday we’ll do a lot of ironing, review some movies, and muse about civilization. Twenty-two point eight five gigs– that’s how much ironing I did this weekend. I do not mind ironing. I have to be in the right mood, and the weather has to cooperate, but given those, it’s not a
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