Month: November 2010
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a girl named sue
This is my friend, Sue. She married a friend of mine from college a few months before The Geek and I got married, so we’ve known each other a long time. They live not far and yet far enough from here that we see each other only a couple times a year, which is plain…
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boy child
Today marks the Boy Child’s first double digit birthday, the second child that almost didn’t happen. Reason number one: the Geek is an only child and wasn’t convinced the Girl Child needed a sibling. He was wrong. Reason number two: at eight months pregnant, I somehow came down with meningitis. You want to scare some…
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butter of apples
Today I channelled my inner Laura Ingalls and put up some apple butter. It’s not everyone’s cup of tea, which I cannot understand. It’s delicious on toast and muffins and over baked brie. All appley and spicy, autumn on a spoon. The base for this particular recipe originally came from my friend Lin’s preserving book…
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back in the knit of it
At lunch yesterday- a very grim, gray and soggy day- I killed some time in the Barnes and Noble crafty magazine section. Normally I’d pick up a sewing magazine since that’s my current drug of choice, but it occurred to me that like many things lately (insert: recipes, patterns, plants, house projects) , I’ve been…
foible and folly 