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Dawn patrol

January 10, 2009

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I was up early this morning—almost as early as Dean Peters—and saw things I often miss.  There was an almost-full moon last night, and just before dawn it was sliding down toward the Bay in a misty haze, looking quite beautiful.  I got distracted (there’s a surprise) and didn’t see it set.  By the time […]

Seven-minute frosting and blue skies

January 9, 2009

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My mother made wonderful birthday cakes.  My favorite was a chocolate layer cake iced with seven-minute frosting and drizzled with bittersweet chocolate.  This concoction made decorative fluffy peaks on top of the cake.  The next day a crust would form.  I loved that crust.  The other day I was reminded of all this when we had brilliant sun, blue skies, […]

Chip butties, fishing shanties and other perils of a common language

January 7, 2009

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It all began with Carol Park’s famous recipe for scalloped pineapple, posted on Getting a good start.  That elicited a chain of comments filled with more recipes, British-to-American translations, and general hilarity.  I concluded that we could probably make a good thing out of an international table of equivalents for common foods.  For example:

The Amazing Nest

January 6, 2009

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It’s a beautiful sunny morning in the drumlins and I decided it was a good day to try to capture the Amazing Nest.  Donning my brand new Professional Strength YakTrax, I set off.  I didn’t have far to go, but there was climbing involved. I first saw the Amazing Nest in the fall when the […]

A walk on the beach. Maybe not.

December 29, 2008

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This morning the road was dry as far as the bluff overlooking the Bay. Even the railroad-tie stairs down to the beach were dry. Shall we try a little stroll on the beach? We shall.  Then we saw the patches of slick ice camouflaged as sand, heard the hollowed out ice caverns creaking above the […]

Frosty dawn

December 20, 2008

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I was deep in the down comforter this morning when the Disreputable Duo and their feline accomplice dug me out and told me it was time to get up.  The bedroom window glittered with frost paintings.  The sky was blue.  There was sunshine.  Holy Wah.  Off we went on our walk.  No one else was about except […]

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