You will need, in addition to fabric ( Read more... )

Anyone who made the peach recipe here (http://marveen.livejournal.com/217259.html ), be warned. The peach "honey" has crystallized ( Read more... )

Coldservings has written and linked an extensive list to rebut the apologists who try to tell us, "Nobody wants to take your guns."

Yes, they do. The quotes in the linked article are seldom moderate, seldom middle-of-the-road: they usually talk of getting rid of them ALL.

Well, we're trying again. And THIS time it's no mechanic's special.

Meet the Black Shadow, another Honda:


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Sunday I was struck down by a migraine , but still managed to teach my class on Travel Foods of the Fur Trade Era (1800-1840). I had seven students plus two kibitzers who hadn’t signed up but came along anyway. The pemmican and dried beef were tasted and pronounced “interesting”, which is par for the course. (Not jerky, dried beef: innocent of any ( Read more... )

The next day I got up around OMG-IT’S-EARLY, or 6 am. (Considering Grey works the swing shift and we usually go to bed around three AM, this is a major shift.) I lit a fire by cheating and using matches because it kept @#$% raining and everything was damp. After coffee and an egg, I felt more human and went to register for classes. I chose to take ( Read more... )

Well, here's the tale, divided up by day.

I absolutely hate dealing with wet canvas. Let’s get that out of the way right now. It’s heavy, the smell gets old after a few hours or DAYS of constant wet-canvas-smell, and let’s not talk about the mildew issues. D-:However ( Read more... )

Brandon Sanderson did okay finishing the series, but not great. The two authors do have different styles, although it's hard to point definitively at some passage or turn of phrase and say with certainty, "This was written by Jordan, and this by Sanderson ( Read more... )

I was sick today and dozed off on the couch, and when I woke up The Martha was doing her trademark song and dance about...white sauce ( Read more... )

After all, Sandra Lee pretty much made the ultimate deadpan joke about her show a few years backBut sometimes, I trip over the show while surfing or after I've been doing something else and it comes on the Food Channel ( Read more... )