Today I made homemade pasta for the first time.  To be truthful I've always been intimidated by the idea of doing this, but I came across a recipe with step-by-step instructions and photos and thought I'd give it a try. Here is a photo of the naked noodles after being cooked:


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Peeps Diaramas!  'nuff said.  (Really, SO much goodness among these ( Read more... )

1.  I love boiled turnips

2.  For two weeks a suicidal robin has repeatedly flung itself up against our livingroom window pane.  Why?  I wish I knew.

The season's fits and spurts toward Spring carry me toward something great: I call it hope.  Not the molasses sweet-and-sticky hope of stereotype, but the hope that is a tune I cannot even hear myself singing as I move with the beat.  Measure by measure I can feel the crescendo rise within me and I am off and running.

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Obamanation.

how's that for a double entendre?

(Word neoplasm courtesy of the Hubby.)

Sorry I haven't responded to anyone's comments recently.  This is a tough month, with Jon rotating at a hospital 100 miles away so I only see him on weekends, leaving me and puppy to fend for ourselves.  I'm glad this is temporary, and I'm glad I won't have to work when Jon goes on active duty because balancing work and caring for puppy is leaving ( Read more... )

We got a dog a few weeks ago and named her Lana:


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The irony of CFLs is that they actually reduce overall mercury emissions in the long run. Despite recent improvements in the industry's technology, the burning of coal to produce electricity emits roughly 0.023 milligrams of mercury per kilowatt-hour. Over a year, then, using a 26-watt CFL in the average American home (where half of the electricity ( Read more... )

Bush "singing" Sunday Bloody Sunday

How Bush's stance on stem cells displays the flaws in his thinking (er, non-thinking)

That's all folks!

I got two photos into this year's Meadowlark gardens photo expo.  w00t!  I like the photos I submitted but wasn't sure if they were competitive, so I really wasn't confident this year.  Anyhow, two accepted out of six entries is pretty good!  (Especially with somewhat under 1/3 of entries accepted overall.)  *bounce bounce bounce*