Tuesday after Labor Day
Sep. 6th, 2005 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidAutumn approaches. The air is cooler, just starting to get a hint of a bite in the morning, and I need a blanket at night. Trees are just starting to turn color, with a few early birds even dropping a few leaves. And the light is changing. I mean, I know that, because candle-lighting is changing about 10 min/week these days. But I still notice it with surprise mid-week, when I get up later and the shadows haven't moved as much as I thought they should, or I get home later and it's almost dark. The best part about the chagim being 'late' this year is that I get almost a whole month of fall to enjoy before the month of madness that the chagim always become.
It's perhaps pathetic how competent it made me feel to replace my keyboard. A simple fix, with someone else having told me what to fix. And yet, I'm still pleased.
Huzzah for an impromptu Farwing visit. It's been far too long since I've seen the whirl of exuberance that is her. ;-)
This morning I made a round rye bread, slashing the top so there would be a 'crown' of four points. I used time bake, and it was done when I got home. I traded it to Dalbino83, for a gorgeous purple paper bowl with red leaves, which is now sitting on my dining room table as I figure out what to do with it, other than just look and be happy. Huzzah for the Bostonbarter community.
Since I was in the Square, I treated myself to a browse through Cardullo's. Overpriced imported things abound (the tins of Lyle's Golden Syrup I got for 99p were $11.99!), but it's fun to look round, and usually I find something of interest that's kosher. This time I got a square of mint chocolate by Chocowit, which includes a "collectible card" with an aphorism on it. Mine is "Appreciation allows gratitude to blossom." Which is nice enough, I suppose, for a chocolate fortune :-).
And I stopped at Beadworks, having thought about what kind of beads I'd like to use for a necklace on the theme everything begins in water. Not that I'll likely finish it in time, and it's unlikely to be of sufficiently artistic quality to make it into the show, but it got me thinking, anyway. Unfortunately, there weren't any blue/green glass fish beads available, nor any of the cool reticulated ones. So I've modified the plan to be blue/green/white thread with silver-tone charms and white shell cross-sections. Or at least, that's what I'm thinking of now. If I run into something else to inspire me before I start, this might change.
And because I'm apparently incapable of making a post entirely without food, I present dinner, in progress. I'm roasting an onion and a tomato with the fennel I never did get around to using in a timely fashion. I'm also toasting cubes of leftover challah with olive oil and lots of garlic, plus some herbed salt. When that's all done, the plan is to toss them together for a bread salad, with the addition of some arugula and cheese (feta or the crumbly cheese).
Oh, plus? A postcard of the Infant of Prague from Bitty and Bubblebabble, an incredibly appropriate choice given the last play we saw together.
It's perhaps pathetic how competent it made me feel to replace my keyboard. A simple fix, with someone else having told me what to fix. And yet, I'm still pleased.
Huzzah for an impromptu Farwing visit. It's been far too long since I've seen the whirl of exuberance that is her. ;-)
This morning I made a round rye bread, slashing the top so there would be a 'crown' of four points. I used time bake, and it was done when I got home. I traded it to Dalbino83, for a gorgeous purple paper bowl with red leaves, which is now sitting on my dining room table as I figure out what to do with it, other than just look and be happy. Huzzah for the Bostonbarter community.
Since I was in the Square, I treated myself to a browse through Cardullo's. Overpriced imported things abound (the tins of Lyle's Golden Syrup I got for 99p were $11.99!), but it's fun to look round, and usually I find something of interest that's kosher. This time I got a square of mint chocolate by Chocowit, which includes a "collectible card" with an aphorism on it. Mine is "Appreciation allows gratitude to blossom." Which is nice enough, I suppose, for a chocolate fortune :-).
And I stopped at Beadworks, having thought about what kind of beads I'd like to use for a necklace on the theme everything begins in water. Not that I'll likely finish it in time, and it's unlikely to be of sufficiently artistic quality to make it into the show, but it got me thinking, anyway. Unfortunately, there weren't any blue/green glass fish beads available, nor any of the cool reticulated ones. So I've modified the plan to be blue/green/white thread with silver-tone charms and white shell cross-sections. Or at least, that's what I'm thinking of now. If I run into something else to inspire me before I start, this might change.
And because I'm apparently incapable of making a post entirely without food, I present dinner, in progress. I'm roasting an onion and a tomato with the fennel I never did get around to using in a timely fashion. I'm also toasting cubes of leftover challah with olive oil and lots of garlic, plus some herbed salt. When that's all done, the plan is to toss them together for a bread salad, with the addition of some arugula and cheese (feta or the crumbly cheese).
Oh, plus? A postcard of the Infant of Prague from Bitty and Bubblebabble, an incredibly appropriate choice given the last play we saw together.