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  • the quotidian (1.22.18)

    January 22, 2018
    Quotidian: daily, usual or customary; 
    everyday; ordinary; commonplace



    Pretty good: the cookies everyone is raving about. 
    Pickled onions: perking up the ordinary.
    Experimenting: sausage, kale, butternut, and cheese rolled into lasagna noodles, drowned in a cheesy bechamel, and then baked.

    Books and toast: two of his favorite things.

    Gagging down the Swiss chard.

    Because every kitchen needs a superhero. 
    Rehearsal, reflected.

    Everything breaks eventually.




    Sigh.
    And then back in the box it went because . . . puzzles = futility.
    Making art up.

    Keep-away, dog vs sofa: she drops the ball, it rolls under the sofa, and then she lays there, waiting.

    RUN.
    “It’s like riding a noodle!”

    At the other end of the couch.

    Off to (sunny and hot, lucky!) Puerto Rico for a week with one of MDS‘s first group of rebuilders.

    This same time, years previous: homemade grainy mustard, women’s march on Washington, lemon cream cake, lazy stuffed cabbage rolls, hobo beans, the good and the bad, multigrain bread, chuck roast braised in red wine, peanut noodles.

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  • doing stupid safely

    January 16, 2018

    Here are a series of photos are from last weekend when we were visiting family in Pennsylvania.

    The only things you need to know are:
    a) it was 18 degrees, and
    b) on hand were four doctors and three nurses and an EMT — except the EMT was the entertainment so I guess he doesn’t count — because we do stupid safely.

    Enjoy!

    P.S. For the video footage (thanks, Brother), go here.

    P.P.S. For last year’s plunge, go here. (Two years running — is this now a tradition?)

    This same time, years previous: the quotidian (1.16.17), on kindness, through the kitchen window, the quotidian (1.16.12), quick fruit cobbler, Julia’s chocolate almond cake.

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  • the quotidian (1.15.18)

    January 15, 2018
    Quotidian: daily, usual or customary; 
    everyday; ordinary; commonplace




    Why he prefers skiing.
    Gloating.

    Small person, big animals.

    Another (borrowed) smoker, another (delicious) brisket.

    Painted.

    Oops.
    All mine.

    After church, the debriefing.

    This same time, years previous: cranberry bread, the quotidian (1.13.14), GUATEMALA!!!, crumbs, vanilla cream cheese braids, rum raisin shortbread, inner voices.

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