Notice two strange things about this bottle of milk? Firstly, it’s a bottle. Secondly, it’s purplish. When we saw it in Hannaford’s we were at first horrified. Then I realized that it would be just the right ingredient for making blueberry pancakes. It was! I didn’t even need blueberries. It’s delicious just to drink, too.
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Sept 12, Print shop
Remember these? The second time I was in Japan (and there were only two times, for the same trade show in successive years) I saw someone demonstrating a gizmo called Print-Gocco in front of a big stationery store on the Ginza. It was (and is) an instant photo silk screen printer. You put a postcard-sized …
Apple Harvest – 3
We’ve picked apples and made pies a couple of times already. We made another apple crisp with cortlands today. The apple peeler-corer-slicer gizmo works great on these crisp, fresh apples. I also made a batch of spiced crabapples, using the recipe from Joy of Cooking. Time will tell whether or not they’re any good. With …
Reading list
I’ve read three books — wait! No! four! (finished ’em! My kids don’t believe I ever do that) recently, partly thanks to being on airplanes on my way to California and home from Utah, so it’s time for some reviews. 1. Airplane reading, A Fatal Thaw by Dana Stabenow. It’s a mystery story set in …
Aug. 29, Gualala to Willets
These Naked Ladies were growing right outside our motel: See, no leaves at all, just the flower stalk. OK, so that was another slightly mean trick to play on people using search engines. The woman running the Gualala Country Inn told us that the best place for tide pools was McKerriker state park north of …
Callaway cars
The company I work for has customers who do pretty fancy mechanical engineering. One of our customers adds their products (designed with our software) to Corvettes to make extra-powerful cars. They brought a couple of them over yesterday to show off. I’m more of a basic transportation, “my other car is a bicycle” guy than …
Another sheep festival
Say, here’s another kind of sheep festival, more than a little out of the way: The Trailing of the Sheep in Ketchum and Hailey, Idaho. I imagine I picked up the card about it at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada. I think there will be less yarn and lots more sheep than at …
Knit hiatus
My knitting is on a break for several days. The back of the knuckle of my left index finger got between a sledge hammer and a wooden stake that I was driving. That description makes it sound worse than it feels, but it looks pretty bad too. I saw my doctor this afternoon and he …
Aug. 28, Point Reyes to Gualala
Arlene has always wanted to see good tide pools with things like sea annemones in ’em. We asked at the visitor center where we could find some at Point Reyes. The rangers looked at the tide tables and told us that we were probably too late that day, but that there was a chance at …
Aug. 31, Winnemucca to Pocatello
Two great place names in one post title! Woo hoo! I’ll put them up with any place names anywhere. Add Ogalalla (Nebraska) and Canajoharie and Tonawanda and Cheektowaga (NY) and you’re well on your way to a top ten. It reminds me of a song by a Canadian folk group, Stringband, “Mail Sortin’ Man”, in …