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which_chickThe weekend out went well. I made crepes of varying pronunciations (crepe rhymes with pep but also with grape, I guess) but no matter what they were called, they were yummy. I have leftover caramel sauce, which I think I wouldn't if I hadn't given people four choices of topping (apple-caramel, black raspberry, sour cherry, and peach). I did have about the right amounts of ingredients, though, and that was nice.
The pies (two) went swimmingly. Most folks ate theirs warm, with ice cream on it. I'm not a big fan of warm apple pie because it's all sloppy and runny inside and I'd rather have lovely, sedimentary layers of firmly-packed apple goodness instead. I prefer my pie lukewarm and I don't trash the (gorgeous) crust by dumping ice cream on top of it. That, however, is just me -- others do as they will with the pie. It's not like I can't have pie any time I want. I am the pie factory. I do not have to go to weekends out with friends so that someone can make me a pie.
Roy's wobble board got tried out by nearly everyone, to a reasonable amount of amusement.
I made a lot of headway on my knitting and taught Cora (Cousin Sue's older daughter) to knit because I'm of a compatible handedness and Cousin Sue is not. Cora seemed quite pleased with the knitting and she made a very solid effort, for not being a grownup yet. She did inform us that she was not a child, she was a preadolescent. (She is, I think 11.)
We also took a walk along the Lehigh Canal walkway thingie, which was a nice outing. It's a good, reasonably-level place to walk and we were not the only folks out on a sunny November Sunday afternoon. What remains of the lock structures is pretty interesting stuff and it's got waterfalls, which is never a bad thing. The Lehigh River (next to the canal, kinda) is bigger (wider) than I thought it was but apparently not very deep. It looks watercraft-navigable, though. Hrm.
The pies (two) went swimmingly. Most folks ate theirs warm, with ice cream on it. I'm not a big fan of warm apple pie because it's all sloppy and runny inside and I'd rather have lovely, sedimentary layers of firmly-packed apple goodness instead. I prefer my pie lukewarm and I don't trash the (gorgeous) crust by dumping ice cream on top of it. That, however, is just me -- others do as they will with the pie. It's not like I can't have pie any time I want. I am the pie factory. I do not have to go to weekends out with friends so that someone can make me a pie.
Roy's wobble board got tried out by nearly everyone, to a reasonable amount of amusement.
I made a lot of headway on my knitting and taught Cora (Cousin Sue's older daughter) to knit because I'm of a compatible handedness and Cousin Sue is not. Cora seemed quite pleased with the knitting and she made a very solid effort, for not being a grownup yet. She did inform us that she was not a child, she was a preadolescent. (She is, I think 11.)
We also took a walk along the Lehigh Canal walkway thingie, which was a nice outing. It's a good, reasonably-level place to walk and we were not the only folks out on a sunny November Sunday afternoon. What remains of the lock structures is pretty interesting stuff and it's got waterfalls, which is never a bad thing. The Lehigh River (next to the canal, kinda) is bigger (wider) than I thought it was but apparently not very deep. It looks watercraft-navigable, though. Hrm.
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Date: 2004-11-15 10:16 pm (UTC)Thanks for friending me, by the way! :) Do we know each other from somewhere, or is this just a bit of awesome internet craziness?
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Date: 2004-11-15 10:56 pm (UTC)See, I was looking at recently rediscovered mammal-ish things, back when the 3' humanoids were discovered in Indonesia on Flores or wherever. Turns out there's an ungulate called a saola (http://www.ultimateungulate.com/Artiodactyla/Pseudoryx_nghetinhensis.html) located in Laos or similar southeastern asia area and an almiqui, recently rediscovered as not-extinct in the forests of Cuba. So, y'know, I was googling to find out about that because I don't know what-for about the almiqui and for some reason I thought I should. (It's best to just take stuff like this as written -- trying to understand is a bad idea. That way lies madness.) Anyway, there you were on the first google page. Also, an almiqui is one of the pictures in circulation on Pharyngula (http://www.pharyngula.org), a blog I read pretty regularly, so I encountered it there, too.
I don't know all that about field biology, but when I pulled the homepage that you had linked to the livejournal, I got ... like Canada, with more violence and less health care and I don't let go of prose like that without good cause. I figured you'd maybe write more of it if I kept track of you, hence the friending.
So that's that. You don't have to talk about Cuban insectivores if you don't want to... but that's how I found you. I'm here for the all-spelling, all-punctuating good prose. Local theater information is also mildly amusing as I have family that does that sort of thing.
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Date: 2004-11-16 03:05 am (UTC)If it's good writing you're after, I have a friend who does gorgeous poetry & prose on her journal. I should ask her permission before I lead you to it, but I'm sure you can find it just by skimming the "friends" page!
Your last few entries have been great fun to read; I'm glad to have you on my friendlist. A toast to internet madness, then! On the web, nobody knows you're an insectivore. ;)