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Dec. 29th, 2004 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickI am done making cookies. Really. For real. I'm tired of cookies and I do not want to make any more any time soon. Next December is probably when I will be ready to consider making cookies again. All I need now is a pie and I'll be all done with holiday cooking obligations. I would have done the pie this AM but I didn't have enough of the right kind of flour to proceed. (My kitchen has three kinds of flour, depending on what I want to do with it. Whole wheat flour is not good for pie crusts. High-gluten white bread flour is also not good for pie crusts.) I'll hit the grocery store tonight and there will be pie tomorrow so that I don't have that hanging over me any further. I don't like being Damocles.
I saw a pileated woodpecker out the window this morning. The pileated is probably the largest woodpecker in the eastern United States since I'm pretty sure the ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct. (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gwangi, can I get an Amen or whatever on this?) Pileated woodpeckers are about the size of a crow, striking black and white birds with red-crested heads. Although I grew up here, in these woods, I never saw one in person until about two years ago. Now, while they're not an everyday sight, they're around enough that anyone who spends a reasonable amount of time in the woods and isn't completely oblivious can see one. I'd say that, these days, they're as easy to see as wild turkeys.
I saw a pileated woodpecker out the window this morning. The pileated is probably the largest woodpecker in the eastern United States since I'm pretty sure the ivory-billed woodpecker is extinct. (
gwangi, can I get an Amen or whatever on this?) Pileated woodpeckers are about the size of a crow, striking black and white birds with red-crested heads. Although I grew up here, in these woods, I never saw one in person until about two years ago. Now, while they're not an everyday sight, they're around enough that anyone who spends a reasonable amount of time in the woods and isn't completely oblivious can see one. I'd say that, these days, they're as easy to see as wild turkeys.
