hay-all no! that dang sunshine wuz sa dang brite.

tomorrow i will make a pork loin in the slow cooker with shallots, mushrooms and hungarian paprika. we will have it with mashed potatoes, mushroom gravy and sweet white corn on the cob.

it is nearing holiday cooking time and i am starting to get excited about it. especially since i made my first lemon curd from scratch in saint paul back in september.

so now, the fsmas dinner desert – a gingerbread trifle with blackberry sauce and lemon curd – will be 100% from scratch for the first time. usually i buy the curd in an imported jar from england.  this time i will just have to stand at the stove whisking egg yolks until i thnk my arm will fall off.

omg.

i found a picture from the summer of 1985.

i was just turned 17 and had more bangs than i have hair now at 41.

HA!

note the earring – because not only did i have my boogie shoes from the super ’70s, but i was also a star child of the glam bam ’80s.

HA – AGAIN!

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photo credit: ‘god’s ruler’.

and i like it when the bearish guys cover it…..

after all the rain we have been having. usual fall pattern. i have an old bay bird in the slow cooker and red bean turkey chili in the dutch oven.

R is outa town, again. M didn’t go this time so she is terminally depressed because she knows R is frolicking outside somewhere all weekend without her.  all she can think is what a good girl she has been to get ditched.

i have that earth movie with james earl jones narrating in queue on the push button dvr thing and think i will go crawl under a soft blanket on the couch – console M while we both are very smelling of the good things in the kitchen.

This tiny key pad is a challenge but I think I am starting to like late night in bed iPod blogging. I am sure it is way more exciting for me than anyone reading…

By the way R did not wake me last night so there was no screaching surprise.

Oh well then ……

-blogged from my iPod

Hi ho. It is another blog post from the dark comfy bedroom before night night.

So lately R has been bad about waking me up when he comes to bed. Tonight I am planning a loud screaching surprise if he does it. Should be fun, at least for me.

-blogged from my iPod

It is pitch black dark in the bedroom and I can hear the cool rain falling and dripping outside. i love fall rain the most I think of all the rain there is.

–bloged from my iPod

Aerial view hints at scope, cost of Atlanta flood  | ajc.com

yikes!

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back from my week of kool aide drinking at corporate hq. here are a few shots taken during our bus tour of minneapolis/saint paul….