I’ve started to read comic books. Ahem. Graphic novels. A friend of mine, Lord English from the Stately English Manor, got me into it. I read an interview with Alan Moore on Salon, and enjoyed his V for Vendetta comic…
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Dinobreadasaurus
Daylight Savings threw everyone into a tizzy on Sunday. Baby Harbat decided nap time would come much, much later than normal, then spent first 20 minutes of nap standing up in her crib, throwing every loose object onto the floor,…
Tastes Hobbity
[Disclaimer: If you haven’t seen the Lord of the Rings movies, this post will make no sense to you.] [Disclaimer 2: If you have seen the movies, this still won’t make sense. Onward!] Two dreams about making bread. …
Mock…yeah!
I went to sleep last night with a mockingbird singing outside. It’s luxurious, really, to hear birdsong at night when you go to bed, like falling asleep in chair on a summer afternoon, a glass of lemonade sweating beside you.…
It’s the Smell
I cut down several trees this weekend, though it wasn’t the axe-swinging cathartic event I’d hoped. The first was a Chinese elm that had sprung up in a row of hedges in front of our house. Beautiful multi-trunked thing and…
Explosions etc.
It’s a mixed bag today. Jujubees, peanuts, and that weird orange dried fruit you always leave until the end. I managed to shatter two baking stones while making bread this weekend. Evidently super-heated iron skillet plus cheap baking stone…
Bread! Bread! Circus.
I’ve started to make bread. In the last 6 months I’ve made several types by various methods. It’s the smell…if there is such a thing. The smell of baking bread! It began with the no-knead bread recipe in Cooks…
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