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Monday: walk, baking
Jul. 24th, 2023 02:48 pmI walked with M.
I made more granola. I left the salt out, on the theory that we would eat it more slowly. It still tastes really good.
I pulled some frozen end slices of bread out of the freezer and made bread pudding with eggs, cinnamon maple sugar, vanilla and bailey’s almondmilk. Yum.
I am currently baking 2 loaves of zucchini bread.
T. went to see Oppenheimer today.
ETA:
It was book group tonight. I _thought_I sent the email out in the morning, but apparently I only sent it to myself. *sigh* A. noticed and asked me if we were skipping, I resent but by then it was after 4 pm, so I started making phone calls. There were 4 of us, and one person had not read the book and planned on skipping anyway. I didn’t have a number for the other regular attendee, so I don’t know if he planned on attending or not. Oh well! We picked a book for next month (Where the Forest Meets the Stars, by Glendy Vanderah) and J. talked about _Magpie: a Memoir_, which is by Frieda Hughes, the surviving daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. J. did not much care for Magpie, and had no idea either about the author or even recognized the parents’ names when I noticed and got super excited and promptly bought the book. Sy Montgomery has a favorable comment on Magpie; this group tends to really love Montgomery. I’m a bit more meh than they are. However, this constellation of facts — J. is meh on the book, author is daughter of those two parents, Montgomery likes it as nature writing, and it is _obviously_ operating at multiple levels — resulted in me immediately buying it on Amazon. I didn’t mess around with samples, or making sure I liked the writing style. I don’t really care — this things has so much potential as an answer to key a lot of questions I have about families with really high social, mental and emotional health burden AND have individual members who are ludicrously … high achievers? Not sure that is the right term here? Not your Average Jane, for sure.
The non-attendee who didn’t read the book is currently immersed in Robinson’s _Ministry of the Future_. I’m not sure whether I will attempt that or not. We also talked about _Ithaca_, by Claire North / Catherine Webb as a possibility.
I did the long walk by myself and took a shower after because it was still really humid out. While walking, I chatted with Priestess, which was nice. R. went to see Le Tigre. I watched TRMS and went to bed at what felt like a really late hour, but was really shortly after 11 pm.
I made more granola. I left the salt out, on the theory that we would eat it more slowly. It still tastes really good.
I pulled some frozen end slices of bread out of the freezer and made bread pudding with eggs, cinnamon maple sugar, vanilla and bailey’s almondmilk. Yum.
I am currently baking 2 loaves of zucchini bread.
T. went to see Oppenheimer today.
ETA:
It was book group tonight. I _thought_I sent the email out in the morning, but apparently I only sent it to myself. *sigh* A. noticed and asked me if we were skipping, I resent but by then it was after 4 pm, so I started making phone calls. There were 4 of us, and one person had not read the book and planned on skipping anyway. I didn’t have a number for the other regular attendee, so I don’t know if he planned on attending or not. Oh well! We picked a book for next month (Where the Forest Meets the Stars, by Glendy Vanderah) and J. talked about _Magpie: a Memoir_, which is by Frieda Hughes, the surviving daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. J. did not much care for Magpie, and had no idea either about the author or even recognized the parents’ names when I noticed and got super excited and promptly bought the book. Sy Montgomery has a favorable comment on Magpie; this group tends to really love Montgomery. I’m a bit more meh than they are. However, this constellation of facts — J. is meh on the book, author is daughter of those two parents, Montgomery likes it as nature writing, and it is _obviously_ operating at multiple levels — resulted in me immediately buying it on Amazon. I didn’t mess around with samples, or making sure I liked the writing style. I don’t really care — this things has so much potential as an answer to key a lot of questions I have about families with really high social, mental and emotional health burden AND have individual members who are ludicrously … high achievers? Not sure that is the right term here? Not your Average Jane, for sure.
The non-attendee who didn’t read the book is currently immersed in Robinson’s _Ministry of the Future_. I’m not sure whether I will attempt that or not. We also talked about _Ithaca_, by Claire North / Catherine Webb as a possibility.
I did the long walk by myself and took a shower after because it was still really humid out. While walking, I chatted with Priestess, which was nice. R. went to see Le Tigre. I watched TRMS and went to bed at what felt like a really late hour, but was really shortly after 11 pm.