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Saturday Snow
Jan. 11th, 2025 01:19 pmI woke up to a much clearer nose etc than recently and also snow! I do not know if these are related.
I had an enjoyable FF last night.
I finished read The Icarus Plot by Jenny Schwarz, which was short and enjoyable.
I also finished reading Shattering Dawn by JAK, which ties a bunch of Jayneverse elements together as it wraps up the trilogy. Delightful!
T. came by today to get his jersey for the follow-on program to NVUB. Unfortunately, he misread the email that said ASRHS as ABRHS, so he’ll try again at the correct location next week. In the meantime, I fed him breakfast and we chatted. As a result of the chat, I suggested that he might reach out to JK, who he recently saw in NJ, about some zoom or in person cooking lessons. JK and T. are getting along really well, and JK is both an excellent cook and a patient teacher, so I figure this might work well for both of them.
I cut up the really big squash (butternut) and put the pieces on sheets in the oven to roast. Then I pulled the thawed center cut beef shank and oxtail out of the fridge and had T. ask R. whether he intended two stews or one. Apparently one. So I browned the meet, deglazed with red wine and put some carrots and celery in, returned the meat, added a bunch of the package of thyme I still had around from T-weekend, rinsed the red wine split and put the water from that in. Rinsed a basically empty tamarind paste bottle with hot water and put that in. I attempted to put the pot into the oven with the squash, but I had to remove a rack for it to fit (and it doesn’t fit at all in the top of the Duo with the lid on). So I transferred all of the squash into the baker and was able to fit the baker and the stew onto the bottom rack.
I think I’m going to clean the counter next. I was thinking I’d work my way through the new lessons in Duo music today — and I may yet — or watch TV with A., but apparently what I’m doing first is a lot of cooking.
ETA: Today’s exercise was shoveling the driveway.
ETA: We went out to dinner with the Bs at Tavern in the Square. Fun! We tried to take the Subaru, but it was completely nonresponsive. This is probably my fault in some way. We took my car instead.
ETAYA: I had delightful phone conversations with A. (normally we chat on Tuesday evening) and with C. C. has been doing genealogy, and we almost certainly are distant cousins! Exciting developments!
I had an enjoyable FF last night.
I finished read The Icarus Plot by Jenny Schwarz, which was short and enjoyable.
I also finished reading Shattering Dawn by JAK, which ties a bunch of Jayneverse elements together as it wraps up the trilogy. Delightful!
T. came by today to get his jersey for the follow-on program to NVUB. Unfortunately, he misread the email that said ASRHS as ABRHS, so he’ll try again at the correct location next week. In the meantime, I fed him breakfast and we chatted. As a result of the chat, I suggested that he might reach out to JK, who he recently saw in NJ, about some zoom or in person cooking lessons. JK and T. are getting along really well, and JK is both an excellent cook and a patient teacher, so I figure this might work well for both of them.
I cut up the really big squash (butternut) and put the pieces on sheets in the oven to roast. Then I pulled the thawed center cut beef shank and oxtail out of the fridge and had T. ask R. whether he intended two stews or one. Apparently one. So I browned the meet, deglazed with red wine and put some carrots and celery in, returned the meat, added a bunch of the package of thyme I still had around from T-weekend, rinsed the red wine split and put the water from that in. Rinsed a basically empty tamarind paste bottle with hot water and put that in. I attempted to put the pot into the oven with the squash, but I had to remove a rack for it to fit (and it doesn’t fit at all in the top of the Duo with the lid on). So I transferred all of the squash into the baker and was able to fit the baker and the stew onto the bottom rack.
I think I’m going to clean the counter next. I was thinking I’d work my way through the new lessons in Duo music today — and I may yet — or watch TV with A., but apparently what I’m doing first is a lot of cooking.
ETA: Today’s exercise was shoveling the driveway.
ETA: We went out to dinner with the Bs at Tavern in the Square. Fun! We tried to take the Subaru, but it was completely nonresponsive. This is probably my fault in some way. We took my car instead.
ETAYA: I had delightful phone conversations with A. (normally we chat on Tuesday evening) and with C. C. has been doing genealogy, and we almost certainly are distant cousins! Exciting developments!