The Thanksgiving Review

Happy post-Thanksgivingness, everyone! What did you have for din-dins? We had: 

• Roasted chestnuts
• Squash cakes (think latkes only with yellow squash, served with sour cream and salsa)
• Wild rice soup  (with sherry)
• Turkey/gravy
• Stuffing (with toasted pine nuts)
• Cranberry-raisin relish (the leftovers of which I am currently consuming)
• Sweet potato balls (with bourbon)
• Camp Hilary cornbread
• Green bean casserole
• Broccoli
• Cauliflower 
• Pumpkin stuffed with sweet stuffing
• Apple pie (with Cool Whip)
• Pumpkin cheesecake (with cognac) 

To date, the only leftovers finished in this household are the soup and the cornbread. Dan thought he finished the turkey this morning, but tonight I found another container of it. To be fair, we did also finish off the leftover gnocchi from friday night, and the hot and sour soup from wednesday.

I are full.

Something Interesting About My Life

So... I was going to post more often. Really. I meant it. Thing is, there's nothing much to talk about. I can't tell you about the house project I recently finished, because I haven't finished any. I can't tell you about the exciting project at work, because they are a) all proprietary, and b) not terribly exciting. I could tell you about my dinner, as requested by Dearest Uncle Paul... it consisted of ravioli from Costco with a tomato-cream sauce which I did make myself and a glass (or two) of cheap wine. I ate it out of a bowl. A blue one. Later I'm going to run the dishwasher with the bowl in it.

Yeeeeup. That's pretty much it. I put fertilizer on the lawn a couple of weeks ago. That was thrilling, lemmetellya. Last week I bought a new dining room table. It's for the formal dining room, which I might paint sometime next year. Why do I need two places to eat, anyway? So I can have two tables upon which to put piles of unopened mail and papers I should file someday? I eat at the coffee table more often than not, anyway. It's hockey season, after all. But I have a new table, and I'd show you a picture of it, but it's in boxes still.

Ah, posts without pictures are so dull. There has to be a picture around here somewhere...
Ah. Here we go. This is from a recent sunday morning while I was puppysitting. It was chilly that morning... about 45 degrees and rainy... and Karma (left) and Pasha (right) and I had ourselves a good long snuggle in bed, followed by breakfast and some more snuggling in bed, then a walk and some snuggling in the living room while watching football. That's the stuff!

Juli 1, Weeds 0

Gradually... slowly... finally I finished the strip of garden next to the garage. When I moved in, it contained two rather random-looking small trees or large bushes, a big hole, a large leafy plant, and a bunch of weeds. As of this past saturday, it contains two rather random-looking small trees or large bushes, four hibiscus...es... hibisci... um... hibiscus plants, all with different colored blooms (which I may have to wait until spring to show you), and a rather unhappy-looking azalea that was hiding under the leafy plant before I ruthlessly pulled it from the nourishing earth.

I just realized you can't see the azalea in this picture, but that's ok. It probably wants to take some time to freshen up before you see it. But look! MULCH! Landscape fabric and MULCH! Like a growed-up would do...

The hibiscus plants, from left to right, are peach, bright yellow, a color that I can only describe as what you would get if you mixed hot pink and fire engine red, and pale orange (not the same as peach). If the azalea allows and I can find, there might be a white one next year, too.