August 15, 2012
-
2/27/11 Just… y’know… Stuff
~*~*~
* I wonder if the Z Man’s cat ever gets to sleep as soundly and blissfully unaware as Junior. Somehow I doubt it! He’s so comfortable indoors now, when he chooses to come in…
He’s sticking his wet nose on my arm as I type, wanting supper. I guess I’d better feed him before he starts yowling – he never did that when we fed him outside! – and wakes Shane up. Brb!* Difficult to open a tin of cat food quietly… hehehe. But Shane sleeps on, and Junior tucks in. * Dawes Arboretum, down the road from us, have only just tapped their maples and hung buckets to collect the sap a couple of days ago. Bloody hell! They’re slow off the mark! Shane tapped half a dozen here some two or three weeks ago and we’ve got almost enough boiled down for a good couple of 12oz jars already! And more on the go, too. Maples need a few freeze-thaw-freeze-thaw cycles for sap to run properly – I think Dawes have left it well too late.* Mom flies off to London on Monday, a trip she’s been planning and looking forward to for months. I wish I was going with her! London will always have a fond spot in my heart as a place where lots of good things happened – passing my NCLEX exam, and passing my interview at the American Embassy. Plus that wonderful, unexpected day I spent sightseeing after the exam, when I’d thought I’d be in the exam room all day! Mom’s going to bring me back some Walnut Whips and OXO stock cubes. WOOT! English chocolate is the BEST.
* Shane was explaining to me about car oil additives like Slick 50 this evening. I’m not a mechanic… and he was searching his brain trying to think of a “kitchen analogy” for me, lol! The difference between men and women…* We eat a lot of cottage cheese. The tubs come in handy for leftovers when they’re empty… it’s a bit of a lucky dip when you pull one of five tubs out of the fridge as to whether you’re actually going to find cottage cheese in there or not! I nearly made a cold beef stroganof sandwich earlier. Eeeee!* We did a bit of work on the garden today. We’re scaling right down from the enormous thing we’ve had the last two years, to just a small 4′ x 6′ area. Once Shane’s working too, which will be soon now winter is almost over and the heating system doesn’t need such round-the-clock care, we just won’t have time for a big garden. So we’ll plant some stuff in the small plot, and leave the rest to be taken over by volunteer tomatoes and whatever else re-surfaces from last year. We like tomatoes, so it’s all good. * Saw a trailer for a new movie coming out, “Source Code”. It looks good! And we’ve decided we’re actually going to go to the movies to see it, woot! The last movie we went to see was ages ago, so this I’m looking forward to! It’ll be nice to have a “day out” that doesn’t involve the Post Office, recycling center, and laundromat, lol!!
* I’m really, really missing my old camera, my Vivitar Vivicam 8325. Since the motor burned out and it died on me, I’ve bought two cameras… an Olympus something-or-other which I hated and gave to Roger, and a newer model Vivitar, which I’m not feeling the love for either. It has a digital zoom but not optical, so distance shots aren’t up to much. And its macro facility is practically non-existent. I wish I’d been bright, and just bought another 8325. Ah well… it’s my birthday in a couple of months – I might treat myself. Yay. THAT’S a plan!* I recently read “The Broken Shore”, by Peter Temple, and can’t recommend it highly enough. I started it on the Saturday afternoon, and had it finished by Sunday evening – literally a book I couldn’t put down! I’d never heard of Temple before, but it seems he’s written many crime novels and won several awards… I’ll definitely be picking up more of his stuff before too long. Set in Australia, this book was both awful and wonderful at the same time. I LOVED it.* That’s about it. I’m going to check the sap one more time, turn the flame right down so it can be left overnight, and head for bed. G’nite guys! Tune in My Head“Undertow” – Helen Watson
