Christmas tree FAIL. Plus super-tasty gingerbread muffins!
So, as you saw in the last post, we got a beautiful Christmas tree, and everything was going swimmingly. Even Zelda was (mostly) leaving it alone. I took the plunge and strung up the lights and garland, and Palmer put the angel on top. https://www.flickr.com/photos/83441679@N00/15732262249 Pretty nice, right? (I’ll give you one guess why […]
Food: Not pretty enough for Pinterest, but tasty as all hellz (a recipe for Shepherd’s Pie)
I’ve been planning on (re)introducing food posts to this blog for a while, now, so here goes. (It’s a particularly good time because I need to review The Bone Clocks but am having a hard time settling it in my mind.) I have a ginormous stack of cookbooks at home, but I tend to get most […]
(Dog) Food: How to make Alligators!
At the beginning of this year, I made the decision to stick with book-themed posts rather than make my random deviations into food and photography, and, well, I’m breaking that rule here because I want to Share the Wealth. Alligators are Zelda’s very favorite treat. She pricks up her ears every time she hears the […]
2013 Book #59: Snow Country
Snow Country is a short Japanese novel that’s been on my list for quite a while. It’s another one that Goodreads insisted I’d like, so it kept popping up in my recommendations list. I really should listen to them more often because I really liked this novel. It’s just so short that I read it […]
2013 Book #58: The Magus
The Magus wasn’t at all what I was expecting, and it’s a lesson in Don’t Judge a Book By Its Cover (or its size). It’s a brick of a book, and the name made me think I’d be getting into something like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, which I loved. But no. It’s nothing like Jonathan Strange and […]
2011 Book #28: My Life in France
My original plan for this blog was 50 novels in a year, but a friend recommended and loaned me Julia Child‘s My Life in France. It sounded interesting enough, and though I’m usually not one for nonfiction, I figured I’d give it a try. My Life in France is an “autobiography” about Julia Child’s years […]