Hi, Mephisto!!! It has been a little lonely at the Feelings thread, being the only girl there recently and everything. I hope you aren't so tired of dodging bullets that you've gone away for good or anything!!
I planted all my bulbs in the garden yesterday, with my daughter's help. I dug up the ground, and she put the bulbs in with the growth stimulator dust and covered them up. I must admit I got a little lazy with what turned out to be over 250 bulbs (after I finished going crazy at the garden center). I started out with very organized little collections of three to five bulbs in each sweet little hole, but at the end I was digiing foot-long furrows and just lining them up in there. Now I am going to spend the winter sitting all bundled up on the patio, watching them push through the earth.
I found a little blurb in Newsweek that amused me, and I thought you might like to see it, also:
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Americans are constantly defending the intellectual merits of pop culture as college curricula. Now Germans are joining the fray. On Nov. 6 Berlin's Free University launches a new lecture series titled "Myth and Politics: Diana, From the Princess of Wales to the Queen of Hearts." The not-for-credit series of 13 interdisciplinary lectures explores parallels to Evita Peron and the Virgin Mary, among others. Says political scientist and series organizer Sigrid Koch-Baumgarten: "As social scientists we are interested in trying to understand [the Diana phenomenon]."
What have you been up to, anyway? I have a bunch of very soft persimmons that are starting to drip, actually, so I am going to create a recipe for persimmon/walnut/date bar cookies with orange glaze? Doesn't that sound good? I have become too lazy to make anything other than bar cookies, since making a hundred little balls and flattening them out or whatever is very time consuming, and anyway I think bar cookies are chewier and taste better anyway. It's too bad there is no recipe in any of my cookbooks!!!! I guess using one for applesauce bars or something would be the closest. Do you ever cook like that, Mephisto, making it up as you go along? |
