Red-Handed Jill

Cottage cheese, herb tea.

Think I'll make a pizza tonight. Carmelize some onions, slice up some portabellas, chop up some garlic and fresh herbs, throw on some spinach and olives...

I usually avoid getting mangoes in supermarkets - yep, hard as diamonds and you can't smell 'em to see if they are indeed a mango or made out of wax or something. Fortunately for me, there's a produce area at the San Jose Flea Market that sells fresh mangoes - and they smell, feel and taste like mangoes are supposed to. Besides throwing rum on them and lighting them on fire, I've also dehydrated them and put them in tarts.

I just picked up Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows today. I'll start it after I finish Pied Piper (by Nevil Shute - I've been re-reading a lot of his books lately. My favorite is A Town Like Alice.)

I don't look any more - at one point, I was getting smaller, but the scale said I was weighing more. So I guage it on how well my pants fit.

Yikes! I've found ginger ale works best to settle an upset stomach.

Right-o: number two is the lie. I gained some weight during my 30's from working too many long hours and eating too late at night. I deliberately took over a year to lose it so that it would stay off. So it's a half-lie. Yep - I used to teach archery. I like knives, tomahawks and swords better, though. And I was approached by someone casting the first Indiana Jones movie. They didn't tell me what the movie was, just that it took place during the 40's or thereabouts. He saw me at my workplace and apparently I had the look they wanted for the movie, but I was too busy at the time so I said no. After I found out what the movie was, of course, there was much knashing of teeth.

1. I used to teach archery. 2. When I was younger, I lost almost twenty pounds in three months after taking up weight lifting and running. 3. I had a chance to be in the first Indiana Jones movie but turned it down.

Actually, the dinner film incident happened to me. I really don't think they did it on purpose - would defeat the purpose of owning a restaurant to put folks off their meals. I hope they retire that film very soon, though.

Woo hoo - congratulations Mad Jack and Janelle! I seem to recall you writing something like "more dangerous together than apart" - that kind of teamwork is a great attitude to have about marriage!

Already tried that. It helps marginally, but sailing involves a lot of involuntary movement, particularly in the back and that's a bit too much of a strain for my ribs right now. Le sigh...

I was all ready to go sailing on the Aldebaran today. But one of my ribs moved a bit too much and I'm in a lot of pain. Damn - it's been almost three weeks and I am SO ready for this to be over!

A Kitchen full of Knishes with Ketchup

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A big Freakin' pile of French Fries

Wow - there IS a lot of red here... Creamy Chocolate Custards

Alcoholic Anise Aperitif

I saw the movie not too long ago and it was a lion that had been covered in armor and trained to kill people. The movie was based on an incident that occurred in France in the 1760's or thereabout. The creature was called the Beast of Gevaudan and there were lots of theories about what the "beast" actually was, although I don't think anyone ever found out. However, a lot of people saw the creature with a man, so it could be they were working together to kill all those people. Slight tangent: see the movie again - the costumes are magnificent!

Okay - won't skip a letter this time... Yummy yams

Sinful Sundaes

Have you got a kraken in that pond?...

Yikes, Lady B - keep some ice on that nose!

Jack and I and some friends went to a local sushi restaurant for dinner tonight. A couple of years ago, they installed a projection system to go with the background music. They usually show pastoral scenes, historic buildings in Europe, butterflies, pretty birds, etc. So this evening, they started out with a movie with ocean scenes. Very peaceful: sea turtles, various tropical fish, that sort of thing. It ended and they queued up a new film. The new film was a nature study, but of a very different type. It started out with two male arctic grouses fighting over a female. And they really did the scene cuts to make it look even more dramatic and violent. Then there was a badger walking through the snow. Okay, this was reasonably peaceful - until it came upon a dead deer and proceeded to tear it apart. Next there was a male and female squirrel; it started out innocently enough... until they started having sex. And then a ferret came down and killed one of them. Lovely dinner theatre.

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My ribs are really bugging me today. They've been getting better and I started seeing a possible light at the end of the tunnel, but they started hurting pretty bad last night, particularly on the side, for some reason. Other than that, pretty good! I finished the design for a table I'm going to build for our encampment and already have some of the lumber for it. AND I'll be on the water both days this weekend!