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Showing posts with label better luck next time. Show all posts
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Sunday, January 7, 2024

Better luck etc

Current reading,  title pinched from the book group of a library I used to go,  yes, yet another, but the group, though interesting people, was too big for discussions.  You practically had to take a number to talk. So I dropped out but stayed on the mailing list, and this is the current selection (bookgroupspeak)

It's great, about Reno, the divorce and remarriage city in Nevada,  on a dude ranch where women stayed to play cowgirl and establish six weeks' residency for their quickie divorces.  Here's one reason I like it


I never knew the origin of "suicide blonde".
 The book is  funny and has quite a bit of wisdom including the kinds of aphorism I wish I'd thought of.

Here's how the roast dinner worked out



Before, butternut squash, carrots, onions, diced Serrano peppers, plant based hot sausage, olive oil, spiced with caraway seeds, cumin and garam masala, half an hour at 400°f


After, ready to make three meals, and very good, too. The sausage worked out really well.  Dessert was yogurt with blueberries and a spoonful of apricot/cranberry jam.

The weather being: heavy rain, alternating with very heavy rain, the day was about doing laundry, the new batch of soap working fine, cooking, reading, and loafing. Also finding little bits for you.

Several blogistas are working or retired librarians, so this is for you

And for those of us who love Chaucer and the Mamas and the Papas

 
Some of the licks in that very song can be found in medieval music. They really knew their music.

Happy day everyone, stay dry. Unless you really love walking in the rain, Tinder style.. for those who really did get snow, here's a cosy thought