Musings

When I ran to get the camera, there was another layer of bubbles below the base of the bowl that made a second cool layer of circles. Pfft. That’s bubbles.

Can. Not. Get. Into. Game of Thrones. The text version. Seems draggy.

Can. Not. Get. Into le Carré’s latest, A Delicate Truth. Seems like a lot of repetition from pieces of many of his last few novels.

And, the library bumped me even though I had a hold on my Book Club book. Sigh.

As to the Romans, today I worked on figuring out the Pompey complex, that is, a theater, portico, curia, and other bits, away from the Forum, over in the Campus Martius. The other day it was Augustus’s Mausoleum. So, right at the moment I’m working south.

Movie report: watched Netflix’s delivery of Lars and the Single Girl. I wouldn’t have put it in the comedy category. Pretty much happy to watch…Patricia Clarkson in anything.

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I haven’t made this in quite a while, one of those dishes that just fell off the rotation out of distraction rather than dislike. It’s my riff on the filling for spanakopita or ravioli or lasagne, with ricotta and spinach, some sautéed onion, and, in this case, some Gruyère and a bit of monterey jack, plus lots of freshly ground black pepper. Just the filling, though, without the wrapper. And an extra dusting of jack at the end….

Sometimes I put in an egg or eggs; this time I used one. The crucial angle is always how much of the water I squeeze out of the spinach. This time I wasn’t terribly diligent, and I should have squeezed it a bit drier.

I have some ricotta and Gruyère left; I think that in a few days I’ll make a mixed veg version to use that up.

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Fence in Spanish, at least the most common word, is cerca, as in, essentially, the thing that encircles or encloses. Plastic fencing, in this case.

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Lots that was charming, lots to find photogenic, at the Lantern Parade up the eastside Beltline. Loved this beating-heart puppet-pair.

Parade took maybe an hour to go by at the start where we were standing, finding friends in the crowd, or maybe it just seemed like it. Great fun!

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Once again, Atlanta wants trolleys. They started installation farthest out and are working toward downtown, and this is the first stretch I’ve seen in place. They did considerable work on infrastructure under the road before the they installed the tracks. I guess this won’t be the kind hauled by drays or there’d be a poop-shoot built in!

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Today was a day of more accomplishments that didn’t take long to do.

Puttered. Loadda laundry. Teeth professionally cleaned and inspected. Discovered bakery was closed for Rosh Hashanah (that didn’t take long). Puttered. Made last-minute menu decision for dinner (thanks Joe—as in the trader guy).

And so it goes.

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Nice campsite! I keep thinking a glow-in-the-dark tent might be difficult to sleep in, though….

Does it come with glowing chiggers, too? Heh.

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When I was shopping for dinner groceries:

Fact 1: we hadn’t had any corn-on-the-cob yet this summer.

Fact 2: I read an article recently about how many more micro-nutrients are in plants of color than in highly bred low-color varieties.

Fact 3: I needed a starch for the menu, and we’ve had rice and potatoes many times recently.

Fact 4: no kidding—$6 for five ears. (I hear opportunity knocking for serious gardeners.)

And, my heavens, was that red maize tasty! All the way to the cob. (Red cob.)

And, yes, a splurge, but ya gotta do that once in a while—if you at all can—in some form or another….

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Last month (is it really September? Oh my), I encountered several versions of stories about the charity organization that decided to just give money, no strings attached, directly to the people they sought to help. (NPR transcript here.)

Turns out, this village in Kenya, the recipients took their windfall and invested it in their futures. However, one thing many people did that First World outsiders found interesting was, they often used some of the money to replace their thatch roofs with metal roofs. I can understand that. Thatch involves maintenance, and apparently, in this area anyway, the right thatch-grass had to be purchased, and was not inexpensive. The metal took up-front money few had, but seemed an obvious purchase for many—clearly!

This roof (not grass/thatch) looks like it would have taken at least annual attention….

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I’ve been thinking about KW spending the weekend where she has views of Canada (me? jealous? no comment…). Searching the archive for a picture, I came across this, collected when we were last in that foreign nation.

Needless to say, we left this fine beverage (?) right there on the shelf.

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