When he was around The Botanist was my #1 apple dessert fan, especially pie, but he’d take crisp or even sauce. He was also my #1 peeler. I did a crisp today and thought of him through nine apples, Cameo I believe they were called. Came out pretty tasty. Yay for Vietnamese cinnamon.
This is a taste of Randall Munroe’s exemplary “Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words,” in which he marshals exceptional drawings and a vocabulary of only 1000 words to explain complicated things. The 1000 (aka “ten hundred”) words apparently include flies but not ants. We gave away the copy we bought, and I think we’ll buy another copy for ourselves…yay, dead-tree books!
26 December 2015 at 6:44 pm
wmcourtois@ababsurdo.com says:
I took Elizabeth to her —>first<— football game last month (THE LIONS WON). She explained what was happening… "Knock 'em down! Run into each other!!!".
Then I saw, "Thing Explainer", at Literati Bookstore in Ann Arbor. I thought I might get a copy for Chrismas… but it didn't happen.
27 December 2015 at 7:26 am
Sammy says:
Awww. Sweet story—the football one. Maybe you can turn around latter with a self-purchased gift?