16 March 2010
Trains & Boats & Planes
posted by Jenne at 8:39 AM 1 comments
19 October 2009
It's cold now. That's right, it's even cold here in the South. We turned the heat on in the house, we found most of our hats, mittens and scarves. I put the down comforter on the bed yesterday and it's awesome. Our bedroom used to be a porch and it's the only part of the house with the original, single-paned, wicked drafty, with slightly-cracked-glass-in-them windows. It's difficult enough to get out of bed when the floor's cold in the first place, but trying to get up when the floor's cold, the air's freezing and it's still dark out is not how I want to get up.
posted by Jenne at 12:23 PM 1 comments
re: heating, home improvement
18 August 2009
garden redux
We turned over and raked out all of the empty soil for a fresh start. Jenne managed to fit in about half of our thirty-odd basil starts, and I planted new rows of beets, peas, carrots, soy beans, and lettuce. I even spread out some mulch on the path (mostly applewood shavings from turning my first goblets! check 'em out on flickr).
posted by george at 3:28 PM 2 comments
28 July 2009
Psychics, burritos.
If you missed it last time: I started a second blog, it's about food, and it's freshly updated! Check it out! This week it's about burritos and coffee.
posted by Jenne at 7:23 PM 4 comments
re: cats, petitdejournal
21 July 2009
News
News
Originally uploaded by lady grey cupcake
...and a blurry picture! (All the pictures we take seem to be coming out a little blurry lately.) Featured here are my new book, The Bread Builders, my new mug and some new bread! The book is really fascinating, it talks not only about masonry ovens and how they're built but also about how bread is made - not recipes so much as the mystery of baker's percentages. Between the chapters are little profiles of bakeries, like American Flatbread or the Cheeseboard and it's exciting to know what and where they're talking about. I'm just about to start the section on baker's percentages. Eee!
We picked six ears of corn from the garden last night and eagerly set some water boiling. George shucked them and we were pleasantly surprised to find they hadn't been ravaged by various bugs. We were not pleasantly surprised when we finally got to sink our teeth into it and it was ... kind of mushy, sticking to our teeth, and a little flavorless. Did we pick it too soon? Too late? What happened, corn?
Luckily we had some other dinner to fall back on. This leads me to my actual news which is that I've started up a second blog! It's really going to be all about food! I invite you all to head on over to Pétit Déjournal and read about my new project: Food Day. (At least that's what I'm calling it until something more elegant comes along.) Bicycats will continue and will still just be about what's happening with our riveting lives and how cute our cats are.
posted by Jenne at 5:43 PM 1 comments
re: books, food, garden, new projects
06 July 2009
Catsup
posted by Jenne at 1:50 PM 0 comments
re: stuff
08 June 2009
eye eye capt'n
I'm leaving for VT on wednesday! Forrest, the banjo playing lab guy from work, thought it sounded like fun, so he'll be coming too. It'll be good to have a co-pilot. 17hrs of driving is a long time.
posted by george at 9:53 PM 3 comments