Mornin Everyone!
I do love peanuts, though, and bananas when they're mashed up and put into bread in an unrecognizable form. Flavor's OK.
Well, enjoy!! There's lox and bagels too, if you're with me on the bananas.
posted by jm at 2:50 AM
Sunday, September 24, 2006
I do love peanuts, though, and bananas when they're mashed up and put into bread in an unrecognizable form. Flavor's OK.
Well, enjoy!! There's lox and bagels too, if you're with me on the bananas.
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Good morning, jm! I'm having some coffee with a bit of cream and a touch of muscovado sugar, even though I really ought not to drink any coffee when I'm on the verge of working on a pysanka. Coffee jitters and eggs just don't mix. But it's going to be a beautiful day outside for a change, so I'll let the project be and work on hanging the laundry out to dry.
You can go here to my friend Luba's page. She is waaaaaaaaaaaay better than I am at this. Maybe after another 6 years, I'll get a bit better at it.
OMG Joe, those are STUNNING!! No wonder you need steady hands.
As for the peanut butter. . . I ducked into Trader Joe's late yesterday evening to pick up a few supplies. The standard breakfast of my childhood was cereal and milk (seven kids, lived on a farm), but as I got older, I realized I was highly allergic to cow's milk and have a sensitivity to wheat. I also don't tolerate soy. So for years, cereal and milk were out. Then I discovered almond milk. TJ's has it, along with several choices of wheat-free cereal. Yesterday, I decided to try something new:
Barbara's Peanut Butter Puffins.
Just finished the bowl as I was signing into your blog, JM.
I would never have thought of it, but I bet these would be great with sliced bananas! Will get some today.
Lox-n-bagels...mmmhmmmhph...sorry typing with mouth full:)
PB Puffins *giggle*...dunno why that struck me funny, however they sound good with bananas...
Just wanted to check in and relate my adventure yesterday. Whew! What fun...
I started out early with my handy map book, deciding to take the way-back ways to LaConner (which is about 30 miles from my house). Warning, things are not as large as they appear on map...I kept missing my turns...of course it's hard to get lost in a space so small:). Happy mistakes tho, I found a farmstand and bought apple cider, veggies and a bunch of dahlias. Finally I came across LaConner...what a cute little town. Tseka later told me that it had been built during the gold rush-and it looks it, reminded me a lot of my former digs in 49er territory in CA. I got to the gallery around three and walked in to realize I had absolutely no idea who I was looking for, so I browsed for a mo, and finally decided to ask the slight lady with the long blonde hair at the end of the counter wearing a mostly obscured name tag. Turns out this was TSEKA! I gave her the dahlias and mentiond whispering wineglasses (I felt so secret agent...) at which she yelled and gave me a BIG hug. For a small girl, she has a bear hug *grin*.
I wasn't sure what I was expecting, my mental pictures are not always accurate, so I never trust them anymore, I had pictured long hair, but I was not expecting it to be pale cornsilk blonde, nor was I ready for her eyes to be so blue...she uses the same blue a lot in her art...she matches her creations in a very organic way, I think, although, later thinking about it, I realized many of her paintings are nearly as big as she is :). She wanted me to tell neith that she was wearing a (very classy, I might add) handloomed silk jacket in shades of lavender, purple and blues, which matched those blue eyes very well. For various reasons better left for her to elaborate on, if she desires, the gallery scene was very slow, so we toddled over to the coffeehouse across the street for a cuppa. We had a wonderful chat about our kids, the blogs, our family lives, myth and philosophy, etc, etc. Very fun, she says she is not a writer, but words seem to come quite easily and she is always interesting. She was telling me (if I understood this right) that part of her painting process is writing a haiku for the painting. I thought her paintings were great examples of zen tranquility. There is something very peaceful about them. The pictures on the site don't do justice, in that you can't see the 3-d aspects of layering and texture she uses...
I also got to breifly meet her mother and her cat (who was traveling with, looking quite content in the back of the van). By about 5, the gallery was about to close and she was going off to dinner with her mom and friends, so we said our good-byes and I took off. On the way home, i picked up crabs and oysters, as talking about seafood with Tseka made me crave it, and our houseguest had not been treated to any during his stay. So we topped off the afternoon/evening with steamed crabs and pan-fried oysters along with fresh corn from the farm stand...then I fell asleep in front of the movie, even tho I meant to blog :).
And that was my big adventure. I only wish, as it turned out, was that my son would have come along, he had decided at last minute to go along with my husband and his friend to the movies, and I encouraged this, because I didn't know what to expect, and when he gets bored, he can be quite obnoxious about it (in his own quiet way). As it turned out, the movie fell thru and he was bored here. Shoulda taken him with after all....Oh well, she said she'd be up again, I'll bring him by then *smile*
Hmmm...(frankenstein voice)Need...more...coffee....Have a beautiful sunday all! Take care, Juno
Must be the equinox! Everybody seems to be in high spirits.
No more politics. Poetry, art and astrology. If this is Chiron Return, I'll take it!!! The healing has been much needed and truthfully, if this is it, it was worth the depression and wait and all the just hanging on moments of the past year.
Fantastic news kj! I agree with you. The suffering is worth it.I can't even begin on the relief from this political tragedy.
LOL Pat!!
sorry typing with mouth full:)
No wonder you lose your brilliant essays!
Now on to the report of the meeting.
Juno, great descriptive prose. What about the voice?
I find that the immediate memories of encounters with people tell the real story. The reverberations. I'm so glad you described what tseka looks like juno. I was hoping for that.
kj. I've got some books to recommend. I'll post them later.
This is a perfect time to learn now that you have this burst of freedom from the lowlife of others. The energy will motivate you. I guaranteee you'll love astrology. After 38 years, I still can't get too much. The most consistently fascinating thing in my life. Only the blogosphere has equaled it!!
Welcome! You chose well finding walking, breathing astro encyclopedias.
muscovado sugar?
Interesting joe. You know,I like your designs better.
Back to the same dilemma. Technical vs creative. Sometimes too much attention to technique can take out the exhuberance. You're in a critical place, maybe, where your skill is enough to get your ideas out. As I said earlier, the others are beautiful, but yours are bolder and more exciting.
It looks like creating these is a great meditation. Working with that beautiful shape and all.
Hiya sweety!! I don't see anything about a Jambalaya or Gumbo! Now come on, you gotta do better than that to keep the attention of someone like me. Or am I to think that you are forgetting about me? :(
Or has it been so long that I came comment here that you brushed me off? Now see here, I was gonna send you another pic, but you left me out.
They say that the way to a man's heart is his stomach, but you have to give me some good ole down the bayou food to bite on. Ain't no latte drinking man here mind you, I like meat and potatoes or potatos depending what side of the fence you are on.
Ah what the hell, you are still my blooger babe!
{{{{{Donnie}}}}}!!!!!!!!!!!
The blooger babe's missed you, man!
I love that bayou flavor, but you better learn to cook if you want it! And then come round here for our weekend breakfasts and treat this crowd to some REAL food.
You politicos don't have time for love! But I'm waiting.
Good to see ya!
Here's the link I promised kj,
http://groups.msn.com/HOROSCOPESCHAT
Thanks jm, I was hoping to paint her well, as for voice, what struck me was how quiet yet firm it was. I have a voice like a grackle, and I found myself trying to consciously keep it as controlled as hers was at all times...maybe it comes to her from being around galleries, they're like libraries in many ways, they tend to encourage quiet contemplation. I unfortunately tend to be loud; I probably missed my calling as a longshoreman or fishwife...elegant is good word for her (although she confessed her predilection for comfy clothes at home...I conceded that I didn't usually look so *nice* either...:) ), and very beautiful. It was wonderful to meet her, great energy there, and her art work was such a genuine extension of that strong, aware prescence...
mmm, muscavado sugar, best thing to put in choc. chip cookies, you can really taste the difference...
Juno, your meeting with Tseka sounds like my kind of scene. Very descriptive, even if you think you sound like a grackle crossed with a fishwife, with longshoreman thrown in for good measure. :o)
jm, muscovado sugar is simply can sugar that has not been boiled to death and bleached like white sugar. It still has the nutrients from cane in it, is darker brown than brown sugar, and absorbs into the bloodstream much slower than white sugar. It has a richer, deeper flavor overall.
I unfortunately tend to be loud; I probably missed my calling as a longshoreman or fishwife...
LOL!!!!
Voices are so revealing. It's supposed to be the story of Mercury and the 3rd house, but I think it might be as much the ascendant. Leo exaggerates the self. Tseka is Aquarius rising, NN in Pisces on the ASC (ethereal persona), but it's interesting that her expressions in cyberspace aren't always soft spoken. I get inner strength clothed in a gentle demeanor from tseka. And a wild streak that probably speaks of her connection with animals. I think an artist usually expresses refinement in some way. It's all through the character.
You desribed her qualities really well.
elegant is good word for her (although she confessed her predilection for comfy clothes at home...
Elegance is something deeper than clothes, anyway. Her elegance definitely preceeds her here. Unmistakable.
Joe, how does it differ from turbinado?
That's hilarious juno!!
Leo rising with the ruling Sun and Moon in Sag trying to tone it down!!!!
Although I've shut it off now, I used to listen to talk radio a lot. I've always liked to listen to the human voice. Very often the image I have turns out to be entirely different from the reality when I see the person. I wonder if the voice expresses internal characteristics not obvious or if our imaginations just don't put it together with material reality. Don't want to. I almost never get it right.
In reversal, it would be interesting to know what everyone here thinks everyone else looks like!
Turbinado is cane sugar that still has a bit of brown molasses in it but for all purposes, is much like refined white sugar. It is often coarser in texture, in my experience. Muscovado is also much finer and darker than commercial brown sugar.
She wanted me to tell neith that she was wearing a (very classy, I might add) handloomed silk jacket in shades of lavender, purple and blues, which matched those blue eyes very well.
That sounds just right for her though I bet there's a story in how she came by it! Part of doing the artist at the Gallery thing, is looking the part - and it sounds like she's got it down!! Silk is such a fabulous fiber & even the yarn is expensive. I've contemplated weaving some silk fabric for the front of a vest . . . but my sewing skills are more utilitarian than anything else. Juno, thank you so much, sweetie,for sharing your experience so well. I miss tseka's presence here in cyberspace very much. What an afternoon you had. LaConnor reminds me of those artsy towns in Northern Cal, especially Sausalito, since LaConnor is on the water too. Gad, you're making me hungry for seafood!!! Haven't had a fresh dungeness crab in quite awhile. It's yummy!!!
Since Venus is still in Virgo, I'm still adding to the still life in my pantry . . . pretty jars all in a row. I'm going to have to see if I can get muscovado sugar at our local health food store, it sounds quite tasty!
Yes, Neith, there was a story to the jacket, she'd traded it for a painting...
"I've always liked to listen to the human voice. Very often the image I have turns out to be entirely different from the reality when I see the person"...
That's so true. The crab has a beautiful voice, a rich baritone, and as an actor, he can change the way he's percieved just by changing his voice. Computer communication is interesting because we have no physical cues to use and we try to more or less re-create ourselves as 'characters' with 'voices' that reflect who we are. It seems to work out pretty well... Neither Tseka nor I seemed particularly surprised by each other, it was just filling in details, longer hair, shorter hair,...accents, she has a delightful northwoods accent that of course doesn't translate onto the web...
Thank you Joe for the info on muscavado, I love the stuff and use it a lot, but had no idea that it actually had NUTRITION *gasp*...I imagine you having one of those northern accents as well...:)
...Of course I never speculate about any of youse...ever,ever,ever.:)
...Traded a painting for it, is what I meant...DUHHHHHHHHHHH
...Traded a painting for it, is what I meant...
Knowing what something like that jacket would go for, that sounds about right!!
Hey all, Pat's got a new Post.... please refrain from drinking anything you don't want spayed all over your keyboard when you read it . . . :-)
heh, juno, this reminds me of the time I developed a pen pal relationship with a gal from Maine. After some months of correspondence by the old-fashioned letter, we traded phone numbers and the first thing she said was, "You have NO accent!"
Well, no, not compared to her accent! "hee-yah an' thay-ah" and "Ah sent you a post-cahd" are the most memorable... :o)
Joe, She sounds like my New Hampshire Grandfather. Who sounded like a Stephen King character. Ayhuh...:)
The crab has a beautiful voice, a rich baritone, and as an actor, he can change the way he's percieved just by changing his voice.
This is fantastic! I'd put up with the rest of it!
HA HA HA HA!!!
post-cahd
This is one thing I love about the blogosphere...not hearing the voices.
I get so distracted by them. I hear every nuance of mood and so much of the time what people are describing doesn't match the tone of voice.
Like this party I attended and one lady was saying to another in a shrill voice, "we're having fun, aren't we?"
Like this party I attended and one lady was saying to another in a shrill voice, "we're having fun, aren't we?"
We have a couple of those in the family . . . makes one long for ear plugs! My voice is one of those that doesn't carry very far unless I really make an effort to project it . . . and my mom & S/O are pretty much deaf. So I have to make sure I'm making eye contact when I want them to hear what I'm saying.
and my mom & S/O are pretty much deaf. So I have to make sure I'm making eye contact when I want them to hear what I'm saying.
This is interesting and symbolic of your NN 7th in Gem. Having to makes an extra effort to communicate. The eye contact especially.
This is lacking in so many dialogues. It's a marvelous trait.
Ah, Neith, sounds like you and I would get along just fine, then. I'm pretty hard of hearing and have been since age 5.
Voices are so unique. We try to fit into the social order but the voice always gives us away totally. Everytime we hear the voice of our intimates, a million sensations are triggered.
I still hear the voices of my departed loved ones. Very very clearly.
kj
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