B: “Who goes around kissing people one day after they’ve met them?”
Me: “That’s because you don’t like boys.”
B: “That’s because I don’t like people!”
(Beatrix, age 12, has thoughts about your Christmas movie screenplay)
It’s French 75 o’clock!
A reminder in this season for those that need to hear it…
We need you to be OK with not being OK and OK with being OK when you are OK.
Pretty proud of the fact that I managed to avoid Amazon for my Christmas shopping this year. Not the least of which is for reasons such as these.
In our house, we refer to this as “The Bible”.
A Few Rules For Predicting The Future – Octavia E. Butler | Common Good Collective
“I mean there’s no single answer that will solve all of our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers–at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”
It is impossible for me to hear the words “winter solstice” without thinking of this.
Making Lefse (Day 1)
Lefse making begins in lead up to the cooking Christmas Eve morning. Today I’m boiling and ricing the potatoes so that they can then be refrigerated for a few days to let the moisture evaporate.
I use a KitchenAid equipped with the meat grinding attachment to do the ricing.
Here they are after they’re riced.
French 75s. Neat.
“Wow. You seem like you really enjoy doing this stuff.”
— At least three people to me this week when I started talking about the home restoration work I do.