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Posted on 10/05/2004 3:33:41 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
New verse:
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Upon the hearth the fire is red, |
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Thank you ma'am! I'll have a cup!
I'm really re-thinking it...it's just one day a week and the kids really like it...the softball/tee-ball most of all. But I signed up Joshua for Spanish and although he loves it, it's still $20 a month. Besides that...it's a 20 minute drive away and softball/tee-ball is over with at 2:30pm and Spanish starts at 4pm! We have to do school SOMETIME you know!! We ended up doing it on the floor and other people don't mind their kids like we do...they would be running and screaming...very distracting. I'd be trying to go over Math with Matthew, agonizing for me anyways, as you know...and these kids would be running around hysterically. It's been a disaster.
I think next semester we'll just do the sports...I don't know. As part of the co-op mom's have to work somewhere with a teacher. Except I got stuck with 6 sessions of "Nursery"...babysitting the teacher's kids. I'm not a big fan.
Funny, though...one of the ladies came up to me and said "Are you in charge of the nursery?" Startled, I said "No!" And she said "Oh! I thought you were...you always walk around with such authority!"
LOL Me? I question every step I take!!! I'm sure I'm doing my whole life wrong most the time! LOL
Anyway, if I can't work in the classes my boys are in, we're not doing any of it next semester.
That recipe does sound easy. I have some flaxseed meal, too, so I can make them not too high in carbs. It also helps the portion size when you can do them yourself. I checked the carbs on a regular size Thomas's bagel once and it was almost 50 grams for ONE bagel! ARGH!
Heh, my mom just has my little sister take the boys. Actually, she has to do that because they couldn't make it home before my littlest brother's bus shows up, but it's very convenient for her.
When we were younger, before the boys could really get anything out of co-op, we'd leave them with my grandmother. Then the co-op switched from Monday (her off day) to Friday and we had to drag the boys along...
This batch of starter is supposed to be "ready" in 3 days...I think I'll just use it up and if I want to do any more, I'll just grow another batch of starter.
We're not supposed to be eatin' that much carbohydrate anyways! ;-)
I worry more about portion size than carbs, since they're the good sort - whole grains and all. But the usual store bought bagels are hugh. I made mine quite a bit smaller.
2 cups white flour
2 cups water
1 packet of dry baking yeast
Recipe calls for 2 cups starter...this would be about 4, right? So I could use the whole batch just about and make a double batch of biscuits.
I could see making biscuits once a week with whole wheat pastry flour, if that would work, or bread - for a night when my brothers were over. That'd be enough to keep the stuff goin'! I think it just needs to be used once a week or so.
That's a LOT of biscuits, no?
Well, before I can do anything, I gotta wait for it to quit raining!! If this works, it'll mean the first thing I've baked in months! (Other than the bread machine and those microwaved cupcakes!)
Glad you finally have an oven? That's a silly question...
Ovens are such wonderful things. I had so much fun cooking that nice dinner last night! More fun since I got my friend to come over and share it.
Well, it's just a dutch oven! It was my grandmother's...
I have to wait till it quits raining so I can start a fire!
Ohh! I didn't catch that you were planning on doing them over the fire.
Duh...I need to work on my reading comprehension skills...
Heheh! I just take for granted everyone has read "Lonesome Dove". Gus, one of the main characters, makes sourdough biscuits in the campfire and reads the Bible every morning. Down in what I always thought was the "Big Bend" area of Texas. Steve and I went on vacation there, once. I'll scan and post some pictures directly.
I haven't read "Lonesome Dove" either... I don't like Westerns unless we're talking John Wayne.
I want to read that...the local library copy is out of circulation - says damaged - but I could do intralibrary loan one of these days!
It's on my list, for sure.
I think this one is an exception. I've had a lot of people I trust recommend it. It's not in the same category as a lot of those western type books.
Yeah, read it and let me know. If it's not too "dialogue-y", I'm willing to give it a try.
IMO, SF/fantasy is like anime. When people say "I don't like it" I assume it's because they haven't found the right one yet.
As a genre, SF encompasses every other genre. There are literary SF works... romances, SF westerns.
You should read Doomsday Book if you're a fan of good writing. Makes me humbled by the sheer ability of Connie Willis every time I read it.
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