This is one of Grandma’s recipes. I’m putting together recipe cards as party favors for her 101st birthday party this weekend. We’re having it at her house–yes, my grandmother lives by herself and she can still thread a needle. She’s pretty remarkable. This is one of my favorites at Christmas. They’re like miniature pecan pies. […]
The festivities went off without a hitch last night. Twenty-three relatives in one house for dinner. The Menu Oriental Napa Cabbage Salad Cornbread Angel Biscuits Rice and Shrimp Curry Cranberry Congealed Salad Butternut Squash with Apples and Currants Pomegranate Garbanzo Bean Salad Spinach Artichoke Casserole Brandied Fruit Carrot Casserole Corn Pudding English Toffee The crazy
We went down to the Celsi’s last night to visit. We watched the Decline of the American Empire, which was good. Sadly, about half-way through it I discovered that I was jet-lagged and falling asleep. The real highlight was seeing their daughter’s room, which Eve has just redone. It’s beautiful and makes me want to
For Christmas, Rob gave me a book by my favorite Victorian author, which is quite the impressive since I think he’s found all of her titles at this point. If you don’t know how these yearbooks work, they contain a pithy saying for everyday of the year. Here is today’s: “One uncongenial guest can ruin
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Mom and Dad gave us a gift certificate to Rejuvenation Hardware for our anniversary. Friday, as part of our Christmas festivities Rob and I went to Rejuvenation to pick out a new light for our front hall. We won’t get the actual light until January seventh, but you can admire the computerized rendering of its
I didn’t get called in to work till 3:30 today. This gave me a little time to go Christmas shopping and I think I’m actually finished. This seems rather astounding to me. I also finally went into an antique shop that I’ve been carefully avoiding because it looked too good. I knew I would be
We went to Dana and Mark’s Read for a Christmas Brunch to exchange Secret Santa gifts. You might recall that we exchanged Secret Santa names at Thanksgiving. I drew Þor’s name and gave him a copy of The Marionette Sourcebook by Luman Coad. It’s a really great resource and he seemed very pleased. Sarah drew
I still don’t have pictures of the people, but this is one of the flower arrangements that I made for my Christmas party.
I think that I’ve mentioned that we’re shooting the Christmas episode. Besides doing some live hand shots, I also worked the Christmas tree for about an hour. No. It wasn’t dancing; it was being carried by two characters, one of which was a puppet, which meant that someone else had to do the actual lifting.