Audrey is picking the cherry tomatoes Katy is growing in our back yard. As she piles them on the table, she gives them a robot voice: “We like to be cooked. We like to be cooked.”
It was Katy‘s birthday Sunday.
We went to Tanglewood.
The Ever Lovely GL made Pimm’s Cups.
This was my view of the world for most of the day. Oh Pimm’s. How I love you.
Pete and GL got cozy.
Eleanor brought her knitting. I foolishly left mine in the car.
Andre has still not finished his paper. Naughty Andre.
These glasses make your head hurt if you turn too fast. Audrey likes them though.
She wore her hair in pigtails all day in honor of the occasion of Katy’s birthday.
Today we made a robot.
Katy has tagged me to do this meme, The Omnivore’s 100. For more information and wikipedia links, see the original site.
But here is the gist of it, and my response:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred:
1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros oh how I love them.
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile I had alligator in New Orleans, so I am counting this
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns a must have at dim sum
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes in season as we speak!
22. Fresh wild berries in pie, pancakes, by the handful
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut piping hot and fresh…drool….
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear in jelly, sauce, and margarita form
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV Dear Dirty Truth, I love you. xo, T.
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores August 30th is Toasted Marshmallow Day
62. Sweetbreads the meatiest meat you’ll ever meet.
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie in high school I was a big fan of the chocolate pudding ones, too.
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum Tom Yummy!
82. Eggs Benedict Pete’s go-to breakfast
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake
To continue on in my Grumpy Old Lady ranting, I would like to point out that these:
have been on the picnic table for 36 hours now (thanks Audrey, and your compulsive tendency to line things up), and yet no chipmunks or other vermin have eaten them. Odd, since the tomato plants have looked like this all summer:
because the stupid chipmunks come and eat a bite out of every single tomato and then leave them on my steps. Stupid chipmunks and their stupidness.
Also, my face is breaking out like a teenaged fry cook’s. I can’t be Old Lady Grumpy AND acne-prone. It’s just not right.
I would just like to remind Nature that it is August! And it shall remain August! So please Act. Like. August. I have a sweatshirt on right now. Not okay. But even less okay is this:
No! Changing! Colors! Not until September, please. W Tee Eff.
some of you may have noticed that This Blog was down for a bit over the weekend. Handsome, Talented, and Highly Intelligent Husband was in here with some Computer Raid spraying all the bugs.
So, quickly, while Tiny Girl is playing Noggin games, here is a roundup of the past few days:
What the girl said:
“Oh man! I hate the Balympics!”
walking down the stairs with a friend: “I will send you an email and you can come over my house.”
What the adults did:
watched Raising Arizona at a friend‘s house, which is cool enough. BUT! We watched it outside, on a big ProjecterTron, with popcorn and Izze sodas and all manner of Lovely People to crack up when the guy says, “Not unless round is funny.”
We don’t get many tornadoes around here, being all hilly, woodsy, and not having enough concentrations of trailer parks to anger the wind. Here is the collective reaction upon seeing this:
Me, looking at the sky: Erm…
Pete: Huh. (grabs camera)
(A few other partygoers gather around, staring at the slowly forming funnel cloud.)
Group: Um…hm.
Thankfully it started to unravel, and we didn’t all twirl around in the air looking mildly concerned and bewildered.
Home with a feverish kid today. So much for productivity.
Though, to be fair, two bottles of wine on a Monday night is also typically a productivity-killer. But as Katy says, Mondays Are The New Thursdays!
In other news:
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