I need to get Aperture 3. The way things are currently, everything is named so confusingly that it’s hard to find a picture. I admit that it’s entirely my fault since I didn’t bother to read the manual when I started using it and so it snowballed from there. Does it have a portal to [...]
Well, the weathermen were finally right. I’m glad for them. They can keep their jobs now and with the constant bloodletting in the latest business news, I’m happy when anyone anywhere keeps their jobs, even if it’s weathermen, a subgroup of some of the shallowest people on Earth. I was on call today but I [...]
It’s been since last August that I have added new headers to the blog. That is, since I adopted the new template. The new headers (there are four) are from Buenos Aires, which joins Paris, Barcelona, Naples, Positano, and Philadelphia as the cities which have been memorialized in the header since the blog’s inception. The [...]
We not only have streets like this, but we also have the newest Iron Chef and five of his restaurants. And it’s a all a lot cheaper than the same in Manhattan.
I thought I’d take more pictures. I ended up not even using the third CF card I brought along. Oh, well.
The September 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Steph of A Whisk and a Spoon. She chose the French treat, Vols-au-Vent based on the Puff Pastry recipe by Michel Richard from the cookbook Baking With Julia by Dorie Greenspan. Well, this is it. My first challenge with the Daring Bakers. The challenge was vols-au-vent, [...]
I spent all day at home baking. I got a phone all from my realtor at about noon telling me he hadn’t gotten the seller’s disclosure yet so it may be best to wait to make an offer until it arrived, which, due to the holiday, would not likely be until next week. They [...]
Someday, I’ll climb it.
Among horse-drawn buggies and fields full of cows and dried up corn husks, I managed to find a tree with radient leaves. They’re very few and far between this year. I also managed to trip, tear my pants, scuff my Italian shoes, bruise a knee, but I saved the camera.