Daily Archives: August 25, 2012

Cooking, Garden

In August, Thinking of January

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The harvest and preservation season continues apace.  This morning I made a leek/tomato soup using 18 of our own leeks, two of our tomatoes and six of the ones we purchased yesterday at Green Barn, also locally grown.  This afternoon I’ll make another four chicken-leek pot pies for freezing and tomorrow a batch of chicken noodle soup and at least one, if not two, sugar cream pies.

Sugar cream pies are a Hoosier tradition and one of my favorites.  On a webpage devoted to the history of the sugar cream pie in Indiana it referred to the recipe as a desperation one, a recipe used when all the other stores had been used up.  Could be.  The recipes, though they vary a bit, all call for butter, cream and sugar.  Some of them that’s the whole recipe.  Finger stir–so as not to whip the cream–pop in the oven.

Desperation never tasted so good.

So we’re in August here in Andover, thinking of December and January.  The house smells great.  Kate’s making corn relish,

Friends, Woolly Mammoths

Patently a Martian

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Cybermage Bill Schmidt has two new gold stars on his life resume.

1.  His signature is now on Mars.  He has a friend who works at JPL who, about three years ago, showed him around the place, pointing out during the tour the rover now named Curiosity.  Behind it was a book.  “Sign the book,” his friend said.  Bill did.  “What’s it for?” “We’ll take a picture of all the names, put them on a chip and send them to Mars with the rover.”  Mission accomplished.  Bill’s a Martian. Sort of.

2.  Over the last few years Bill has worked at his favorite activity, coding, to make an invention by a local psychotherapist even more useful.  The invention records on video both sides of a conversation and allows easy tracking back through the dialogue later.

The company applied for a patent and Bill’s name stands as one of the two applying.  The patent has 38 claims for uniqueness.

 

Cinema and Television, Sport

Vikings. Then, Vikings.

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Thank you Vikings for continuing to free up time on Sundays later this fall.  I think I might take that online course on mythology.  Don’t know why, but as a fair weather fan, I’m willing to come back if you show me some winning football.

Guess in the end I’m a transplant when it comes to football, even though I’ve been here over 40 years.  The Vikes are just not enough my team to keep me interested in the rebuilding years.

Friday workouts are intense.  My back, my legs, my shoulders and chest all feeling it this morning.

Today’s a cooking day, so I’m off to the grocery store.

Oh.  One more thing.  Kate and I did watch Vikings last night, the Vikings in How To Train Your Dragon.  Much more entertaining than the football bunch.