Oh boy it's been a quick week! Haven't been up to much aside from playing in the garden, cooking, walking Hannah, trying to keep cool, working, and writing the thesis! Mostly home stuff and it feels good to just chill
Tried to make some pinto bean burgers - ended up melding a few recipes I found online and threw in some extra stuff I had lying around..
This looked like a good place to start:
and this one...
I took a few pics of my own bean burger, link at the end of the post......
A few things I want to tell the blogosphere (and Dan)..
1) Hannah does not appreciate brown sugar - I dropped a bit on the floor while doctoring up my coffee this morning and asked Hannah to play clean up crew...she sniffed it, looked up at me and walked away...I asked her to come back and taste it at least...she gave it a little lick, left the rest and again walked away annoyed at the order to get up from her nap...odd..
2) I failed at witnessing Venus in Transit - went to Galilee Hall on campus which is the physics building and they were holding a "viewing" on the roof, prime time started at 5:09pm for us...Vern and I waited a few minutes, but we were surrounded by clouds hindering our momentous event (along with a crowd of people and the Alabama humidity)...sad...so I biked home to be with the mutt. During my ride home the sun came out (dang it!!!) and I was faced with a dilemma...turn around for a once in a lifetime view, or keep going...well, it was too hot for me to do anything but head home, so I went home and quickly googled how to safely see Venus in transit - enter a shoebox viewer!! It was actually a Hamburger Helper viewer (it's pulling double duty - feeding me a tasty meal AND helping me with Venus)...unfortunately, I couldn't get the thing to work - I saw the sun via the pin hole, but couldn't make out Venus for the life of me, I probably did it wrong. I also looked a little ridiculous out on the curb trying to angle a Hamburger Helper box covered in foil, but oh well..
There was a viewing at the Perlan in Reykjavik, but unsure if Dan made it out there to try to see her scoot by the sun...
3)It is hot here folks...it's the time of year where we can't get cold water from the pipes because the pipes are buried so shallow in the ground (no frost heaves here to worry about!!) that the sun heats the ground/pipes and keeps our cold water a nice luke warm temperature...which means I've been making lots of ice to get my drinking water chilled...thank goodness for ice...I don't understand how people in the South survived without ice back in the day...I always think about a story from Kathryn Tucker Windham who passed away this time last year...she talks about growing up in the South and keeping cool in the summer by asking the ice seller in town to keep their whole watermelon in his freezer for a bit to ensure an ice cold treat of a watermelon slice in the heat of the day. Folks would go down to the ice store (or whatever it was called) and buy a block of ice to keep in their home ice boxes. Usually it was the kids who ran down to fetch the ice from the store, and they would carry it back tied with twine and they would delight in the drips of the melting ice hitting their legs as they hurried home. I tried looking for the audio for that particular story, but came up with a great big goose egg...alas...maybe I'll find it later...I miss KTW's long-winded random stories...nostalgia...
pics!
more soon..
xo
No comments:
Post a Comment