Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A Tower-o-Turtles.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A leather turtle (with a turtle bell you've already seen).

Thanksgiving is off to a great start

Our home-cooked Thanksgiving meal this year was breakfast.

(food styling by Mr. Bears)

The pancakes were made with:

• Wheat and oats that we milled this morning with our KitchenAid grain mill
• Vanilla made the BobBIE-Baby Way

On top of the pancakes we put:

• Peanut butter ground in our BlendTec Blender
• Pomegranate syrup made from juice from our bush

I'm thankful that:

• We had a nice, wholesome, home-cooked meal and didn't get overfed
• There aren't a lot of dishes to take care of
• We have all our gadgets that make fairly healthful meals like this fun to make
• I have friends and family who humor me by reading these silly messages
• I have Jerry to take care of all the hard parts of Thanksgiving meals (and the rest of my life)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Autumn is Icumen in

Here we go again.

This year's pomegranate harvest was much better than last year's. Last year I didn't grow quite enough pomegranates to make one batch of jelly. This year I got a lot of pomegranates. I made three batches of jelly and one of syrup. Pancakes like pomegranates, too.

That took a gallon of juice. That took getting a lot of little arils out of the tough rinds.

I made a movie of the process.

Thrills ahead!

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

A mug (put into service as a pencil box) and matching box.

Gadgetmania

Jerry and I have joined the 21^st Century.  We got new cellphones!

We got Droids. Now we are never without phones. Or email. Or the web.

I was going to try to post this from my car at lunch today but I'm not good at typing on the tiny keyboards yet.

It's got GPS and can navigate using Google Maps. I had it guide me home from work yesterday. When you reach your destination it switches from the map to Google's street view. I found out that they've got a close-up of our house now.


View Larger Map

Their notion of our address is kind of off.

The picture was taken after our flood and shortly after the bike race (if you move to the left you'll see mud on the road from the truck that got stuck in the muck).

But all this is beside the point.

We have a very comprehensive phone plan now. We have unlimited data use. And unlimited text and picture messages. The use of the phone isn't unlimited but we've got a lot more time than we had before and we never went over our plan's time. We need to talk more.

So text away! Email is pretty much instant, too.

It's powered by Google's Android operating system. To get full use of it we needed to get Google's gmail email accounts. I'll be sending our my new email address soon. The old addresses still work but if you use the gmail address I'll be notified of new mail almost instantly. The others might have a 15 minute lag.

Keep in touch. We're never out of reach now.

Turtle Tchotchke Tuesday

Here I am in a T-shirt.