Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

I am considering buying a Prius. This does not make me a tree hugger. It makes me someone who’s trying to offset the $50 fillup on the Suburban every week. The poor Jeep is over 10 years old and needs some serious work; probably more than the $2000 or so we’d be [...]

Last night hub and I were discussing the fact that Caroline hadn’t woken in the night for at least a week. We had put a little crib mattress on the floor in our room for her to sleep on, she was in so frequently. Then all of a sudden, she wasn’t there anymore. [...]

There’s an idiot insomniac mockingbird chirping loudly across the street. It makes a nice counterpart for the idiot insomniac human typing quietly on my computer.

If someone out there would like to take over handling the Austinbloggers webring, please let me know. I’m over-involved in too many things right now and am trying to simplify. It’s not a big deal; usually about 2-3 ring applications come in per week; you check to see if they have the right [...]

I’ve been getting junk mail lately that has what appears to be rub marks on the outside of the envelope like there’s a credit card inside. There’s no credit card in there, though. It’s printed on the envelope to make you think there is. I grudgingly admit that it’s very clever… makes [...]

A squawk of protest as I closed the bedroom door.
“You didn’t say anything!”
It was true. I had forgotten the nighttime litany.
Sweet dreams.
Sweet dreams.
Sleep tight.
Sleep tight.
Don’t let the bed buggies bite.
Okay.
I love you, love you, love you.
I love you, love you, love you.
Nightie nightie nightie!
Nightie nightie nightie!
You’ve got school in the morning.
(giggle)
Every night.

While I have oft touted the merits of my hosting company after my horrible experience with Featureprice, lately I’ve been frustrated with the need for more disk space, as well as a Perl module which isn’t installed on the server and is causing MT-Blacklist to fail. I went in to look at all my [...]

The live oak trees outside are filled with little green worms who shower down like rain. Hub went outside to check the mail and came in with a worm on his shirt. The girls were fascinated with it, so I took it off the shirt and put it on Jo’s hand. They [...]

I updated my quilt gallery with a couple more that I’m working on.

Recent pics of the girls are in the gallery.
Dinner tonight was Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, courtesy of Alton Brown’s recipe.

1 whole chicken (broiler/fryer) cut into 8 pieces
1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons olive oil
10 sprigs fresh thyme
40 peeled cloves garlic
Salt and pepper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Season chicken with salt and pepper. [...]