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Long weekend in Minneapolis
seen on my walk on Friday On Thursday, a terribly windy day, I sat on the upper deck of the double decker bus to the Twin Cities, to meet Mark who was already at the techy librarians conference. The...
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A week of harvest food pickups
At my computer at 7:28 AM on a Saturday, because we were awakened by Mark’s cat, who was trying to bury something in the bed … I will spare you the scatological details, but they involved a long-haired...
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Cookie season & Thanksgiving 2015
OK, here’s the plan – I’m in Chicago, came down on the bus on Tuesday for the tree lighting. I started cookie season with the jam cookies on Sunday – 225 and they are all safe in the freezer – and on...
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Thanksgiving 2015 and cookie season
We got back to Madison on a rainy Thanksgiving Day, and I started prepping for dinner on Black Friday. I did the pies – pumpkin chiffon, apple with cider caramel sauce and crumble top, and the most...
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I hate the coconut cookies this year
They’re big dumb galoots. But the Pfeffernusse are small and cute, as they should be, and the Packers won on a Hail Mary and all Wisconsin went to bed happy. And earlier in the day, I made another kind...
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Endurance Baking
A few years ago I had an art exhibition at my supper club house. One of the artists wanted to do something related to women’s work, and talked about endurance baking for a couple of days, which struck...
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Global-warmed winter in WI
An interlude in cookie season. Yesterday I packed all the boxes for shipping. I think Hammie wanted to help. Hammie helping Boxes in vestibule, the not very cool vestibule since it’s 58 degrees...
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Cookie party aftermath/meltdown
Platter taken to work on Thursday I’m “working” at home on a Monday – I’m going to call it a sick day, laptop in bed with me grading – also sleeping. I woke up with a ridiculously sore throat at...
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The year I got a cold for Christmas
It was just me, John, and Mark for Christmas. I got up and made a kind of cafe miel – the day before’s coffee heated in the microwave with a big slug of milk, then honey stirred in and a little cream...
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It’s 2016!
This is the 799th post to this blog, and it’s five years old. So, I thought it’s a good time for a new blog – up to HTML5 and responsive standards. Take a look as things develop – right here....
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