la tormenta

we love this place. these photos were collected from the last few weeks of visits, delicious.

 

Check out this local blog for an excellent and extensive post.

 

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Kreis Stick Coffee

Having B home for lunch is very nice. Today I decided to use these Japanese instant coffee packets that have been sitting in the bread basket since I don't know when, maybe during my SC months.

K mild, B special

 

From the website (by google translation):

Special Blend, "Three major elements of taste, aroma, flavor is harmonious, I am a mature taste."

B says, "Oooo... "

Kreis Gold Standard Cafe

From here, the history of Christ's Cafe Began.

 

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VfR

Mister Sha's rocket club launch yesterday. Can't help but think of Gravity's Rainbow.

"Temperatures, velocities, pressures, fin and body configurations, stabilities and turbulences..."

The Verein für Raumschiffahrt ("VfR", English: Society for Space Travel) was an amateur rocket club in Germany before WWII.

 

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fading fall

leaves have fully turned here, lovely fall feeling.

Yesterday's view from the living room

Egg noodles for soup

First snow this morning

 

Couple of inches of snow today, more coming tomorrow.

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plums & grapes

Update: oops, had a mishap with my phone. Looks like I deleted the pictures...

Finished processing the bushel of Concord grapes today, still a lot of plums though!

basket of plums

grape-plum-apple jam, dried plums, well-loved Joy of Cooking

Grape juice, squash and tomatoes

view from the kitchen window, the weather is lovely

 

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quality of light

last night's walk with the dogs

 

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home

Home

in the Halloween aisle

 

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golden dragon

Been here several times now, not too shabby...

Kung Pao Chicken and Ham Fried Rice

B suggested I eat in to "people watch".

"unusually" successful...

 

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sophie

Thinking about Sophie

 

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watermelon

Still plenty of roadside watermelon here.

 

Reminds me of the cowboy bebop episode "mushroom samba"

Ed: Food food food food foody food food food food, do you have any, yes you don't, no you do.

Which makes me hungry for shiitake stir fry...

 

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rain

So grey, so much rain. Gloomy.

 

pouring ass rain

 

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Wildlife

Hot and grey here, pouring ass rain. Can anyone tell me where that phrase came from? I said it yesterday at work and no one else had ever heard 'pouring ass rain'.

Here are a few pictures I've collected.

 

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splendour of mine own

Summer Splendour is completed!

This pattern was quite easy, the result satisfying. Blocking is magic. I'm giving this to a colleague at work, and beginning another right away in ecru for my mom. Definitely feel close to my mom and grandma doing thread crochet. I was never interested in doilies, except I disdained them when dusting the house as a kid. I remember them sitting together with their magazines, they had the language barrier and the patterns were in different styles (English text based vs. Japanese chart), but they were so good they just looked at their work in progress to figure it out. I realize now what that connection meant to them, having now this feeling of addiction to it, hands cramped up but must finish a row...

 

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