Wanted an extra loaf as a gift, so I made double the dough and divided it. Took maybe 15 minutes longer than just one loaf would have, so pretty quick and easy.
2023-08-26 12:10
Category: News
2023-08-25 11:31
My copy of the new translation of Meyer’s 1570 sword-fighting treatise has arrived!
2023-08-24 09:04
The ice fairy cometh.
(In my brother’s household, the person who actually takes the trouble to make ice, when everyone else just takes ice, is referred to as the ice fairy.)
2023-08-19 19:59
The sun shining through the patio fence cast almost zebra-like, or tiger-like stripes on Ashley. 🐕 #dogsofmastodon
2023-08-19 06:17
I dragged the dog to the prairie (right next to Winfield Village), so I could get this picture of the dawn sky. (She had her own opinion of where we should go for our dawn walk, but did indulge me when I insisted.)
2023-08-18 19:29
I cleaned and waxed my feder before heading to St. Croix. But I forgot where I stashed my cleaning supplies, and it took me until today to find that stuff again. But I have found it, and have now removed the effects of Sunday’s practice session from the edges.
2023-08-18 06:32
The sky went from “Ooh, look at that red ball!” to “Ooh, don’t look at that red ball!” in the time it took me to get my phone out to take a picture.
2023-08-17 06:13
Apparently I was a lazy girl my whole life, and didn’t even know it.
The Wall Street Journal provided a fairly succinct summary of a lazy girl job in July: “one that can be done from home, comes with a chill boss, ends at 5 p.m. sharp and earns between $60,000 and $80,000 a year — enough to afford the basic comforts of young-adult life, yet not enough to feel compelled to work overtime.”
Source: The New York Times
2023-08-15 09:35
One of the best things about cats was that they seemed to understand when you were sick. They’d sit on your lap all day and be completely undemanding.
This is so not true of dogs. #dogsofmastodon
2023-08-14 10:24
Speaking as someone who has advocated for a return to local solar time (now that everyone has a supercomputer with GPS in their pocket to handle the necessary conversions), I was intrigued to read this article about just how bad things were before we started using timezones.
It’s peripheral to the main article, but I was kind of intrigued by this bit:
When he arrived in Ann Arbor in 1852, Tappan gave a speech outlining his vision for a new type of university. Drawing on the German model of education, he sought to transform the University of Michigan into an institution where knowledge was not just taught, but created.