Been a Long Time

It’s harvest season, which means that today after work at the cafe, I trotted to to the market up the street and bought 20lbs of food in root vegetable and apple form.
I’ve been in the kitchen since about 11:30, paring, peeling, chopping, coring, sorting, washing. Everything that’s getting processed today is on the stove, [...]

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The Door Comes Home

I recruited a good friend with a trucky-type thing to help me get my door home. This after borrowing another friend to help me get it from the ReStore to the shop. We got the door in and stashed it in Adam’s parking spot. I immediately became concerned that someone might have seen my beautiful [...]

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Urg

Lack of caffeine probably contributing to lack of progress with writing. Today was not a good day to decide to work on a new project.
On the plus side: Made spice cookies and have movies to watch tonight. Yay!

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The Gym at Work

I work in a coffee shop. My boss, his step dad (our office manager) and one of my colleagues are all boxers, and I take my karate fairly seriously. This means that we have, among the bean sacks and the wholesale supplies, a little gym downstairs in the roastery.
I sometimes go to work not [...]

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Winston and the Pigs

It rained last night, the first of the really big winter rains. Adam and I jokingly refer to this time of year as monsoon season because once the rains come to the island, they typically settle in. It’s not uncommon to have a single storm last a few days and result flooded streets and saline [...]

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Crabby updatery

Thanksgiving dinner: The quail was ridiculous. It looked like tiny headless naked people and was more than a little disturbing in when Adam made his dance between the mash and the cranberries. The pie, however, was wonderful.
Writing: I am back to writing fanfic. Sent Handbook off one more time and have had nothing back on [...]

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Apple Pie

Apples are delicious and plentiful this time of year and everyone in the neighborhood has a tree that’s groaning under its load. We were lucky enough to wind up with two huge bags of beautiful, rosy, organic apples in our fridge. We can’t eat them all (despite our best efforts) so we’re having pie after [...]

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A Brace of Quail

So I’m cooking quail today. This was not my top choice, but there was no ham and no turkey at Choux Choux (this is what I get for not ordering ahead). All Luc had was a giant frozen goose, rabbit, or quail. So it’s quail tonight. Uh, anyone know what tastes good with quail?
I worked [...]

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Blackout

The power was out here for an hour and a bit and reports from BC Hydro suggest no one is sure if the lights will stay on or not. Lucky for me I’d been doing my work on the lap top and had battery back up.
Once I realized it wasn’t the apocalypse and I wasn’t [...]

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Writing! Ham! Babies!

I am writing today. It’s too cold to sit at home and write, so I’ll be going down to the shop for a cuppa and some free heat and electicty (so say nothing of my daily dose of sass and gossip).
Later on, I’ll have to venture into the cold to go to Choux Choux and [...]

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