by CJ | Aug 21, 2011 | Journal
Bought 20 lbs of top rated flour for 14.90. That will bake 20 loaves of very good artisan bread, which is at least 2.50 a loaf at the store. Or more. So if I don’t screw up a loaf 🙁 —it will replace 50.00-60.00 worth of storebought bread. Which is pretty...
by CJ | Aug 20, 2011 | Journal
With chicken parmesan Caesar salad. I managed to burn the last piece of bread this morning (Jane and I split a piece for breakfast) so it was quesadillas for breakfast (leftovers.) Oh—crap! It should be done, and I forgot to add the yeast. That’s going to...
by CJ | Aug 19, 2011 | Journal
It’s wheat harvest in the Palouse—you have to see this country to understand it: towering, rolling, completely unfenced hills of loess that grows wheat and lentils like nobody’s business. In the old days they used a 40-horse hitch to get a plow or...
by CJ | Aug 18, 2011 | Journal
A little walk after breakfast, a koi pond sparkling clear, the house in fair order, Seishi riding herd on Eushu so Ysabel can sleep her days through, and most of the garden walks ‘pathed’ in basalt chips so the weeds won’t grow. Mornings are...
by CJ | Aug 17, 2011 | Journal
Which is a relief. The swelling evidently diminished enough in my fall-abused back that it popped back with a sound like a manhole cover going back on—we went ahead and took a lengthy walk, and it seized up again, so I am sitting here with an ice pack, and it is...
by CJ | Aug 14, 2011 | Journal
We had just one 2 hour panel: me, Jane, Patricia Briggs, Mark Ferrari, John Dalmas and Deby Fredericks—advice on writing. I’m seriously beyond burned out on writing panels, but it was pretty painless. It wasn’t the funnest way to end a con, for me,...
by CJ | Aug 14, 2011 | Journal
The leg’s acting up a bit more. And there was a lot of walking. I actually used the cane most of the time. Did a panel on terraforming with Jim Glass. We did a lot of discussion on terraforming Mars, Venus, Europa…discussed, say, moving Europa into Mars...
by CJ | Aug 13, 2011 | Journal
…I spent most of sitting in a green and white chair near the lobby and the latte machine. We were there from noon until about nine—and I did great for most of it. I had two programs, one a one-on-one writing critique: I couldn’t find the story...
by CJ | Aug 12, 2011 | Journal
Babying it all day, pillows, Aleve, the s-i belt, the knee-band, ice, and heat—and I am mostly out of pain this morning. It doesn’t say this is going to hold up through a convention day, but it’s way better than yesterday. I think we’ve got it...
by CJ | Aug 11, 2011 | Journal
Remember I took a downhill-facing tumble a few days ago. Well, between landing on the hand belonging to the bandaged shoulder, thus screwing that, I twisted mid-fall to avoid a faceplant among the foot-diameter sharp rocks I was aimed at, and now my right leg is, to...
by CJ | Aug 9, 2011 | Journal
We got a second cat tree—because we have a half-Bengal, and they climb. If you’re smart, you provide them something to climb. If you don’t—they FIND something to climb… …and you hear mysterious and horrid crashes from the kitchen....
by CJ | Aug 9, 2011 | Journal
We got a second cat tree—because we have a half-Bengal, and they climb. If you’re smart, you provide them something to climb. If you don’t—they FIND something to climb… …and you hear mysterious and horrid crashes from the kitchen....
