Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
How cool is this!!? The Library of Congress has an account on Flickr! (found via Boing Boing)
I love pineapple. Pineapple is so sweet and yet tangy at the same time, it’s almost a magical fruit (one that doesn’t make you toot!). The only way to go is fresh, and I finally cut up the one that’s been sitting in the kitchen today.
The only problem with pineapple is, that when you cut it up, you lose about half of the darned thing. It occurred to me as I was cutting up the pineapple, that if I focused on cutting off the outer part (it’s not really skin - what is it? Husk?) very carefully, I could make a second layer cut that contained a little bit of the husk-like part (the stuff in the bowl) and put that part in the juicer! Yay! I made some pineapple-granny smith-ginger juice that was lovely. The juice was a little heavy on the ginger, which kind of muddied the pineapple flavor, but it was still quite good. I might use some of the “good” pineapple for juice tomorrow morning.
Now I know what to do with those mutant carrots they sell at the grocery store…
And check out Heita3’s vegetable flutes. He even has an ocarina made out of a mushroom!
I finished Ptolemy’s Gate 
Up next… well, I don’t know yet. I’ll know by the time I go to work tomorrow.
With the exception of having to leave my Honey at the airport headed for Texas, today was a wonderful day.
I headed over to Stitch DC - Capitol Hill to return my defective Addi Lace Needles (they were part of the apparently funky first batch of ALN) after dropping Honey off, and arrived about 45 minutes before Stitch DC actually opens. I decided to see if I could find a magazine and a cup of coffee, so I proceeded walk over to Pennsylvania Avenue.
On Pennsylvania Avenue, I found Bread and Chocolate, which is a local chain, based in Alexandria VA. I missed Murky Coffee, right around the corner. I’ll have to try them next. And there definitely will be a next time.
I’ll be back to the Capitol Hill area again in the near future, not necessarily for the yarn, although I did purchase some new yarn that I didn’t need… well, they had AllHemp 6 (Hemp for Knitting) the pumpkin color that I’ve been wanting for a LONG time, and some lovely Kid Seta mohair yarn! Ooooooo… But the best part of the trip was the walk through the outdoor portion of Eastern Market. It was such a beautiful day - almost 60 degrees, gorgeous after some really frigid days here in the DC Area.
I didn’t buy any produce at the farmer’s market, but I found a great soap maker from Baltimore, Licopevel. I purchased a bar of cedar and sage soap that doesn’t contain any sodium laurel sulfate (or any of it’s cousins) or preservatives. I hope it lasts a while, because the soap is expensive at $4.50 a bar.
I went home for lunch, and did a couple more errands, including a trip to Borders to buy a couple of gifts. A few other books fell into my arms as well, including Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food
Finally, I headed home for some quality time with the fur-kids and some much needed down time. A busy, but great day.
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Juice for Today:
Juice #1
1 Granny Smith apple
1 Braeburn apple
handful of frozen cranberries
2 carrots
chunk of ginger (a little too much this time)
Juice #2
2 Granny Smith apples
3 carrots
2 Clementines
1 glug of OJ
small chunk of ginger
I hadn’t heard of Letterboxing until today, when I was searching for something completely else. It’s kind of cool - like old-school geocaching. It sounds like fun!
I want the last two hours of my life back!! I think Law and Order just lost me as a viewer… What a lame beginning to the season. Of course, it will never be as good as it was when Lenny was alive, but ‘cmon! This is ridiculous!
So, my blogging habits haven’t been up to snuff for any of the challenges lately, but I will definitely be trying to post more frequently this year. I think, however, that 50 books is a manageable task. I love to read, and I would almost rather be reading than doing anything else.
I started Ptolemy’s Gate (third book in the Bartimaeus trilogy) on Sunday, but I haven’t gotten very far, so I’m going to consider this Book 1. Once I’m done, I’ll give you the details, but the fun is already afoot!