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| I got quite a shock yesterday. I asked Bren what the date was. "Is it the 27th or the 28th?" She goggled for a moment before answering, "This is the first!" "Of DECEMBER??" I returned. She showed me the calendar, and yeppers! She's right! Today's December first already. |
| The NanoWriMo thing has inspired me --- but not to write a novel. I'm thinking of starting a new writing event for poets. I'd call it NaNerRhyMer. The idea is to write rhyming poetry about bananas ('nanners') or while eating bananas by the sea throughout the banana growing season. I favour the latter option, "writing while eating bananas by the sea." What say ye, good writers (and even the very few not-so-good writers) of the Writing.com community? Good idea? Or do you get mal de mer and monkey pox just thinking about it? I think it will revolutionize poetry or at least revolt poets and banana haters. |
| I changed my costumicon. I was looking through the list for one to use as the anchor for a funny (or punny) newsfeed, and spotted the cow. Gary Larson once wrote that cows are inherently funny. If we anthropomorphize them, that seems true --- until we realize it's that anthropomorphism that makes them appear funny. In reality, we are the humourous ones and cows just seem to make good mirrows of humanity. I'm amused that chickens serve as even better mirrows on humanity. I like cows. Unless I'm reading cartoons, they don't seem all that funny to me. Ages ago, I wrote a poem, Similitude of a Cow and a Philosopher, in which I compared the two. The cow came out smelling like... uhm, the cow came out with a list of positive qualities at least as long as the list for humans. Let's be honest. We humans are an unco lot funnier than any real world cow. Cows make sense. I feel a weblog topic coming. |
| Could the empty brackets and discoloured paint on our wall be considered the ghost of my former shelf? |
I mentioned in an earlier Newsfeed that I accidentally left my internet access device at a friend's on Saturday. She gets one day off each week. Today (Sunday) was it. This morn, she made a fifty mile round trip to bring our internet device without even accepting money for petrol. We have no other friend and no family we can count on that way. She simply found our device where I had forgotten it and brought it to us. She's awesome beyond superlatives! |
| I accidentally left my main internet device at a friend's yesterday. So, I'm using my first "backup plan" to be able to maintain my streaks. The only real issue I'm having is that we're having to stand outside to work. Would be fine in July or August, but this November night is fairly chilly. Hopefully, I'll get my usual device back later today. |
| I changed my costumicon, briefly, just so I can make an odd reference. How do you like them apples? |
Humble Pie Poet PNG- 📓  - Fujis are good, but my favourites are Honeycrisps. So, "How do I like them apples?" I like 'em fine, but I like Honeycrisps better." Plus, Granny Smiths are generally used in pies. |
| Bren got creative tonight! She used Swiss Miss instant hot cocoa, corn starch, milk, and a dash of vanilla extract to make chocolate pudding --- warm chocolate pudding! (We usually buy instant pudding mixes.) Now, we're in trouble. We have half a canister of Swiss Miss remaining!! |
| "Don't try to outweird me. I get stranger things than you in my breakfast cereal." --- Zaphod Beeblebrox --- |
My rise to literary fame has been meteoric! That is to say, it fell to Earth very hard and shook up a lot of people. My writing itself has been mediocric. I keep trying though. I'm only one of 1000 monkeys trying to pound out something readable. It's going well so far. My stuff makes nearly as much sense as the pages the other 999 monkeys keep handing in! |
Monkeyshines 🍌
🙈🙉🙊  - I've always loved monkeys (and Monkees). The first gift I ever received when I was but a mere infink was a stuftie monkey as big as I was, holding a plastic banana. My uncle gave it to me. Recently, I started learning to communicate with chimpanzees (as you know, apes rather than monkeys). I know how to tell a young chimp to climb onto my back to be carried and how to invite a chimp of my own age to mate.  I've no plans to ever use the latter communication. |
Dave Ryan  - True! Also, I think the moment of readout is nigh. What's that hum overhead? Vogons? Drones? Vogon Drones? "Select a Response, Please: [       ] (Or I'll start reciting some of my poetry!) |
| Ok. I'll kick in my recipe to the current discussion. Bren always wants creamer in her coffee, but powdered creamers and even most liquid ones are mostly sugar and chemicals that are unpronounceable by non-chemists. So, I mixed up some homemade creamer: 1/4 Cup Sweetened condensed milk 8 oz. Heavy Whipping Cream 8 oz. Whole milk 2 Tsp Vanilla extract I put all those ingredients into a 20 oz. bottle and shook it vigorously. Then topped it up with more milk and shook it some more. I've made two bottles of it so far and she says she loves it. We keep it in the refrigerator (naturally) and she uses some in every cuppa coffee --- so it goes pretty quickly. |
tj gives thanks for all things  - That's what we started using a couple years ago, but Bren likes French vanilla. So, I whipped something up for her. I get little ideas like that from time to time. I've cut down my own sugar intake and I rarely use any kind of cream/er anymore. The honey sounds good and I might try some soon. |
| Humble Pie Poet PNG- 📓 - the honey has a few more calories but adds a wonderful taste. In my opinion, honey is a healthier option than sugar. My wife enjoys vanilla coffee from time to time, so I ordered some whole vanilla beans, cut one, and then added it to a small container of honey and let it sit and age. It takes a week or more, but it does add a nice vanilla flavor. Recently, with so much going on, we cheat and just add a bit of vanilla extract to the honey, which is both cheaper and easier. |
| tj gives thanks for all things - I have some honey I bought for mead, but things are too unsettled right now for me to start it. I might see what I can come up with now, and just buy more honey later. I've often wanted to work with whole vanilla beans, but just haven't had the opportunity. I'd also like to try my hand at making chocolate candy from square one --- starting with the beans. I'm a dreamer.  |
| "Angels rush in where fools tread to(ward) fear." --- Humble Pie Poet PNG- 📓  --- "Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway." --- John Wayne, American actor --- |
| Bren & I have much to look forward to! We have two or three recipe books of Indian cuisine. We bought some curry powder on Saturday and are excited about trying a new dish very soon!! Meanwhile, I'm trying to balance my growing love of the Indian philosophy and the belief that all life is sacred --- with my American need to protect our foodstuffs from mice. |
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