Post-Christmas dinner with Chuck. Holiday leftovers never put to better use.
The Amtrak Vermonter heading south. Yesterday, the engineer tooted Jingle Bells, which was awesome.
Walking through town on a snowy morning, I came upon a dead squirrel, balanced on a drift, first flattened then frozen solid. He took the road more traveled, and that made all the difference.
This post is dedicated to the entire Tumblr world, whose collective angst has established the hashtag “dead squirrel” as readily available in the auto-completion list.
Bliss à la belge
Lunch at the Whetstone, featuring some sort of exotic Trappist Christmas ale and a plate of mussels in a rich broth. Yummy!
GingerBrooks House… not the first time this building has looked like a Gingerbread House.
Last night I was introduced to the best party game ever…
Cards Against Humanity
Oh, the weather outside is frightful
A foot of snow overnight leads to giant bucket loaders at 3:00 AM. But, we have a pallet of pellets tucked up in the shed, and Christmas lion keeps stern watch for intruders.
$30,000 lasagna
Not sure how long it’s been since we actually made lasagna from scratch, but it’s been a while.
So, tonight, we did. The new Advantium oven might mostly just be a gadget, but tonight it made PERFECT lasagna and so made up for its high price tag.
We don’t actually cook all that much these days, so we have to amortize the cost of the oven — and the rest of the kitchen remodel — over a smaller number of meals. Still, crispy cheese, bubbly sauce… priceless.
Brattleboro Adventure – the Auckland Edition 