time with greenie
Apr. 3rd, 2024 11:05 amErin came into town the weekend before last, which was lovely. I am still unaccustomed to people actually coming to see me; my mental framing, which has held sturdy since at least 2006, has been "people don't come to me, i go to them." But now that I've had two in the space of six weeks, plus Mya coming over I guess once a month or so for dinner, I should perhaps re-evaluate that.
As a result of Erin driving down, I now have a fridge filled with eggs: two dozen chicken eggs, nearly a dozen duck eggs, and unsure but probably not quite a dozen goose eggs. In my experience duck and goose eggs are great in baking (one goose egg is about three chicken eggs, depending) but have a weird texture when cooked on their own. Will see how long this lasts me.
I also had my first cookie fail (hubris ftl): creamed the butter and sugar, added in the (duck) egg and vanilla, and then let it sit for half an hour or so while we had dinner before finishing it off. Result: dry and crumbly cookie dough, dry and crumbly cookies. Ah well. I'm assuming this is a result of leaving it to sit rather than the duck egg. Will conduct further experiments (involving duck eggs rather than "leaving to sit") to determine.
Sunday the weather was quite nice, and we went and hung out in Pier Park with a bunch of mugs and a butane stove and a kettle and some tea, and some folks dropped by and chatted and drank tea and went home with mugs. Erin's been doing pottery fairly intensively for the last ... while, I guess, several months? Which means that she ends up with an awful lot of different pieces, mostly mugs, in different glazes. So some of them found homes over the weekend. It was lovely: beautiful pottery all shimmery and bright-coloured in the sun, and tea, and people I don't know terribly well but generally like.
On Tuesday we drove north, for a generally good and low-key not-quite-week. I managed to forget my toiletries, which meant that I got to once again experience several days of beard growth. This is definitely Not For Me. I like the look of a goatee, but that takes actual effort and morning thought to maintain, so it just all comes off. Quite relieved to be home to my razor on Saturday evening.
More importantly I also got to experience life without ADHD meds. It's hard to say what effect this actually had on me since there wasn't really much that needed doing in a specific timeframe while I was there. The main thing I noticed was a return of sugar craving. Thankfully a couple days back on the Concerta has squelched that down again.
Winter term is complete; spring term starts tomorrow, and on Friday night I fly out to Ohio to hang out in what looks to be heavy cloud cover for a total solar eclipse. I am of course pleased that folks in Niagara will get a clearer view but also irritated that it had to be -this year- that I'm missing it. C'est la guerre.
As a result of Erin driving down, I now have a fridge filled with eggs: two dozen chicken eggs, nearly a dozen duck eggs, and unsure but probably not quite a dozen goose eggs. In my experience duck and goose eggs are great in baking (one goose egg is about three chicken eggs, depending) but have a weird texture when cooked on their own. Will see how long this lasts me.
I also had my first cookie fail (hubris ftl): creamed the butter and sugar, added in the (duck) egg and vanilla, and then let it sit for half an hour or so while we had dinner before finishing it off. Result: dry and crumbly cookie dough, dry and crumbly cookies. Ah well. I'm assuming this is a result of leaving it to sit rather than the duck egg. Will conduct further experiments (involving duck eggs rather than "leaving to sit") to determine.
Sunday the weather was quite nice, and we went and hung out in Pier Park with a bunch of mugs and a butane stove and a kettle and some tea, and some folks dropped by and chatted and drank tea and went home with mugs. Erin's been doing pottery fairly intensively for the last ... while, I guess, several months? Which means that she ends up with an awful lot of different pieces, mostly mugs, in different glazes. So some of them found homes over the weekend. It was lovely: beautiful pottery all shimmery and bright-coloured in the sun, and tea, and people I don't know terribly well but generally like.
On Tuesday we drove north, for a generally good and low-key not-quite-week. I managed to forget my toiletries, which meant that I got to once again experience several days of beard growth. This is definitely Not For Me. I like the look of a goatee, but that takes actual effort and morning thought to maintain, so it just all comes off. Quite relieved to be home to my razor on Saturday evening.
More importantly I also got to experience life without ADHD meds. It's hard to say what effect this actually had on me since there wasn't really much that needed doing in a specific timeframe while I was there. The main thing I noticed was a return of sugar craving. Thankfully a couple days back on the Concerta has squelched that down again.
Winter term is complete; spring term starts tomorrow, and on Friday night I fly out to Ohio to hang out in what looks to be heavy cloud cover for a total solar eclipse. I am of course pleased that folks in Niagara will get a clearer view but also irritated that it had to be -this year- that I'm missing it. C'est la guerre.