Monday, September 22, 2008

In balance? Or teetering on the brink...

Happy autumnal equinox, everyone.

Astronomy Photo of the Day

Depending on your outlook, you may see that as delightful or ominous. For glass-half-full folks, it's the best of both worlds - warm days and cool nights, gardens still bearing and sheds full of firewood, the landscape mellowing into the richest palette of the year.

I try to be both the ant and the grasshopper: I make sure the shelves glow with jars of peaches; bags of tomatoes jazz up the freezer; and I see there are raspberries enough for a batch of jam, BUT I spend a good hour lying in the shade of the redwood, snuggling with a couple of purring cats, watching birds and animals in the amusement park that is our woodlot.

I like to think it's a matter of achieving balance in all things, but I know I'm just lazy and happy.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Skip this is you don't like snarky political digs...

Ran across this on http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/


Maybe it's funny; maybe it's mean-spirited and stupid.

You decide; I've listened to so much partisan claptrap that my moral compass is spinning out of control.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Free at last! Free at last!

I see a day when he can have his hotcakes without my having to make them! Check this out: http://www.batterblaster.com/

And thanks, Moxie, for alerting the waiting world to a life-changing product!
Never mind about the aerosol can; nothing's perfect, and at least the batter's organic and the propellant is ozone-safe.

Seriously, I think I love this, and I haven't even tried it. I know I'm a slow-food kind of woman, but golly, this is just too darned sweet! Be sure to watch the video; I can't wait to watch him shake it like they do in the ad...