Back in November, the week before the week of Thanksgiving, we went out to visit my mom in Idaho. We got up ridiculously early on Saturday and caught a flight that got us to Salt Lake City before noon. It was a turbulent flight with noisy babies along, but the view out of the window …
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Fox
The big wildlife event of the past week was in Newton, although it’s true that we saw two pine siskins in our heritage apple tree, and got a good long look at a pileated woodpecker across the driveway in Casco last weekend. Driving home from work last Monday (Dec 29 ’08) I saw a red …
Kasha (and pilaf, while I’m thinking of it)
Last weekend when we were shopping for something to cook for supper I said, “pot roast.” When the question arose of what to make with it, rice? I said, “No, kasha.” When I was a kid (and Hanna can confirm this if she chooses to comment on this post) pot roast and kasha was a …
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Baklava
Yesterday Arlene went to the (not so new, but we haven’t been there before) new Institute of Contemporary Art with some of her old art teacher friends, and stopped with them at Sofra in Cambridge, at the border of Watertown and Belmont, for lunch. It’s in a building covered in somewhat garish glazed tiles that …
Concert at Hebrew College
On Tuesday evening instead of our regular meeting of the klezmer class we performed in a concert at Hebrew College. It turned out to be more like a Hanukah party for Prozdor, the high-school program of H. C. We had expected that there was another group on the program, the Prozdor klezmer band, directed by …
Pocket recorder = Klez music online
I downloaded an audio recorder application to my iPhone just before going to band rehearsal Tuesday night, and figured out how to use it in time to record two tracks for here. Since I just put the thing on the floor behind me, I was the closest and sounded the loudest so the balance is …
A car named rudolph
This car was coming towards me when I went past the elementary school down the block on my way to work yesterday. It went the other way around the block and was ahead of me when I got out to the main road. You can’t really tell from a quick look at that photo why …
Ice storm photos (part 2)
Here are some photos from last Sunday (Dec. 7) in Maine. The sun came out enough to make things sparkle a little, but there wasn’t an overall gorgeous sparkly time. Even when there is, those are really hard to photograph. So, Woods: A close-up of some weed stems (maybe they’re blueberry bushes, not weeds!) Close-up …
Rhodo-thermo-dendrometer
..which makes no sense etymologically. It should be rhododendrothermometer, but I don’t like the way that sounds as well. Monday morning Arlene looked out the window and said, “This is the first time this year I’ve seen the rhodo leaves all curled up.” We have a PJM rhododendron in front of our dining room window, …
Ice storm
We drove up to Casco on Saturday morning rather than Friday evening because of the storm. In Newton it was just rain on Friday and had cleared by midafternoon, but farther north there was sleet and freezing rain, the storm was continuing later into the evening, and there were warnings of slick roads. What we …