I need more practice

Here is a slice of apple pie I made yesterday. Filling tasty and crust flaky but, er, "rustic" in appearance. I did not put enough ice water in that crust mixture but I'm learning. It has been at least forty years since I made pies, so I have to learn the skills all over. I know the principles and I've watched lots of pies made. (Honestly, I was better at cakes and cookies and breads, but my pies weren't bad way back when.) So, more practice. And what a nice thing to practice.

I have also watched the first five episodes of Glee: season one this weekend. Fun. I'd seen scenes online but never watched the series. I'm definitely enjoying it.

Dogs, cats, birds, and horses were blessed at San Gabriel today.

For those following my tooth adventures, the area of the root canal (through a crown) finally quieted down. Now I have a sinus infection so though I feel better I don't feel well yet. What's especially sucky is that I have been on antibiotics since 24 September. My sinuses should be free, clear, and happy.

Onward. Have a great week, y'all.



--the BB

Just to reassure y'all

Catherine Palace at Tsarskoye Selo

outside St Petersburg, Russia

November 2004

Just to have SOME visual today

I am OK.





This morning there was a very brief interruption in power at my house and I lost my internet connection. I was not able to get it going again prior to heading out before noon.





The replacement memory stick for my MacBook had arrived and now that we were past the Triduum and Easter Day I was eager to get everything backin place and working. So I ran several errands and headed to the Apple Store. My laptop, on which I do everything, is now in hospital while they install the new memory, then re-image everything (I include this for the few techies out there). Seems that the old ram stick damaged things when partitioning the drive before so one more round of clean slate activities, though with all my date intact. I do not know if I am going to have to reinstall all my applications. Again. For the fourth time.





I stayed in that neighborhood, studying Russian all afternoon, in the hopes that it might be released and good as new in the same day, but no such luck. Just got home from Russian class. Tonight we finally got to the present indicative active of regular verbs! Hooray. We can start making sentences now, though still on a very limited basis. When you only have two hours a week (shortened by a break in he middle) it is hard to make serious headway on a new language.





Anyway, I am home. I am fine. All is well. And, fortunately, I can (on at least a limited basis) make use of my very old desktop to post here. And read mail, though that is a clunky process on this machine.





I am not going to try to catch up on blogging today.





Play nice. Catch you later.


--the BB