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November 26, 2009


10:04:12: Two new posts in the 80 acres blog: http://www.80acresonline.org/blog/ about population management and required activities.
12:04:38: Celery, parsley, onions, chopped. Lamb stew in progress. Laundry in progress. About to start bread. Good kitchen smells--yum.
20:16:58: Husband and son moved in on lamb stew--hardly a quart left.
20:48:06: Two pies in oven, one plain pumpkin and one pumpkin-brownie volcano.

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November 25, 2009

Two pies are in the refrigerator: pumpkin and pumpkin-brownie-volcano. One attempt to do something creative with leftover brownie batter (very thick brownie batter) and somewhat dated refrigerated pie dough...which became an interesting art object in the oven...is--due to lack of refrigerator space--resting on a trivet of stuffing-mix packets in the large soup pot with a lid, to protect it from things that go scritch-scritch in the night.

The alarm rings at six. Turkeys go in the oven by...
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Over a week ago, I mentioned either here or at SFF.net a Welsh hymn we'd sung, but--not having brought home the service leaflet--I couldn't answer someone's question about it, and the only hymnal I could find that day was the 1940.

I can't now find the original post and question about it, or even if it was here or at LJ, so I'll post this both places.

In the 1982 Episcopal Hymnal, it's 610 and the tune name is Blaenhafren. All I could remember of that was "Bl." It's in the section...
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Are you planning to host Thanksgiving at your place or will you travel to see family and/or friends? Do you prefer a traditional menu or something entirely different?


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We host Thanksgiving dinner for friends and travelers. Traditional T-day food with a few extras and regional specialties. This year it's looking like a round dozen at table.
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Behind, but progress being made. Celery, onions, and parsley for the stuffing has been chopped--now in the fridge. The boned out hindquarter of lamb baked yesterday has been cut into cubes, just under half put in freezer bag in freezer. The slightly more than half is in a pot on the stove, with the good drippings from the baking pan, sliced potatoes, two cans of chipotle-diced-tomatoes, a slug of merlot, some sauteed chopped celery and onion, and some parsley, a bay leaf and peppercorns, ...
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11:40:38: Rearranged freezer, then brought back a fair bit (!!) of "big bull" ground beef from the from the ranch.
11:42:09: T-day prep--do bread today. At least one pie today. Check all silverware and china. Clear living-room floor.
11:43:16: Lamb forequarter in oven (part of freezer rearrangement.) Cooked lamb meat takes up less space. Esp. if eaten.

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November 23, 2009

Squick warning for the anti-hunting contingent: this is about killing a deer.

We have 80 acres in an area with a serious overpopulation of white-tail deer. Good management requires controlling population to protect the resource--their food supply. Thus, we gave two people permission to hunt on our land, with all kinds of restrictions which they cheerfully accepted. One is a neighbor; the other lives across the county and his ranch has no deer habitat. We definitely do, as the abundance...
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Since the computer problems last week, LJ has insisted on offering me the HTML posting box and not the Rich Text one...I can get it by clicking on it, but it's annoying that it won't give me what I want (won't even remember what I used last time, which is pretty simple...]

So...anyone know how to set that preference?
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It's being Monday. It's being the Monday before Thanksgiving. It's being the Monday before Thanksgiving with the prospect of losing the afternoon and evening (normally used for T-day prep) to music--a much pleasanter alternative, but then the work's still to do. The small amount of cleanup I did yesterday reinforced my depression rather than helping it. Trying to organize/straighten/clean always dumps huge loads of guilt on me for having let things get into this state, and the guilt is ...
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15:07:14: Singing "Worthy Is the Lamb" from Messiah twice in one morning--plus other stuff--makes for tired choristers.
15:07:50: Grocery shopping for Thanksgiving...are we done yet? (Maybe.)
15:08:25: Saw the excursion train alongside 183 between Cedar Park and Leander--lovely weather for a train ride.

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