The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 02: A Comma (is a Restful Pause)

[Hypoxia]

Various:

Grumpy kids soon learn to appreciate a milk bottle filled with watered wine.

Oh fuck, my right eye is deteriorating. It's back to the retinologist on Monday. This may set back our autumn travel plans. Guess I won't look at the eclipse either.

I can track the movement of bears here by listening to neighborhood dogs.

GrossOut (Grocery Outlet discount market chain) sells surprisingly good McDonald's espresso grind coffee pretty cheap, I think it was three bucks for 3/4 pound.

I hate helicopters overhead here. There's either a fugitive or a forest fire.

 

[Handley_Page]

So I guess none of you vacuum inside the desk drawers either.

Mine have velvet lining that gets dusty and needs vacuuming.

But surely, a drawer is an enclosed space; it cannot get dusty
(well, perhaps over a century or two).

Here we go; pre-autumn winds, loads of clouds and cool temperatures.
Close the doors, folks and see that the heating works OK. It's gonna be a long winter.

OK; where's my blasted coffee ?

 

[oggbashan]

...

Grumpy kids soon learn to appreciate a milk bottle filled with watered wine.

...

Gripe Water sold for use on babies with colicky stomachs, or just distressed and unable to sleep, used to be marketed as a healthier alternative to a spoonful of Gin.

In the UK Gin was used to soothe fractious babies up to the 1930s.

The active ingredient of Gripe Water? Alcohol. The Gin manufacturers had put a fancy pseudo-medical label on the bottle and sold their Gin at a higher price to anxious mothers.

BUT - in very small quantities, Gin AND Gripe Water were effective for soothing babies.

Modern equivalents of Gripe Water are alcohol-free.

Gin in your coffee, anyone?

 

[MagicaPractica]

I hate helicopters overhead here. There's either a fugitive or a forest fire.

I'm stealing that for a writer's prompt this week. Thanks.

OK; where's my blasted coffee ?

I don't know. Where's mine?

Gin in your coffee, anyone?

Ah, there it is. Well, maybe whiskey.



The Advil worked. She went to sleep and let me get five hours in so I woke refreshed and ready to tackle the day. I have a long list and suspect there is NO way I can get it done, but I'll rank it and do the most important first. Which would be . . . breakfast! Yes, I think an omelet today.

Have a good day all! I'm sure I'll be in and out.

 

[NotWise]

Here we go; pre-autumn winds, loads of clouds and cool temperatures.
Close the doors, folks and see that the heating works OK. It's gonna be a long winter.

Yikes! Autumn?

We still have a month left in summer. Our real fall weather won't start until October.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Yikes! Autumn?

We still have a month left in summer. Our real fall weather won't start until October.

We've got some lovely cool weather today and leaves are JUST beginning to turn and drop. It is early.

Peach butter cooking in the crock pot. Bathrooms clean. Munchkin in the tub. Veggies marinating to go on the grill with burgers for lunch.

 

[NotWise]

We've got some lovely cool weather today and leaves are JUST beginning to turn and drop. It is early.

Our earliest leaves to turn will do so in the first couple weeks of October. Oak and aspen up at elevation will turn about the same time or maybe a little earlier. The cottonwoods along the river will be at their height of color around Halloween. The mulberry in my yard won't drop leaves until mid-November.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

The very smallest hints of fall color are starting, the dry bean vines are drying, the cabbages are forming heads and the tomatoes are getting ready to dive into ripeness. Harvest time is coming, it seems, so I got set up for sauerkraut (spicy, garlic sauerkraut!) I have over a gallon of blueberries frozen and yet more to pick with huckleberries due next month. I believe I shall make a blueberry-nectarine cobbler today for dessert tonight and breakfasts the next few days. Writing? Some other time.

 

[Handley_Page]

The very smallest hints of fall color are starting, the dry bean vines are drying, the cabbages are forming heads and the tomatoes are getting ready to dive into ripeness. Harvest time is coming, it seems, so I got set up for sauerkraut (spicy, garlic sauerkraut!) I have over a gallon of blueberries frozen and yet more to pick with huckleberries due next month. I believe I shall make a blueberry-nectarine cobbler today for dessert tonight and breakfasts the next few days. Writing? Some other time.

Cabbages well-formed and getting BIG round here.

What is " cobbler " [with some suitable fruit ]

 

[NotWise]

What is " cobbler " [with some suitable fruit ]

A stewed mix of sweetened fruit topped with a simple pastry topping and baked.

According to Wikipedia, it originated in the North American English colonies, and in the UK the pastry topping is usually scones.

The stewed mixture can also be beets and meat mixtures, and at that point I think it isn't very different from "pot pie" in the US.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

And the pastry can be either pie crust, short bread or (most common in the US) sweetened baking powder biscuits which are our version of scones. Lazy bear that I am, I'll use frozen pie crust.

 

[MagicaPractica]

And the pastry can be either pie crust, short bread or (most common in the US) sweetened baking powder biscuits which are our version of scones. Lazy bear that I am, I'll use frozen pie crust.

My favorite is a biscuit from the Smitten Kitchen blog that actually uses heavy cream and hard boiled egg yolk with the flour and butter. You pulse it in the food processer to bring it together, so simple. Form patties and refrigerate a few minutes. It's part of her rhubarb cobbler recipe.

 

[NotWise]

When I was young my favorite dessert was a variant on cobbler, called "apple brown betty." My mother used the very tart apples from the tree in our back yard and added a little brown sugar.

 

[MagicaPractica]

When I was young my favorite dessert was a variant on cobbler, called "apple brown betty." My mother used the very tart apples from the tree in our back yard and added a little brown sugar.

I have heard of this but never made it. We have Northern Spy apples, which get sweeter when cooked. I'm partial to apple crisp made with pecans and maple syrup.

 

[NotWise]

I have heard of this but never made it. We have Northern Spy apples, which get sweeter when cooked. I'm partial to apple crisp made with pecans and maple syrup.

My Mom made apple crisp, too. I'm fond of those memories.

 

[MagicaPractica]

Don't mind me, wide awake at two am. Just gonna raid the fridge for a spoonful of peanut butter.

 

[Handley_Page]

Don't mind me, wide awake at two am. Just gonna raid the fridge for a spoonful of peanut butter.

I just made some tea, if you like.
I might be tempted to put a drop or two of whiskey in tea, but not brandy (that and rum are good in coffee).

I had to find an equivalence chart of "Gas Mark" settings for temperature (C or F).
This cooking stuff ain't easy. . . . .

 

[HuckPilgrim]

Don't mind me, wide awake at two am. Just gonna raid the fridge for a spoonful of peanut butter.

That is the best snack!

 

[Handley_Page]

I guess many of us can hear a Father when addressing a Son.

Meanwhile, I got cold trying to catch a decent fish - failed miserably.
So a nice cup of Tea at this time of night, I think.

BTW; Do we know of any Lits in Barcelona ?

 

[TxRad]

The eclipse was the big news of the day and I slept through it.

I wonder what the number will be on blind people tomorrow from watching the event improperly.

The exterior of the boat is finished. Tonight we flip it over and start on the interior. Since this boat will be used for hunting, I'm thinking about covering all the flat interior surfaces with camouflage burlap. It will also make things non slip. I have a call into the owner.

Chicken stir fry for supper.

 

[MagicaPractica]

That is the best snack!

It really does do the trick when I'm too hungry to sleep.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Haven't had that problem. Too much in pain? At times. Too hungry? Nah.

My late wife was often too tired to bother with a pie crust and too proud to use a frozen one so we ate a lot of crisps. I miss those . . .

So tonight I made a blueberry/nectarine pie . . . and used a frozen crust!

 

[NotWise]

My late wife was often too tired to bother with a pie crust and too proud to use a frozen one so we ate a lot of crisps. I miss those . . .

I imagine that you miss them for more than one reason.

My youngest daughter is the family pie specialist.

She started cooking them while she was in high school and she gathered experience from our old friends who were willing to instruct her. She doesn't cook much at home, but when she comes here for the holidays she gifts us with pie after delicious pie.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Damn, what a shame.

 

[TxRad]

My first Summer Loving Contest story was submitted around 8:30 and was up before 5:30.

Coffee for everyone.