More good things - Day 22
Half day of work
Tastings at the local gourmet market which ended in my one splurge of fancy for Thanksgiving dinner: a slab of brie, cracked pepper table water crackers and a jar of (spendy but wow!) walnuts in lemon honey to pour over the top of the softened brie. Yeah. Mmmm.
Blue icicle lights for the front of the house-on sale at Tar-jay.
Unexpectedly finding most of the things for my stocking exchange with Cheril, all perfect and well priced.
Not having to cook and clean for this holiday dinner, just make a salad, some garlic broccoli and a roasted beets and fennel dish. Oh, and bread. And wine.
The sun.
"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
November 23rd, 2006 at 11:14 am
Happy turkey day. I’m drooling thinking about that brie. And honey and mmmmm.
Also, I’m blogging at a new place now
November 23rd, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Enjoy!!!
November 23rd, 2006 at 3:00 pm
I love all things lemon! My splurge was freshly-shucked oysters to make a stuffing I loved as a kid. No one else is able to eat it here dure to allergies.
Happy Thanksgiving!
November 26th, 2006 at 7:41 pm
I’m totally intrigued by the walnuts in lemon honey…I’ve never seen anything like that. It sounds pretty darn good. In fact, I shouldn’t be reading your blog when I’m so damn hungry.