I’ve got your flaky right here
I woke up to this today—perfectly still and very cold. The wind finally died down around midnight and the drifts all settled where they landed. It was still flurrying and I stood out on the deck with my coffee, watching the flakes spiral out of control.
It snowed all weekend and we stayed home and cleaned the house like it hasn’t been cleaned in months. Still quite a lot left to do, but boy howdy the bedrooms and the living room feel so much better.
I still need to make some headway with the beast that is the bureau that is posing as a sideboard in the dining room.
That pile breeds mail even though I swear on a stack of Fedco Seed Catalogs that I purge it every week. OK, I purge the pile on the kitchen counter and what’s left gets moved to the chintzy-ass bureau-as-sideboard. One of these days I’m going to splurge and buy one of these babies. Those lines make me drool. I promise I won’t let anything stack up on that gorgeous piece of mid-century modern beauty.
And can we talk about the deep, purple circles under my eyes? Man, this last bout of ick really sucked it out of me. I need to replenish and get a hair cut. And exercise. And sleep more.
In the meantime, the house is getting there and I made a broth-y minestrone-like soup (sans tomatoes and kidney beans) and flaky whole wheat biscuits from The Tassajara Bread Book, to stave off the cold. Because nothing says healthy like going back for not only a third, but a fourth and a fifth buttermilk biscuit right before bedtime. Oink!
But daaaamn, they were so good. I used buttermilk instead of milk and jeeze-oh-man, those were some tasty puffs of love. Did nothing for my burgeoning ass and waistline but oh, the comfort of sweet and salty biscuits dipped in hot, garlicky broth. Nothing can compare. Such flaky deliciosity.
And then to wake up to this? Well, despite what you might hear on the news today, life is good.
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ETA: The link to the sideboard doesn’t show the one I want, which is this from the scroll list on the side, not the ugly one in the main frame:
"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
December 17th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
It sure is and now that I’ve read this I just might do a little baking myself or at least make the soup. Snowy here too but we carry on! Checked the link to the sideboard. Oh, dear. When I was moving my mother into her new condo I tossed one of those babies out! Even the Sally Ann refused it. Who knew it would have another day?
December 18th, 2007 at 5:37 am
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December 18th, 2007 at 7:24 am
Another lovely post. Your writing style is such a delight.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Cath, the link didn’t show the right sideboard so I edited the post with the photo at the bottom… a looot prettier… (i think).
December 18th, 2007 at 8:56 am
Thanks, Darcy! You’re too sweet.
December 18th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Indeed, this one is very cool! Still, I think I could have got some serious bucks for a lot of Mama’s 60’s and 70’s furniture, had I been thinking! The movers said, ‘Wow, this is a 70’s time warp in here!’ I couldn’t see the retro coolness of it in the heat of the moment…having lived with the stuff for soooooooo long! Now I’ll probably be out hunting for pieces like that and paying the big moulah! Funny!
December 18th, 2007 at 11:54 am
I love that cookbook.
This morning we woke up and the fog had frozen on the trees. It made for very surreal driving around at 6 AM!
December 18th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Lovely sideboard, and biscuits. I wish it would snow where I am.
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