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kyburgFriday. Wow.
I have mosquito coils and know how to use them. I also called Vector Control (since the bees, I know who to call), and discovered that you can call them for mosquitoes AND rats.
Rats? As in the furry brown cuteness that eats my washing machine to itty bits? Cool beans.
So I expect to be visited by officers within the next ten days to help me out with these pests. It was quite specific too - mosquitoes and rats. Good grief. I think I've just discovered something endemic.
Something is singing its little heart out while eating every bit of seed it can grab. Spring is good.
I also need to lop off the deadheads on the rose bushes today - it's also trash day and a good opportunity.
This weekend, there will be much dusting. Being gone a week, and I suspect the dusting got short work before that, and then another week after returning? Cat hair city. I washed the car day before yesterday.
Jim's working the daylight hours, plus a couple both days this weekend. I think Sunday, I could host some board games. Anyone want to come out?![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
digitaldraco? froghugger? caitlin? betnoir? poetpaladin? Bueller? We need three people to play - and I got a buttload of new anime.
Narendra's berry bushes are in full swing - I need to take some pectin to work and show him how easy it would be to turn some of that into jam. *nods*
This week's CSA box contained the first summer squash, another pint of strawberries (YUM) and fennel. I am going to make one kick-ass gratin before the weekend's out, I just know it.
Last night? One of my bachelor mash-ups that I came up with during that year after Cliff died. And I have to say, it's still not half bad -
Go to the Japanese market, and find a cheap pan of thinly sliced beef for sukiyaki. These usually aren't more than half a pound, and if you get the cheaper cuts, it's only a few bucks.
Find a bottle of sukiyaki tare. Go get a bag of the bean threads (the ones in the hot pink bag). Go to the produce section and find a package of bean sprouts and shiitake mushrooms. Leeks optional. Tofu optional.
Put the tare in the pot, and dilute according to the label. Apply heat, and add the beef. Once that gets hot, add the vegetables (washing first, of course). Boil enough water to cook one bundle of the bean threads in another pan - and get a big noodle bowl handy. You can add tofu once the mixture is getting cooked through, if you want - didn't last night.
Cook the bean threads for the minute or so they call for. Put in the bottom of the noodle bowl. Ladle a goodly mixture of the beef, bean sprouts, mushrooms and such from the other pan on top of it, making sure you add enough broth to make it nice and saucey. Give chopsticks and a chinese soup spoon to it, and dig in. Ahhh. Comfort food, deluxe.
I'm going to have to take another look at the bean threads - cold, they'd make kick-ass salad.
Looking around Hawaiian sites yesterday (quiet day again), I noticed we all missed the Merrie Monarch Festival - again - but I think I finally have a good handle on making plans for it now.
It begins Easter weekend. Ha! Tell me Easter was a scintillating time for you this year, go ahead.
Who wants to go with me next year? You'd like a week, for certain. And no, it's not an arm and a leg to go. Think of a budget of around $600 per person, for airfare - and you have almost a year. Come on.
So hey, mark your calendars again -
For now, I go to work.
I have mosquito coils and know how to use them. I also called Vector Control (since the bees, I know who to call), and discovered that you can call them for mosquitoes AND rats.
Rats? As in the furry brown cuteness that eats my washing machine to itty bits? Cool beans.
So I expect to be visited by officers within the next ten days to help me out with these pests. It was quite specific too - mosquitoes and rats. Good grief. I think I've just discovered something endemic.
Something is singing its little heart out while eating every bit of seed it can grab. Spring is good.
I also need to lop off the deadheads on the rose bushes today - it's also trash day and a good opportunity.
This weekend, there will be much dusting. Being gone a week, and I suspect the dusting got short work before that, and then another week after returning? Cat hair city. I washed the car day before yesterday.
Jim's working the daylight hours, plus a couple both days this weekend. I think Sunday, I could host some board games. Anyone want to come out?
digitaldraco? froghugger? caitlin? betnoir? poetpaladin? Bueller? We need three people to play - and I got a buttload of new anime.Narendra's berry bushes are in full swing - I need to take some pectin to work and show him how easy it would be to turn some of that into jam. *nods*
This week's CSA box contained the first summer squash, another pint of strawberries (YUM) and fennel. I am going to make one kick-ass gratin before the weekend's out, I just know it.
Last night? One of my bachelor mash-ups that I came up with during that year after Cliff died. And I have to say, it's still not half bad -
Go to the Japanese market, and find a cheap pan of thinly sliced beef for sukiyaki. These usually aren't more than half a pound, and if you get the cheaper cuts, it's only a few bucks.
Find a bottle of sukiyaki tare. Go get a bag of the bean threads (the ones in the hot pink bag). Go to the produce section and find a package of bean sprouts and shiitake mushrooms. Leeks optional. Tofu optional.
Put the tare in the pot, and dilute according to the label. Apply heat, and add the beef. Once that gets hot, add the vegetables (washing first, of course). Boil enough water to cook one bundle of the bean threads in another pan - and get a big noodle bowl handy. You can add tofu once the mixture is getting cooked through, if you want - didn't last night.
Cook the bean threads for the minute or so they call for. Put in the bottom of the noodle bowl. Ladle a goodly mixture of the beef, bean sprouts, mushrooms and such from the other pan on top of it, making sure you add enough broth to make it nice and saucey. Give chopsticks and a chinese soup spoon to it, and dig in. Ahhh. Comfort food, deluxe.
I'm going to have to take another look at the bean threads - cold, they'd make kick-ass salad.
Looking around Hawaiian sites yesterday (quiet day again), I noticed we all missed the Merrie Monarch Festival - again - but I think I finally have a good handle on making plans for it now.
It begins Easter weekend. Ha! Tell me Easter was a scintillating time for you this year, go ahead.
Who wants to go with me next year? You'd like a week, for certain. And no, it's not an arm and a leg to go. Think of a budget of around $600 per person, for airfare - and you have almost a year. Come on.
So hey, mark your calendars again -
For now, I go to work.
