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Holiday stuff, more or less
Dec. 25th, 2009 04:10 pmJana gave me a copy of the Deirdre Le Faye/Folio Society edition of Jane Austen's letters, bound in old silk, no less. Huge, but gorgeous and much appreciated. She got David Pearson's Books As History, by way of prepping for her various lectures this Spring. We gave other folks a random sampling of things I thought they'd want: a black silk cravat, earrings with a portrait of Louise Brooks on them and so forth. Other things are forthcoming.
The morning here was less than fun. I went out to shovel the backyard path and the area in front of the garage which was packed with ice and snow and frozen plow sludge, and discovered one of our neighbors stuck at the far end of the alley. I slogged down and got his car dug out (VW Bugs, not so much of a heavy duty winter car. Cute though), then slogged back to dig some more. Now my shoulder's killing me again. Bleah. :-(
But we are inside and it is warm and pleasant. I cranked through A.S. Byatt's enjoyable The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye this afternoon while sitting under a quilt and an additional blanket of hot, purring cats and sipping some very pleasant mango green tea. Next up, I'm making goat-cheese and apple quiche with a mixed green salad with blackberries and almonds on the side for dinner. Oh, there's tiramisu. Not a bad life, if you don't weaken. :-)
Sunday, we get to look forward to brunch with friends, followed by a Parisian Bohemian themed tea and foodbank drive, hosted by my friend Julia who just started her own tea business this year. See Bingley's Tea for teas and related items of interest. All assuming that the weather doesn't do anything worse and we can in fact get out of our house. Fingers crossed on that count.
The morning here was less than fun. I went out to shovel the backyard path and the area in front of the garage which was packed with ice and snow and frozen plow sludge, and discovered one of our neighbors stuck at the far end of the alley. I slogged down and got his car dug out (VW Bugs, not so much of a heavy duty winter car. Cute though), then slogged back to dig some more. Now my shoulder's killing me again. Bleah. :-(
But we are inside and it is warm and pleasant. I cranked through A.S. Byatt's enjoyable The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye this afternoon while sitting under a quilt and an additional blanket of hot, purring cats and sipping some very pleasant mango green tea. Next up, I'm making goat-cheese and apple quiche with a mixed green salad with blackberries and almonds on the side for dinner. Oh, there's tiramisu. Not a bad life, if you don't weaken. :-)
Sunday, we get to look forward to brunch with friends, followed by a Parisian Bohemian themed tea and foodbank drive, hosted by my friend Julia who just started her own tea business this year. See Bingley's Tea for teas and related items of interest. All assuming that the weather doesn't do anything worse and we can in fact get out of our house. Fingers crossed on that count.