1. If I get any more fund-raising calls at this, the very end of the month, I'm gonna call back and sing "Old Mother Hubbard, she went to the cupboard, to get her poor doggie a bone. But when she got there, the cupboard was bare, and so the poor doggie had none." The thing about politicians is that they are so well paid, they never experience having the money go before the end of the month.
2. I am gonna have potato pancakes with maple syrup for lunch today. fingers crossed. and thanks be to the Little Oscars (small food processors). peel and chop one potato, add to LO, add 1 raw egg, and spin!! when it's nice (no big lumps), pour all into hot pan with melted butter and cook till it's crispy brown on the edges and the bubbles in the middle have popped. Flip it over and cook some more till it nice & brown. yum!! put it on your plate, with more butter if you're a hedonist like me,
and a bit of genuine maple syrup.
3. It's nice and cool today. have turned off the AC and opened a window in the den, which has a ceiling fan. so comfy! Most of my old neighbors do this, too. Margaret across the street never uses her AC. Of course, she was born and raised here, and she's used to the heat and humidity. I was born and raised elsewhere, and I simply love being hot rather than cold all the time.
4. I am reading a fabulous novel: THE BLAZING WORLD by Siri Hustvedt. It's about a woman artist named Harriet (Harry to some) Burden. Ordinarily I am a very speedy reader, but not this book. I'm reading every word, even the footnotes!! Footnotes in a novel?? Oh yes! This is like no other novel I've ever read. Glorious!!
5. My dogwood is blooming, finally--weeks after the American dogwoods have bloomed and lost their petals. It's some kind of Antipodean dogwood--from New Zealand or Australia?? I love its creamy yellowish-green blossoms.
OOPS. my dogwood is from the Himalayas or China, and it's called "Cornus capitata" (or "Himalayan strawberry tree, Evergreen dogwood, or Bentham's Cornus"). My tree book says:
From the Himalayas and China, this evergreen dogwood makes a rounded, low-branched tree of 30 ft (9m) after many years, with dense, grayish green foliage. In late spring and early summer its canopy is decked with massed flowerheads, each with 4 large bracts of a beautiful soft lemon yellow. In autumn, it has large, juicy (but tasteless) scarlet compound fruit.
I like this lively writing! And I did not realize potato pancakes were so easy to make. Thanks!
ReplyDeletefirst comment, and very welcome to see, too! there are many ways to make potato pancakes-with flour, onions, whatever but this is how my German-born mother made them (minus the little oscar). we had to grate the raw potatoes on those old-fashioned knuckle busters, then beat in the eggs and fry them. These have all of that old-fashioned flavor, but none of the blood from the small knuckles. so easy!! and so delicious!! Enjoy!!
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