Let’s Get a Christmas Tree
Spent the afternoon outside at a tree farm, looking for the perfect trees. Since it was 20 degrees and too cold for any sensible person to be outside very long, we worked fast to get things done.
Spent the afternoon outside at a tree farm, looking for the perfect trees. Since it was 20 degrees and too cold for any sensible person to be outside very long, we worked fast to get things done.
Diligent workers from Maine and New Jersey recently descended on Portland to churn out some of the best gingerbread men ever created.
Well, not really. Maybe somebody is just typing this and acting like they’re us. But at least there’s a small bit of activity on this thing.
Uh, maybe we’ll have a rather active fall. Yeah, that’s it!
Sunday, April 1st: Thom just opened up Charlie’s dog door in the mudroom for the season … right after disposing on the now-brown Christmas tree that’s been decorating our side yard for the past three months.
Who says they don’t know college football in the Garden State? The Louisville - Rutgers game was one of the most electric stadium atmospheres I’ve ever been in, and the Scarlet Knights settled down after a tough first quarter and roared back for a win that vaults them into the top ten.
Think Vanderbilt football futility, multiply that feeling by ten, and you get an idea of where Rutgers football has been and how huge this win was. Outstanding!
Dave is still weepy.
Chris came up for a vist recently, and we had a great time. While he was here, we introduced him to a few of Maine’s tastiest (and freshest) creatures. Chris definitely came out on top.
I’m not sure how many of the Top 10 were used on little goblins, but suffice it to say that Jen was spotted wandering the sidewalk wearing a sheet and Scream mask, tormenting drivers.
Seattle. Land of coffee, salmon and geeky billionaire techies. Also a great place to stuff our faces, which we did on every occasion. All in all, a really cool city. Go there now.
Or just look at these pics and maybe you’ll feel like you’ve been there. Yeah, that’s it.
Recently ordered a tasty bowl of Bi Bim Bop at Portland’s Fuju restaurant on Exchange Street, and had a flashback to our friend Shinhye at Cordon Bleu in Ottawa. (Hi Shinhye!) She’s now back in Korea for a couple of years before returning to Canada to settle in Vancouver, and introduced us to this wonderful dish one night in Ottawa. If I’ve got this right, Bi Bim Bop, a staple Korean dish, consists of rice, a spicy red sauce (I think called “kochujang”), ground meat, a fried egg, and flavorful vegetables. (You basically mix all of the ingredients together in your bowl after adding the sauce.) I remember when Shinhye brought this to our apartment one night and explained how it was made, and how she was very amused by what tiny amounts of kochujang quickly made our faces red and sweaty, while she was able to mix in tablespoons-full of the sauce into her dish, and eat it as though it was something as bland as a bowl of cornflakes. Shinhye, we need your recipe again!