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Lord God, we ha' paid it in!
1. I made ten jars of strawberry jam tonight with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
schreibergasse. We got the canning jars and the pectin from Tags. The fruit was courtesy of Schreiber'—I missed the strawberry-picking this weekend, but I feel I made up for it by hulling almost all ten cups tonight. Technically we had slightly more than ten jars' worth, but we had only sterilized ten jars, so the last ladleful was poured into a cold jar and refrigerated until I could take it home and put it in my refrigerator, where it reposes now. Also we ate some. Aside from the part where I accidentally snorted live steam while checking on the boiling strawberries (the acrid smell was something burning off the stovetop underneath the pot, not some horrible side effect of the pectin), it went really well.
2.strange_selkie has linked me a two-thousand-year-old shipwreck. The cargo was terra-cotta roof tiles.
3. That looks like a legionary's helmet with a siren on it to me.
(I'm genuinely not sure what this is, but it's adorable.)
Three things make a post when you're tired. I spent most of my afternoon writing about film; I'm going to see if I can actually spend most of my night asleep.
schreibergasse. We got the canning jars and the pectin from Tags. The fruit was courtesy of Schreiber'—I missed the strawberry-picking this weekend, but I feel I made up for it by hulling almost all ten cups tonight. Technically we had slightly more than ten jars' worth, but we had only sterilized ten jars, so the last ladleful was poured into a cold jar and refrigerated until I could take it home and put it in my refrigerator, where it reposes now. Also we ate some. Aside from the part where I accidentally snorted live steam while checking on the boiling strawberries (the acrid smell was something burning off the stovetop underneath the pot, not some horrible side effect of the pectin), it went really well.2.
strange_selkie has linked me a two-thousand-year-old shipwreck. The cargo was terra-cotta roof tiles.3. That looks like a legionary's helmet with a siren on it to me.
(I'm genuinely not sure what this is, but it's adorable.)
Three things make a post when you're tired. I spent most of my afternoon writing about film; I'm going to see if I can actually spend most of my night asleep.
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I wish I had obtained my grandmother's strawberry jam recipe. It was one of the only two Western foods she ever bothered to learn to make, and it was extraordinary. When I was a child visiting her place, they would let me have a little dish of strawberry jam, nothing else, to eat for breakfast.
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I slept for nearly ten hours! It was great!
When I was a child visiting her place, they would let me have a little dish of strawberry jam, nothing else, to eat for breakfast.
That sounds like a marvelous jam. Did anyone in your family get the recipe?
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I asked my mom about the recipe. I haven't yet read her reply, though, and it's possible the actual recipe was lost, although it looks like she's emailed me photographs of jam recipes torn from Korean cooking magazines...(my mom emails me photographs of magazine pages, botany manuals, etc. all the time).
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I've looked at a lot of pictures and exhibits of winged Assyrian and Assyrian-neighborhood thingies, but not previously a winged pig.
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+1.
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It struck me as human-faced, primarily because of the hair and the outlining of the eye. I agree it has a great skeptical expression.
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Nine
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It's surprisingly flightworthy!
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You're wonderful.
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I never have seen anything quite like it before in Assyrian art. It has tiny little hooves!
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(Anonymous) 2015-06-30 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)...which are so delicately poised. And such a curvaceous rump.
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...which are so delicately poised. And such a curvaceous rump.
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It's a Bugaloo, obviously. They're in the air and everywhere.
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. . . After judicious Googling, that's amazing.
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That seems to me to be a lovely human-headed flying sheep, that's what.
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Oh, nice! Where do you find those?
But ten jars! That's impressive.
That seems to me to be a lovely human-headed flying sheep, that's what.
Thank you for adding your vote! It does seem to have a woolly sort of tail.