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2021 Snowpocalypse!
Now that I'm at a full computer again, some photos! Snow, cooking, cats, and Gloomhaven.
Our backyard out the main bedroom window, with lots of footprint evidence of activity. Enough so that I'm contemplating getting a trail camera and mounting it in the back somewhere.
If you look carefully just left of center, and about horizontally centered, there's two straight parallel lines coming at the camera from the line of tracks. No clue what that could be caused by.
This is the Lancashire Butter Pie that I made the day before the snowpocalypse. The egg is collected around the perimeter because the recipe had you brush the top with the beaten egg, then chill it while the oven preheated. I don't know why. Next time I'll brush it just before it goes in.
Pie porg seen some shit.
This is the pie being eaten a couple of days later, along with summer sausage, cherry tomatoes, and the spice dip I mentioned a few posts back.
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myrialux toasting his waffles after I introduced the historical concept of the toasting fork to him. He is also wearing a nightcap and is bundled in his dressing gown because it's freezing inside the house at this point, so he is extra Victorian.
D.Va is very curious about the fire with no grate in front of it. We supervised her closely, although I expect she wouldn't have burned herself.
Where we spent most of the days, honestly, bundled up in front of the fire, watching the activity on the bird feeder (and with blinds/curtains open for the windows getting sun, to help with light and heat).
D.Va loved the fireplace.
We also played Gloomhaven a lot. We've got this folding table from Ikea, and furniture sliders got it into the living room so we could set it up in front of the fire. D.Va really wants to play with all the little bits and pieces.
Also! I re-bound the scenario book! The front and back covers of the scenario book are the same paper as the rest of the book, which makes it annoying to try to find the covers when you want to close the book or look up the treasure list in back, etc. Once we had power and I could use the computer again, I mocked up a PNG of the cover and the wire binding holes, tested it a few times, then sent it to the Cricut Maker and had it cut a cardstock (decorative, because that's what I had) front cover and a cardboard (cereal box, because that's what I had) back cover with...and this is the really clever bit...little tabs so you can easily thumb right to the front and back.
And oh yeah, I now have a Cricut Maker machine. Gave it to myself for Christmas. :)
The scenario book is wire bound in the style that allows you to pull all the wire out at once if you want to, which is a bit fiddly to work with, but if you use pliers to open them up a bit you can add pages/covers to the binding, and then squeeze the wire rings back down again. It's not a beautiful job, but it's an adequate one.
Also we hit the grocery store today. No milk except for non-dairy stuff and expensive organic stuff, no lactose-free stuff so we didn't bother. Neither of us drinks it straight and we don't need to make anything that has it as an ingredient right now.
Our backyard out the main bedroom window, with lots of footprint evidence of activity. Enough so that I'm contemplating getting a trail camera and mounting it in the back somewhere.
If you look carefully just left of center, and about horizontally centered, there's two straight parallel lines coming at the camera from the line of tracks. No clue what that could be caused by.
This is the Lancashire Butter Pie that I made the day before the snowpocalypse. The egg is collected around the perimeter because the recipe had you brush the top with the beaten egg, then chill it while the oven preheated. I don't know why. Next time I'll brush it just before it goes in.
Pie porg seen some shit.
This is the pie being eaten a couple of days later, along with summer sausage, cherry tomatoes, and the spice dip I mentioned a few posts back.
myrialux toasting his waffles after I introduced the historical concept of the toasting fork to him. He is also wearing a nightcap and is bundled in his dressing gown because it's freezing inside the house at this point, so he is extra Victorian.D.Va is very curious about the fire with no grate in front of it. We supervised her closely, although I expect she wouldn't have burned herself.
Where we spent most of the days, honestly, bundled up in front of the fire, watching the activity on the bird feeder (and with blinds/curtains open for the windows getting sun, to help with light and heat).
D.Va loved the fireplace.
We also played Gloomhaven a lot. We've got this folding table from Ikea, and furniture sliders got it into the living room so we could set it up in front of the fire. D.Va really wants to play with all the little bits and pieces.
Also! I re-bound the scenario book! The front and back covers of the scenario book are the same paper as the rest of the book, which makes it annoying to try to find the covers when you want to close the book or look up the treasure list in back, etc. Once we had power and I could use the computer again, I mocked up a PNG of the cover and the wire binding holes, tested it a few times, then sent it to the Cricut Maker and had it cut a cardstock (decorative, because that's what I had) front cover and a cardboard (cereal box, because that's what I had) back cover with...and this is the really clever bit...little tabs so you can easily thumb right to the front and back.
And oh yeah, I now have a Cricut Maker machine. Gave it to myself for Christmas. :)
The scenario book is wire bound in the style that allows you to pull all the wire out at once if you want to, which is a bit fiddly to work with, but if you use pliers to open them up a bit you can add pages/covers to the binding, and then squeeze the wire rings back down again. It's not a beautiful job, but it's an adequate one.
Also we hit the grocery store today. No milk except for non-dairy stuff and expensive organic stuff, no lactose-free stuff so we didn't bother. Neither of us drinks it straight and we don't need to make anything that has it as an ingredient right now.
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Anything overhead that could drop icicles? Hm, did it get warm enough that icicles would fall?
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But nothing to hold them usually clears them. 0:)
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Also the original calls for a pie plate that’s about 7” in diameter and a bit deeper than ours. Ours was 9” and I was only able to do 1 full layer of potato and a second less dense layer.
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The two lines in the snow look like what happens here when you get a bit of snow coming off a tree and falling - it doesn't need to be straight overhead where the marks are, just that you get a bunch of snow coming at once from an angle. (Though there might be other reasons!)
Also, I have that same table three feet from me. (It's my working altar space when I have stuff on it, which I only do when working, because cat.) I covetted it for years before my last move, because it's fantastic for varying amounts of space needs.
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I really like this table! We just keep it hidden away for the most part, since we don’t have a daily need for it.
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There's a niche in the wall next to the fireplace that's apparently supposed to be where the TV goes, but...that's also where the main traffic pattern through the room goes, so you can't center the furniture on the TV either. They really should have put the TV space where the fireplace is and the fireplace on the side wall, where it could be centered, but then you wouldn't see the Feature Wall as you walked into the room, now, would you? ARGH.
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