Oh, I Think So

I can't follow a recipe.  It's not that it's too difficult to follow or that I can't read or anything like that. I simply don't have the patience to follow a recipe, especially if there are many steps, there is the involvement of a lot of time, and there's a long list of ingredients.  I make a very good turkey at Thanksgiving because there is just one ingredient which is the turkey itself.  I baste but that's turkey juices.  I make a very good veggie stew that I actually made up which can be converted into a fancier veggie meal which actually preceded the veggie stew.  The stew is made up of maybe five ingredients. My late mom made the most delicious cottage cheese pancakes ever in the world.  They were light but filling and were served with a dot of grape jelly on each one.  I never had the patience to learn how to make them which made me a feel a little regret but then it perhaps was not meant to be.  I've never known anyone who made pancakes ...

On the first anniversary of Donald Trump's unfortunate inauguration and the Women's March came the Women's March to the Polls.  Last year 250,000 women and appreciators of women marched from Grant Park to Federal Plaza. This year, 300,000 women and appreciators turned out and it was a beautiful day!  It was a mid-winter day that had temperatures in the upper 40s.  I couldn't attend last year -- I'd just moved -- so I was glad to have a voice in the proceedings. People do NOT appreciate Donald Trump and neither do I and people were very happy to express themselves.  Yeah, I took pictures. This lady apologized for the misspelling in the sign but said she decided to just go with it.  You go, girl!

The present governor of Illinois is a billionaire.  On the Dem side, the seeming-frontrunner or the guy who has spent the most on commercials is a billionaire.  The millionaire (maybe billionaire) member of a stinking wealthy family with lots of political ties and family political experience wants to be governor.  Why? The present governor of Illinois doesn't know how to make a deal with anyone.  He just wants to be the man in charge who when he says jump, everyone does so.  It just doesn't happen that way in politics, especially in Illinois.  He thinks every one should jump for him is because he is a billionaire whose campaign was funded in part by the wealthiest man in Illinois who is, guess what, a billionaire.  Now he can spend his money however he wants and has done some good, giving a lot of money to his alma mater and giving the City of Chicago money to improve its bike trail.  The present governor of Illinois still doesn't have a clue an...

See this here lake?  This picture was one week ago.  The lake is frozen near the shore.  I looked out the window to see if it was windy because waves tell me yay or nay.  Of course there were no waves as there was ice.  When I got out there it was sunny but windy and damp so it felt much colder than it had yesterday when it was really cold.  Mid-January thaw will be here by next weekend and then it will be over and will get cold again.  We don't live in Chicago because of the weather, now, do we? No, we do not. The sun was setting, the lake was not yet freezing.

I recently tried to crochet something and it was the simplest thing I've ever attempted.  It was so simple -- just one stitch -- that I finished it.  Shall I share now that it looked like the dog's dinner? My tension was all off so it was all kinked up.  I took it to show my niece and sister as if their laying eyes on it would unkink and untwist it.  They suggested that I just undo it and start afresh.  After thinking about it for three days, last night I undid the whole thing and made a rather large ball of yarn. I was in no mood to start the project afresh so I went to the interwebs and read the NY Times, a favorite method of murdering time.  There was a brief article with animals news of 2017, including donkeys who went to jail for four days in India and white giraffes.  At the bottom was an article about people who crochet blankets for elephants when the weather turns cold and baby rhinos whose mothers have been killed by poachers.  Those ...

It was from JEWEL and it was GOOD!

"Bran?  Bran trippin'." "