Cloudberry is a delicate berry living at a cold latitude.
- using up last week’s chicken stock and bunches of veg to make a nice batch of risotto (and the stainless steel pan, thinner than what I’m used to, didn’t burn it)
- a brilliant app idea at about 10 this morning
- a cheesecake urge satisfied
- vigorous conserving work yesterday (clearing downed trees and brush, &c) – nice to be in nature really surrounded by birds, and, tonight, feeling my muscles
- a few worms finding their way up to the new tray in the wormery
May 13, 02:10PM PDT | 14 cheers | 0 comments
Cloudberry is a delicate berry living at a cold latitude.
- lovely sun today even though rain was predicted
- baby plants, including several from some onion squash seeds I saved last autumn from one we ate – though the seeds were a bit moldy, they’re doing as well as the commercial courgette seeds I bought!
- more time than I expected to write the essay I’m avoiding
- Garibaldi biscuits care of A, who has a secret cache
- lots of time in the next few weeks to move forward on the app project!
- very promising bagels, first I’ve made since last summer!
May 04, 03:00PM PDT | 13 cheers | 0 comments
Cloudberry is a delicate berry living at a cold latitude.
- renewed appreciation for lovely A, who really is very good to me – a treasure. Heck, he made his signature buns for dinner, on his own initiative!
- clarity: someone put an ugly, off comment about Muslim women on a FB post and I could see what was wrong with it and how to respond
- Masterchef! Final semi-final episode. Let’s hope Larkin stays alive; he just needs to pull himself together.
- spring, but remembering to bring tender plants in as it’s gonna be a cold one
- Twitter – starting to pick up speed with the new account for our app, and have a bit of fun
Apr 26, 12:36PM PDT | 14 cheers | 4 comments
Cloudberry is a delicate berry living at a cold latitude.
- being done with all work and religious commitments for now
- having other people to do some of the cleaning up and cooking for a few days
- A’s quiet, peaceful demeanor and general shnuggliness
- the start of this summer’s veg patch…I’ve decided to jump in and not worry about whether we might move – it was so horrible to miss out last year!
- the prospect of a lie-in tomorrow
Apr 21, 02:22PM PDT | 10 cheers | 2 comments
Cloudberry is a delicate berry living at a cold latitude.
- my lovely husband A
- discovering a really good non-chain Southern Italian restaurant, where we had our anniversary dinner
- getting through all the challenging bits of the week
- a chance to sing and play Israeli songs in front of the community, successfully and relaxedly
- gently standing up to the rabbi in singing practice (ok, I did make a bit of a face, but I prevailed so it was ok)
Apr 13, 02:15PM PDT | 11 cheers | 0 comments
Cloudberry is a delicate berry living at a cold latitude.
- sunshine and things blooming, in time for parents’ visit next week
- getting through work in only 3 hours today and
- having enough energy left over to do other stuff
- coming up with a name most people like for our app – most people is good enough, right?
- second-hand veg: big pile of carrots for spicy salad and squidgy tomatoes for making sauce. Yeah!
Apr 10, 09:34AM PDT | 12 cheers | 2 comments
Cloudberry is a delicate berry living at a cold latitude.
- physical work (still tiring)
- sending off the Hebrew poetry typing
- shit TV
- simple dinner: baked sweet potatoes and a cache of frozen homemade goats cheese ravioli – carb heaven
- a good chat with MIL; she was happy I called to see how she was feeling after she’d been through a rocky spell
Apr 03, 03:34PM PDT | 6 cheers | 0 comments
Cloudberry is a delicate berry living at a cold latitude.
- a 4-day weekend full of possibility and, for the moment, a bit of
less freezing warm sunshine - the feeling in my muscles of yesterday’s physical work
- being almost done with the fun freelance job involving typing Hebrew poetry (i.e., good that it’s getting finished without much stress)
- El País – a readable, interesting newspaper with a different perspective on European politics than we get here
- plenty of food in the house for Passover, some of it very nice indeed
Mar 29, 03:43AM PDT | 7 cheers | 0 comments
Cloudberry is a delicate berry living at a cold latitude.
- a good meeting, not too much kvetching or ranting
- getting a very quick and tasty dinner on the table
- using up (and giving away) all the overripe bananas gifted me the other day: banana cake and banana cream pie in honor of Pi Day, hooray!
- the energy to get through writing a large part of my two-page guide to Kabbalat Shabbat psalms for my lay-leader course
- holiday: going to Spain for a few days on Wednesday, yay!
Mar 16, 02:17PM PDT | 8 cheers | 0 comments
Cloudberry is a delicate berry living at a cold latitude.
- being able to stay inside, mostly, and work, as it’s f@*@ing freezing out there
- a lovely bat mitzvah in our community – great party and fellowship
- my Hebrew typing project – so educational! with very few annoying aspects
- comfort food: savoury bread-and-butter pudding with mushrooms, cabbage, leftover challah, and Stilton. (We used to have another term for this in the US, but I can’t remember what it is – anyone?)
- new specs that really do the trick. First new pair in 6 or 7 years.
Mar 10, 04:08PM PDT | 3 cheers | 1 comment
