5/8: visiting
...two cemeteries with Chris as we tried to find some gravestones for which people on findagrave.com requested photographs.
5/7: an invitation
...to photograph the irises in my neighbor's yard. She's given me a standing invitation to wander in her yard and look at her flowers, but today she stopped her car as I was walking to encourage me to take some pictures of the irises before they're gone.
5/6: smoother sailing
...than I anticipated with writing today. And in the evening I worked out a possible format for a pamphlet with some un-anxious tinkering.
5/5: pulling together some thoughts
...about retellings of the Tereus, Procne, and Philomela myth. After taking notes, I did some informal writing to get my mind into sentence-forming, complete-thought mode, and--a bonus--I was able to be on the porch with the cats while I did so.
5/3: quick help
...from a colleague at work as I tried to tie up some loose ends of the academic year.
5/2: Eton mess
After making honey gingerbread cookies this past week, I had an egg white left over, so I decided to search the internet to see if there was a recipe for meringue using a single egg white. There was! I ended up with 9 meringue cookies. We used 4 of them to make modified Eton messes: 2 meringues each, plus puréed strawberries and whipped cream. (I say "modified" because we didn't crunch up the meringues or construct parfait-like layers.) I had used lemon extract rather than vanilla in the meringues, and that gave a nice extra tang to the treat. And we have enough for another round tomorrow.
5/1: a cranberry drink
When I finished the cranberry sauce I made a few weeks ago, there was a little syrupy liquid left, and I decided to keep it. Today I added it to a lime and gin drink, and it was great.
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