Happy Easter!

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Our Easter dinner was Chicken Satay and sticky rice (and veggies and EasterEggs). No, not quite traditional, but it's what the little kids wanted to eat. I love the chicken satay from one of my thai cookbooks, it has ginger and honey, garlic and soy sauce in the marinade. yum, yum, yumm! Tommorrow is a more (or less) traditional dinner, roast pork, baked sweet potato, bread rolls, more veggies, apple pie...

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mea culpa! mea culpa!

I've been reading, lots. I read a stack by Kelley Armstrong, and right now I'm reading everything the library has by Laurie R. King. It's what I feel like right now. And there's been several anthologies in there as well.

I had a wonderful moment today. I stepped out of the front door, and a little bird, a house finch, was singing at me. He was sitting in the tree right outside. He let me whistle back to him, and we talked back and forth for a little while.

thanks to "The Kansas School Naturalist", 42:2, for the picture of a house finch.

Book update, in a snow storm

Because of the snow, I've been watching the WeatherChannel(tm) all day. They had a short spot with Jen Carfagno; she's on location in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, in anticipation of Ground Hog Day. It's iced there, and the stage they use for the groundhog day ceremony is glass slick. Not my idea of a vacation spot. I wonder if she volunteered for the assignment?

• Black swan rising / Carroll, Lee
• Norweigan Sweater Techniques for today's knitter/ Chenowyth, Theresa
• Entrelac : the essential guide to interlace knitting / Drysdale, Rosemary
• Hexwood / Jones, Diana Wynne
• The children of kings / Stern, Dave (a star trek novel, with Cpt Pike)
• Mason-Dixon knitting : the curious knitters' guide / Gardiner, Kay
• The last page / Huso, Anthony (very good first novel, I'm going to be on the lookout for the next one)
• Super cute : 25 amigurumi animals / Obaachan, Annie
• Rushed to the altar / Feather, Jane
• Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty (I don't think I would recommend this to most people. It's not very frightening to me, probably because I already believe in demons and possession. :( )

The library account shows that I have over 50 books checked out, but most of those are children's books. So 50 books will fit into two reusable grocery bags, no problem-o! Here's some of my favs of the kids books we've read:

• The curse of the Cobweb Queen / Hayes, Geoffrey (dinosaur detective boy!)
  
• Christopher Robin leads an expedition / Krensky, Stephen,ed., and Milne
• Arthur Spiderwick's field guide to the fantastical world around you / DiTerlizzi, Tony and Black, Holly. (wow! the drawings are amazing, although it's probably more suited for teens or pre-teens)
• Quackenstein : hatches a family / Bardhan-Quallen, Sudipta (a very cute duck and platypus story)
  

January Total (adult books!): 25

The world's a small place

I ran across someone I knew a long time ago. We worked the same summer job, the years after I graduated from highschool. A.J. was in town to do training for a website his company developed, and I was there for the training. Wierd! And, after a little poking around on the company website, and snooping thru the training materials, it looks like the company (which seems to be doing quite well) is A.J., his younger sister, and another guy who went to college with me. I'm glad to know that they're doing something that makes the world a better place (and their website company really does).


Reading List for January:

• Catacomb, by Mercedes Lackey
• Indulgence in Death, by J.D. Robb
• In too deep ,by Jayne Ann Krentz
• Dream Called Time, S.L. Viehl
• Alien Crimes, ed by ???
  
• Atlantis and other Places, by Harry Turtledove (This book included the second short story I've read recently, both by Turtledove, that talked about Hox genes. Interesting!)
• The Bards of Bone Plain, by Patricia McKillip

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Little G reacts to the stuff like her mommy does. oh yay. oh, lord help us!