quinoa recipe at a really great link

This lovely woman has just published her 2nd cookbook Super Natural Everyday. it is super indeed but even more so is her site because you can go down the choices on the left and find everything - except meat - that you might want to have a great recipe for. Lauren put me onto her maybe 2 years ago.. Heidi is the place i go first and her monthly FAVORITEs list is a delight too...good STUFF you enjoy knowing about.

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/baked-quinoa-patties-recipe.html

blood stories

Here's an article by Willl Self (newly-diagnosed with PV) in yesterday's 
Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/oct/21/will-self-blood-disease

We often blame ourselves for our illnesses -- but if we go that route, we need to look at the collective self, spewing carcinogens into the air in order to support our elevated (and computer and car generated) life styles.

got recipes? for big Zucchini or green tomatoes?

if so, please post!

Here's one I adapted with turkey bacon, in part, because there's a muslim in my house. I hope she does not think she has sinned...

http://southernfood.about.com/od/zucchinirecipes/r/Zucchini-Squares.htm

OK LOLO, no prob getting here.

Go A!

Winged feet to eam, who left the Big Apple to run a half marathon today.

What to shred

according to Yahoooooo
http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/113675/shred-financial-documents-mainstreet

HEY LYN!

CHALKBOARD DATA

The painting i did at the library is on chalkboard paint. Ariel knows all about it.

as to the above~
To create this effect at home, paint a wall (or a section of a wall) with chalkboard paint, such as Rustoleum's Chalkboard Brush-On Paint. Then hang a selection of vintage picture frames, which you can often find for modest sums at thrift shops and flea markets; vintage-style picture frames are also available from online sources such as United Picture & Frame Co. Alternatively, use a vinyl wall decal like the Oval Frame; $29 at Dali Decals.

Welcome Auntie!

Lyn A has joined us as a viewer and potential poster!

I love the view from Lyn's kitchen window --  one each of us has seen or at least been seen at, at one time or another.

 Here's sunset from my kitchen sink last night -- imagine the sounds of Middle and High School Football games in surround sound.

The picture was taken from my cell phone. My how technology has changed in the half-century since I was a young un eating cream of wheat at the kitchen counter where Lynn makes her morning coffee.  Today, I could probably upload a video and send the sounds through airwaves to your computers in Atlanta, San Louis Obispo, Jackson, New York, Sewanee, and Singapore in mere seconds with the click of my pinky finger.

Cat Door!

You know who really rules the roost!

Hey, is that a painting by child artist Heather in the background?

HOW ABOUT A DOOR FOR STARTERS JOLIE ; ) ?!

Wall

I would first like to say I have never blogged, I'm a blog weerjun. And my wainscot entry might have been a boring start. But now I am glad to report that thanks to the talented carpenter with a great attitude, who kept trying different pieces of wood configurations, he pulled it all together and it really looks like panelling. Upholstery- guilt lady in Wyoming, I appreciate your fabric story so much...I have in my home a closet of shame. It is stacked with fabrics and shiny objects that looked so good at the store. All sales final of course. I think if you get a big group of people together, and get them all to confess their worst waste stories, everyone will feel better. In fact, it is helping me now. Next entry involves a human.......not just a wall.

windows

This is our living room window at about 7 am. It is tinted, I hate that it is tinted, but I guess thats a tropical thing. It gets light at about 6:30 here, it goes from pitch dark to light pretty fast. M gets up around 6:40 and sits and looks out the window most mornings until I get up around 7:15. I took this picture from our bedroom door before she knew I was up. But I almost always know when she is up, I think I hear her little feet the minute they touch the floor. A couple of mornings in a row she spotted the two resident hornbills out the window - which I think is very cool.

week end

I lingered in bed this morning, listening to the dulcet keys of Herbie Hancock.  Plans this weekend for paying bills, feeding orchids, grading papers, running, taking a friend's mom  to Brunch,  checking in with Ariel about a project we are doing together. (She's doing some paid research for our Design Collaborative, to bolster advocacy for the program!).

It was a rough and tumble week for me in Department Chair land that required me, among other things, to call emergency medical personnel, placate angry students, address a frustrated faculty member's tearful outburst, and later, fight back my own tears in a discussion with my Dean about necessary accreditation reports. After this drama, grading papers actually feels meditative. And checking in with you, restorative.

 So What are you folks up to this weekend and week?  Heather just posted a comment on a September post below that she built a sidewalk!  Wondering how Karen's stairs wainscots are going?  Imagining falling Snow in Jackson, Cheerios in Singapore, and Ariel running in fall foliage. Write back if you are able to steal a moment to thrill the blogsteress with merely a post.

Love, Lola, Lolo, Lolly

Pretty pictures Lolo.