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Mar. 28th, 2014 06:25 pmFinally some warm weather this weekend! My winter soccer league is over but I booked a Meetup game for tomorrow, even though rain is predicted. I'll just bundle up, I'm so sick of being stuck inside! Yay for spring finally arriving! Our long regional nightmare is OVER!
For some reason Verizon decided to give me HBO free for four months--have NO IDEA why but I'll take it. They're running mini-marathons of Game of Thrones to catch us up for the next season, which starts next Sunday. I'm still mulling over whether I want to keep watching--it is an amazing show, I just don't want to see more pregnant women getting stabbed and bad people rewarded, over and over. I mean, WTF, showing what they did to Robb's BODY? And poor Grey Wind? DO NOT WANT. Whatever tesse's big reveal is (trying to cheer me up last June after I was in complete shock, she said something Very important is about to happen). It had better happen in the first episode if they want to keep me as viewer, is all I can say!
It is a great show, even if I'm bored stiff by everything north of the wall. Seriously, zombies are just dull.
Last Thanksgiving when I was up at my parents' place in New Hampshire, I gathered some black walnut fruits from their giant tree in their front yard. Packed them into a plastic bag, brought them home and tossed them into the freezer. Last week I decided to process them so I defrosted them, pulled off the husks (getting my hands very stained--there's a natural dye ion black walnut fruits that's retty strong, I'm lucky I didn't mess up my floor) and then tried to cure them as much as possible before shelling them. Maybe next time I'll cure them in the oven because I still needed to use a hammer to crack them open! Those walnuts had some very thick shells, my nutcracker was nigh useless. Anyway I got *some* meat, not a huge amount--but oh my Lord, their odor is PUNGENT. They smell like feet, I kid you not. They don't taste bad but the odor is unbearable, I'm gagging just thinking about it. I'm trying to figure out what I can do to strip the smell because I want to do this again--I think it's really cool I can make something with the fruit from my Dad's tree. Maybe cure or bake the cuts?
So proud of myself--with part of the tax refund I made an extra mortgage payment. At this rate (I pay a little more than 10% extra every month as well), I will pay it off ten years early!
For some reason Verizon decided to give me HBO free for four months--have NO IDEA why but I'll take it. They're running mini-marathons of Game of Thrones to catch us up for the next season, which starts next Sunday. I'm still mulling over whether I want to keep watching--it is an amazing show, I just don't want to see more pregnant women getting stabbed and bad people rewarded, over and over. I mean, WTF, showing what they did to Robb's BODY? And poor Grey Wind? DO NOT WANT. Whatever tesse's big reveal is (trying to cheer me up last June after I was in complete shock, she said something Very important is about to happen). It had better happen in the first episode if they want to keep me as viewer, is all I can say!
It is a great show, even if I'm bored stiff by everything north of the wall. Seriously, zombies are just dull.
Last Thanksgiving when I was up at my parents' place in New Hampshire, I gathered some black walnut fruits from their giant tree in their front yard. Packed them into a plastic bag, brought them home and tossed them into the freezer. Last week I decided to process them so I defrosted them, pulled off the husks (getting my hands very stained--there's a natural dye ion black walnut fruits that's retty strong, I'm lucky I didn't mess up my floor) and then tried to cure them as much as possible before shelling them. Maybe next time I'll cure them in the oven because I still needed to use a hammer to crack them open! Those walnuts had some very thick shells, my nutcracker was nigh useless. Anyway I got *some* meat, not a huge amount--but oh my Lord, their odor is PUNGENT. They smell like feet, I kid you not. They don't taste bad but the odor is unbearable, I'm gagging just thinking about it. I'm trying to figure out what I can do to strip the smell because I want to do this again--I think it's really cool I can make something with the fruit from my Dad's tree. Maybe cure or bake the cuts?
So proud of myself--with part of the tax refund I made an extra mortgage payment. At this rate (I pay a little more than 10% extra every month as well), I will pay it off ten years early!
