Well. Here it is, two of the afternoon, and it has been a very busy day at the Murphy-Lee-Sandness househould. Ted’s been cooking since about 8:30 this morning; rolls and stuffing and casseroles and turkey and probably some other things I can’t think of right now. Shaun and I have been cleaning house, assisted by Ted when he wasn’t cooking. The living room has been rearranged. The laundry has been done. Soon, we go to the store to pick up some red juice and more milk and some flowers, and…
pie crust
Merlin asked me for my pie crust recipe, and since I was typing it out anyway, I thought I’d post it here. :) This is a recipe for a 9″ double-crust pie. 2 c flour 1 tsp salt 1/2 to 2/3 c shortening 6 tbsp ice water Sift the flour, then measure. Add salt & stir in mixing bowl. Add shortening (use the smaller amount if using lard, use the larger amount if using vegetable shortening like Crisco). Cut with fork or fingers (fingers work better) into flour mixture until…
man.
Being sick is just no fun. Ted and I went out to get stuff for Turkey Day tomorrow, and when I came home I had to take a two hour nap because I was so exhausted. That wasn’t exactly what I’d planned to do. Of course, now I’ve been up again for a couple of hours and I still haven’t done the things that I planned to do, so maybe I should go do some of those. Like, make a pecan pie! And then a pumpkin pie! If anybody wants…
cool!
Need a new d20? Or more to the point, an old one?
complete disaster.
THUNDERBIRD FALLS is a complete disaster. I’m 40K into it and I haven’t managed to successfully set up the main conflict. I have to go back and do a huge chunk of rewrites before I can go forward, because it’s just that bad. Man. And last night I was just telling Dad how I’d seemed to have gotten past the “write a completely disasterous rough draft” stage as a writer. Hah.