Important Note: strongly recommend parchment paper for this.
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| Just add a few Jolly Ranchers on the sheet... |
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| ...and they bake right into the frame! |
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Gingerbread house stained glass windows
This was insanely easy to do, I can't believe we didn't know about this before, and all future gingerbread houses will have stained glass windows. Next year, we'll swirl them a bit to make more interesting patterns.
Important Note: strongly recommend parchment paper for this.
Important Note: strongly recommend parchment paper for this.
Friday, November 25, 2016
Dragons or Lorelais
Tough choice. We were all set to start A Year in the Life tonight when Game of Thrones, Season 6, disk 1 arrived in the mail (we netflix everything late). So it's either the multigenerational conflict that promises death, drama, and fights to uphold a family's honor, or Peter Dinklage and CGI dragons.
(ed. note: this was originally posted to friends on FB in 2016, so I am backdating to that date. It was added to this blog in 2025)
Sunday, October 30, 2016
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Twitterfeed is dead. Long live...
dlvr.it?
In advance of the sad day when Twitterfeed shuts down, I'm testing out options. In addition to buffer.com and dlvr.it, it looks like IFTTT is a possibility. If this were a fair test and, I would try out all three services and compare and contrast, but I'm just looking for something that is quick and easy, so if this dlvr.it test works out, that's what I'll use.
One positive so far is that it looks like dlvr.it will pull posts from my blog and send to both twitter and facebook. The "post to FB" feature broke on twitterfeed a while ago, and I've just lived with it only sending to twitter (blogger already does its own automatic send to G+).
So here goes.
In advance of the sad day when Twitterfeed shuts down, I'm testing out options. In addition to buffer.com and dlvr.it, it looks like IFTTT is a possibility. If this were a fair test and, I would try out all three services and compare and contrast, but I'm just looking for something that is quick and easy, so if this dlvr.it test works out, that's what I'll use.
One positive so far is that it looks like dlvr.it will pull posts from my blog and send to both twitter and facebook. The "post to FB" feature broke on twitterfeed a while ago, and I've just lived with it only sending to twitter (blogger already does its own automatic send to G+).
So here goes.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
A Night in the Lonesome October
October has begun, along with our traditional month-long family bedtime reading of Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October, his last novel, and my favorite of his. The book is broken into a chapter for each day of the month, which makes it great for doing a chapter a night and following how the story progresses over the course of the month.
The characters in the book are all references to existing character in fiction and life, and while some are obvious, others are not. Christopher Kovacs has an illuminating essay on this topic, perfect for *after* you've read the book.
The characters in the book are all references to existing character in fiction and life, and while some are obvious, others are not. Christopher Kovacs has an illuminating essay on this topic, perfect for *after* you've read the book.
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