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Post-pre-holiday thoughts
Not a lot of solstice happenings around here, though I am as always quite happy that the days are getting longer again. There was talk of building some sort of solar clock/calendar sort of thing on the promontory behind the barn.
We spent most of the weekend doing last-minute gift planning and shopping -- often, by necessity, completely changing the plan because things were unavailable.
Shopping tip: When looking to buy home audio/video equipment, it's fine to go to Best Buy to look -- they're quite good at leaving you alone to look -- but don't bother trying to buy from them because they'll continue to ignore you. Go down the street to H.H. Gregg, where they apparently work on commission and are quite eager to help, at least if you're not looking at the deep-deep-discount shelves at the time. (This is all assuming that a locally-owned store is not around, though they usually can't compete on price.)
Christmas music drives me crazy, but I was usually able to ignore it. The positive exception was when I heard "Greensleeves" played surf-guitar style; later, wondering who that might have been, I learned that "Greensleeves" seems to be a surf-guitar standard, done by lots of people in the genre.
Monday I made brownies (this time with chocolate chips on top too) that turned out a little too dry, and cookies both chocolate-chip and butterscotch-chip (using the classic "Toll House" recipe). At one point I considered making pizzelles, but ran out of time and energy (as well as coming close to running out of eggs). I still want to look into trying some vegan cookie/brownie recipes sometime.
Toward the end of my baking,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
duriyah came home and pointed out the big orangy moon coming up. We even managed to go out and see it without any cats messing with the cookies.
We spent most of the weekend doing last-minute gift planning and shopping -- often, by necessity, completely changing the plan because things were unavailable.
Shopping tip: When looking to buy home audio/video equipment, it's fine to go to Best Buy to look -- they're quite good at leaving you alone to look -- but don't bother trying to buy from them because they'll continue to ignore you. Go down the street to H.H. Gregg, where they apparently work on commission and are quite eager to help, at least if you're not looking at the deep-deep-discount shelves at the time. (This is all assuming that a locally-owned store is not around, though they usually can't compete on price.)
Christmas music drives me crazy, but I was usually able to ignore it. The positive exception was when I heard "Greensleeves" played surf-guitar style; later, wondering who that might have been, I learned that "Greensleeves" seems to be a surf-guitar standard, done by lots of people in the genre.
Monday I made brownies (this time with chocolate chips on top too) that turned out a little too dry, and cookies both chocolate-chip and butterscotch-chip (using the classic "Toll House" recipe). At one point I considered making pizzelles, but ran out of time and energy (as well as coming close to running out of eggs). I still want to look into trying some vegan cookie/brownie recipes sometime.
Toward the end of my baking,
duriyah came home and pointed out the big orangy moon coming up. We even managed to go out and see it without any cats messing with the cookies.