In case anyone is wondering what we’d like for the “Winter Holidays,” here’s a little list of things we could use. Our wedding registries should have some stuff left over. We also each have Amazon wishlists. For both ofus: The Stone Edition of the Tanach A Saladmaster Food Processor–there are several available on E-Bay A bread knife A pastry cutter (with blades, not wires…here’s a good example) Cooling racks A bottom pouring fat separator–you know, one like this (Berck has been using a plastic bottle with a hole punched in the bottom.) We could also use a generic 12 inch…
Berck was dismayed to find that my family doesn’t serve mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving. Instead we have sauerkraut. Yum! We had two turkeys–Nathan spent all day smoking them. Berck had asked if he could make his mom’s famous refigerator rolls, but somehow all the necessary ingredients showed up except yeast. Dad and my Uncle Dave went into town to see if anything was open and returned triumphant. “I hope we got the right kind,” Dad said. Berck was pleased; they had brought back Active Dry instead of Rapid Rise, like I always seem to do. “They had two kinds,” Dad…
We ate take-away from Happy Garden last night. Jonah just consumed a cookie with the following fortune. We sure hope so!
Berck drove me to work on Wednesday morning of last week so that he could pick me up and go straight to the airport when I got off. I had just finished doing inventory second counts when Laura, the inventory dictatress, paged me to come to her office. She summons me whenever I screw up anything, no matter how seemingly insignificant. I’ve entertained the thought that she might personally hate me. So I hurried over to the send-out office wondering, Great, what have I done now? “Joanna, your husband is by the front desk…something about needing your house keys.” I…