Thin Slices of Joy
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Letting the days go by
Same as it ever was 🎶
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Remain in Light = best Talking Heads
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Prior to COVID, David Byrne's Broadway Show American Utopia was supposed to return in the fall. He & his cast did a spirited performance of Once in a Lifetime Once on the Feb 29th Saturday Night Live. Yep, same as it ever was.
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Both of you have excellent taste!
I loved that SNL episode with David Byrne hosted by John Mulaney. They will probably play it again this summer. Byrne even participated in a skit.
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Ahh happy memories: David Byrne at Brixton Academy in South London (1997 I think it was). There was a power cut in the middle of his set. There was a long silence. My husband yelled “Hello David are you alright”. The lights came back on. That was a long time ago
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Great memory! My last indoor concert was in 1995 to see R.E.M. I remember because I was pregnant with my first child. They were also my first concert in 1986 before they got huge. The band actually hung out back with fans after the concert. My roommate was in a group with a long-haired Michael Stipe. I was in a group with Mike Mills and his grandparents. That was the same year I saw the Red Hot Chili Peppers for $5. Good times!
My rash is finally gone! I've been making sourdough crackers with the discard. Got a fresh batch cooling now. They taste like herby cheez-its. Next up: sourdough focaccia with garlic flowers and Italian seasoning.
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Success!
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OMG it looks amazing. I really will get around to making sourdough one of these days...
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Gorgeous bread!
Took a beautiful hike this morning with my dear friend (we go weekly, both masked and 10' or so apart.) She is an incredible friend-- also an exercise friend - we play tennis or hike when we meet up. All during my treatment she'd show up to hike... we'd go VERY slowly, with 1000 rest stops. And we'd hike.
That's a thin slice of joy when someone loves you enough to show up and take a dorky non-exercise ultra slow hike every week while you have chemo and recover from chemo. I had two friends who did this for me and I will never forget it.
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santabarbarian - Those are good friends!
Playing live now!
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Yo Yo Ma played for 2.5 hours live on YT. Unfortunately, the video is now private.
Here's a beautiful quarantine cover by Norah Jones. From the background in the video, you wouldn't know she's a Grammy-winning artist. I love it!
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Next I am trying a bread recipe my French friend Guy gave me. I had some of his bread and it is excellent. It's 3 c white flour, 1/4 tsp yeast, 1 1/4 tsp salt, 1/3 C water... mix and give an 18 hour first rise (at room temp out of sunlight, under saran wrap), then a brief flour dusting and fold, and another two hour rise folded in a floured cloth. Cook at 475 in hot cast iron Dutch oven-- bake w/ lid on 30 mins, lid off 15 more at till brown.
It was wonderfully chewy and sour so I am going to give it a go.
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I love simple recipes like that!
I'm trying to find the simplest sourdough recipes. Think I need to continue minimizing gluten. I no longer have a cast iron Dutch oven. We donated it years ago. Instead I use a pizza stone and a broiler pan with water for steam.
The focaccia recipe I used called for a 9 x 13 metal pan. I have a glass pan in that size, but I used a 12" square metal pan to avoid sticking. It worked.
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Serenity, thanks for the Norah Jones!! Love her & Hank Williams, Sr!
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Same here! Plus I love that song. Cowboy Junkies has a great version.
Today we had the hottest day ever in May. We had snow 3 weeks ago! Very glad to have central air.
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My tomato plants have their first flowers opentoday. I’m ridiculously excited.
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so I made my friends bread -- baking now-- and it seems great but I think the recipe shorted the water. I added more than it said to as the dough did not look right. 300g water... he'd put 1/3 C but I think it's actually 1+ 1/3 C. Anyway now a great bread-smell is filling the house and taunting the neighbors....
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ScotBird - It is exciting! My husband bought a tomato plant that already had a few flowers (short summer requires a head start). I was excited when I saw a cluster of 5 little tomatoes growing. I'm not a big gardener. Just have a tomato plant and a few herbs in containers.
santabarbarian - I love the smell of bread baking. Hope it turned out great! I prefer measuring by weight. I find it easier plus it keeps me from losing count.
It's raining gently. Love the sound. And it ends the heat wave.
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Guess the whale thought with few tourists around, now would be a perfect time to visit the Old Port. Hope he gets to open water soon. But thanks for coming!
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South Pacific was one of the first musicals I saw on TV when young and learning to love them. This song resonated with me as I first noticed racism. Same as it ever was.
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I was Bloody Mary in my High School Production!
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Nice! I did costumes and set design in high school. Worked on Alice in Wonderland and Up the Down Staircase.
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My older daughter officially graduated with her Master’s today. There’s a virtual ceremony next week, but she prefers to wait for an in-person ceremony with her friends. Not sure when that will happen.
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Congratulations to your daughter!! Way to go!
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We are so proud of her! The bright spot of being locked down is that she's still at home. I already missed her because she spent a lot of time downtown. We hardly saw her. Then the lockdown came. Many of her friends suddenly moved out of Montreal to be with their parents. It helps that the 4 of us get along. Both my husband and I would never have stayed with our parents.
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Gorgeous day out. It was extremely windy yesterday. There were some power outages, but all we lost was a branch off the main stem of my sole tomato plant (indigo kumquat). I saved the almost-ripe cluster on it. While trying to stake the plant as it was being blown over, I decided that I could never be a farmer. My family would starve.
Still I'm determined to fight against my black thumb and rescue my neglected plants. I have killed hard-to-kill plants, so it's a big challenge. It's a nice distraction from everything.
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