Are you using the same variety/ies of apples? If so, are they grown in the same conditions?
– I got the storm windows on. So, of course, the weather has warmed up; though I’ll grant that it hasn’t really warmed up enough to want to open the windows.
Pretty sure she just used grocery store Granny Smith apples. I think the secret was her crust. She made it from scratch and it was just perfect.
My brother Tim is on his way. Dutch Apple Pie is his favorite. I like to add maple syrup, or a liqueur to the top just before serving. Only a tiny bit, but yummy.
TIL … if you have twin infants they can cry in stereo. Quite the experience.
Of course when they’re both smiling & cooing that’s way more than double-adorable, so I guess it evens out. Squee!
How long can this thread spend on one topic before someone reports it for going off-topic?
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Anybody use this service or know of anyone who has?
We waited as long as we could, but eventually the ice cream started to melt, and we were forced to eat without him.
He also missed out on a nice dessert wine. I had a guest who until recently lived in Italy, and she and her husband brought two bottles of wine - one for dinner, and one for dessert. I’m not usually that fancy at home, but it was a very nice pairing.
This is the world’s oldest complete song. I absolutely love it, and it blows my mind that a song 2200 years old can still be beautiful to modern ears!
VERY nice! Thanks for sharing.
Fascinating. It sounds quite Renaissance to my amateur’s ears. I like it.
Yeah, that was pretty righteous. I got a couple of glasses of wine in me and listened while I fed the pasture pets. I think Kate Bush could make a hit out of it.
Definitely fascinating. I didn’t know that musical notation existed that long ago.
Thanks for information, and in such a pleasing form!
How would we ever know it was a song and what it sounded like? Surely there was no sheet music.
I googled that. There’s the equivalent of sheet music, engraved on a stone, along with the lyrics (now missing a line, due to somebody’s reckless idiocy).
Continuing in a musical vein, I got the new Super Deluxe Edition of The Monkees’ Headquarters album today. The remix sounds absolutely fantastic, like it could’ve been recorded yesterday.
Hijacking because it got all the way up to 54 beautiful degrees today and there is no more snow on the ground. Yay! Of course, we can see December from here, but seizing the day!
Since this has been sinking, I thought I would do a total hijack.
I read about this creature in a book about dragon myths.
A little while later, I read about an animal fossil found in South America that would have looked almost the same. Sadly, i lost the link to that
In my mind, I want to think that some seafaring culture manged to make it to S. America and back, and picked one of these up. It escaped when they got back to Europe, and the story of how it was seen and killed is told to this day
As recently as 1614, there were dragons active in my home county of Sussex.
Now, regarding The Lily Beds, one of the more absurd lockdown activities we did was a walk to find The Lily Beds, based only on the fact that their location is given on an Ordnance Survey map (and in complete ignorance of the origin of the name, as detailed above). Imagine our astonishment, when all we found was a steep slope, unlikely to accommodate the ponds full of lilies that we were expecting. Hence my (subsequently) researching their origins.
And anyways, I like to think of dragons as critically endangered rather than extinct.
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