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Uhm, wait, maybe that's in my notes from college

I made Joe fried mashed potatoes as his starch for dinner (along with cauliflower, eggs, and bacon, if the Division of Children and Family Services must know). Two palm-sized patties, fried for about 10 minutes in butter that I'd softened garlic in. Because I was busy doing other stuff, I didn't worry them with the spatula and they crisped up properly, nice brown lacy patterns on flat smooth buttery faces.

I put them on his plate and walked back to the stove.

Joe: Hey, Dad, can you help me pick these up?
Dad: Uhm, don't you use a fork for those?
Joe: Why would I?

Winter Sightings

Old Tree
Originally uploaded by WhitA.

In the winter, you don't see living things so much as you see evidence. Which is its own thing.

Ink

• Google to Write an 'Integrated Story'?
  (tags: google web2.0 ink)

Good walk today

Dark as nighttime, but a fine golden-crowned kinglet working the bare limbs and finding a few insects here and there. The lichen was blooming (fruiting?) and a frog floated helplessly in the strong flow of the stream. New pics in the album.

Dead Pine Tree

  Dead Pine Tree 
  Originally uploaded by WhitA.

Today was a good walk at Wachusett Meadow. The day was as flat and gray as it gets. You never know what you'll see, though, and my extra present for today was a goshawk, the very first I've ever been sure of seeing, silent and flashing across a road with a few songbirds half-heartedly worrying it from behind.

I walked two lobes of trails at the park -- down through the pastures to Fire Pond on one side, and out to Otter Pond on the other. The beavers are back at otter pond, as an improved view from the bench demonstrates quite unequivocally. (There are fewer trees but more beaver stumps.)

I am thankful for the gift of the day.

Dailies

• PostSecret
  Good one this week, and last week.
  (tags: postsecret christmasdinner holidays)
• NPR : Meredith Ochs: Top Ten CDs of 2006
  (tags: listen)

links for 2006-12-24

• my friend ahmet ertegun died last week. | moby.com
  IN general, I think, music's friend.
  (tags: ahmetertegun moby)

Nice crop

IMG_4431
Originally uploaded by ynatis.

Good crop on this one from Yefim.

Maybe not at the SAME time

Joe and I were listening to the White Stripes. Joe said of Jack White, "Listen to that voice! What did he do? Did he get his tongue caught in a trumpet, his fingers caught in rope, and his mouth full of water -- AT THE SAME TIME?"