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Pumpkin Soup again. This time I tried it with 1 can pumpkin, 1 can chicken broth and about 1/2 cup of concentrated apple juice--the kind you buy frozen to mix with 2 cans of water to make apple juice. And pumpkin pie spices and cardamom.
Yum. A little too heavy on the apple juice, I think and a little too much cardamom, but tasty.
The Friday night performance at the Carson Newman dinner went pretty well. I didn't play all that well but I'm pretty sure no one could tell over the two guitars anyway. I wore my Very Best Dress and got many compliments on it. It did mean we had to sit through all the presentations after the dinner, but they were mostly okay. There's always one, though, that tries to suck all the joy out of the season and make you feel guilty for existing. The last time I went it was someone with a tearjerking little piece about not being invited to Christmas and looking through the window and seeing everyone loving each other and presents under the tree, and no love for you and no present for you--and it's your *birthday*...
And I'm like--the guy's in heaven, right? So he's as happy as it is possible to be, or heaven isn't working right, yes? And since he's in charge of heaven, if heaven isn't working right he can fix it, right? So why am I supposed to give up my enjoyment of this earthly celebration to feel all guilty and sorry for this guy?
This time it was some long prayer some guy got up and gave. I forgot most of it because I was thinking about something else. I recall there was some guilt trip in there but it didn't take enough for me to remember it. Which is fine.
Theoretical Mossy Creek Network Performance on Saturday. I located The Boar's Head Carol and The Keeper in Rise Up Singing, and made a copy of To Drive The Cold Winter Away and worked out the chords--only to find just before I was going to leave that Larry had cancelled today's practice. So when we're going to practice now I have no idea. If I don't hear from him tomorrow I will start poking him; it's not like we have a long time before Saturday.
We'll see.
No work on the roof today; it snowed a lot last night (for us--three inches, maybe) and was very cold today.
Yum. A little too heavy on the apple juice, I think and a little too much cardamom, but tasty.
The Friday night performance at the Carson Newman dinner went pretty well. I didn't play all that well but I'm pretty sure no one could tell over the two guitars anyway. I wore my Very Best Dress and got many compliments on it. It did mean we had to sit through all the presentations after the dinner, but they were mostly okay. There's always one, though, that tries to suck all the joy out of the season and make you feel guilty for existing. The last time I went it was someone with a tearjerking little piece about not being invited to Christmas and looking through the window and seeing everyone loving each other and presents under the tree, and no love for you and no present for you--and it's your *birthday*...
And I'm like--the guy's in heaven, right? So he's as happy as it is possible to be, or heaven isn't working right, yes? And since he's in charge of heaven, if heaven isn't working right he can fix it, right? So why am I supposed to give up my enjoyment of this earthly celebration to feel all guilty and sorry for this guy?
This time it was some long prayer some guy got up and gave. I forgot most of it because I was thinking about something else. I recall there was some guilt trip in there but it didn't take enough for me to remember it. Which is fine.
Theoretical Mossy Creek Network Performance on Saturday. I located The Boar's Head Carol and The Keeper in Rise Up Singing, and made a copy of To Drive The Cold Winter Away and worked out the chords--only to find just before I was going to leave that Larry had cancelled today's practice. So when we're going to practice now I have no idea. If I don't hear from him tomorrow I will start poking him; it's not like we have a long time before Saturday.
We'll see.
No work on the roof today; it snowed a lot last night (for us--three inches, maybe) and was very cold today.
