ablackram

12:58 pm

well this is a bummer...Geocities from Yahoo is closing October of this year.  So much for a quick webpage.  Sigh. Means I have to go thru my Lunarpages instead.  Bother.

11:19 am

a Hudson sprayer is worth 10,000 times more than the free one that comes with Roundup regardless of how cool it looks.  As I went for a second time in a month over the spots I Roundup'd which grew back like a fiend.

Pants update.. Second side on other half of topstitching.  Took time out for cleaning the barn, weeding and going to Art in the Park.  Sigh, the cajun food guys weren't there.  We were depressed

03:20 pm

For florentinescot  and everyone else who wanted to know but haven't asked yet.  Thinking of doing this over a square necked workstyle dress.
http://pics.livejournal.com/ablackram/gallery/0000bz3b

The painting is by CAMPI, Vincenzo
Kitchen
1580s
Oil on canvas
Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
found at WGU.hu http://www.wga.hu/art/c/campi/vincenzo/2kitchen.jpg
(there is more by this painter there, just only posted the one)


but wait, theres more
untucked version and half hanging on the girl
BEUCKELAER, Joachim
The Well-Stocked Kitchen
1566
Oil on panel, 171 x 250 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
http://www.wga.hu/art/b/beuckela/kitchen.jpg

tucked in version
BEUCKELAER, Joachim
The Vegetable Market
1567
Oil on panel 149 x 215 cm
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
http://www.wga.hu/art/b/beuckela/v_market.jpg

BEUCKELAER, Joachim
Kitchen Interior
1566
Oil on wood, 109 x 139 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
http://www.wga.hu/art/b/beuckela/kitchen1.jpg

BEUCKELAER, Joachim
The Four Elements: Fire
1570
Oil on canvas, 158 x 216 cm
National Gallery, London

http://www.wga.hu/art/b/beuckela/element2.jpgAERTSEN, Pieter
Peasants by the Hearth
1560s
Oil on wood, 142,3 x 198 cm
Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp
http://www.wga.hu/art/a/aertsen/merry_co.jpg
(the ones in the background may not be peasantish)

AERTSEN, Pieter
Cook in front of the Stove
1559
Oil on wood, 172,5 x 82 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
http://www.wga.hu/art/a/aertsen/cook.jpg

07:04 pm

Ok, funniest thing I heard this weekend

Blackram...it's not fair.....you have a major car company make a car for you (a Black Ram truck from Dodge), where am I going to find a Zygmunt???

Zyg I am still giggling. :)

05:47 pm - squeee finally got the Pagemason to work - primo!

http://www.insaneaboutgarb.com/

hot darn I'm back in business. Kewl thing is that I can make and upload from any computer....now to figure how to get different page looks now that the main page will copy from page to page.

Coffee cup not so easy to use. Really needs a PAPER handbook to know what you are doing. Downloading little video clips not so helpful when your computer is being s l o w.

09:19 am

Perhaps some help for those who need to refinance/get out of an ARM and their bank not wanting to help....Call your congressman!

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01:30 pm

Day off...sorta. Not working for pay, but running around looking for this and that.

Looked for - Off Clip - sista Pammy said Meijers in da hood. Yup they had 20, but I had three other areas that I checked beforehand. Buy one get one free coupon from SCJohnsons website made the trip sweeter (thanks Femke)

Looked for - neckband of fly repellant stuff for the donkeys. Tried the newly reopened Millbrook. They only had leg bands. Eh worth a shot. Also picked Mugsy up a new fly mask.

Looked for - cream dupioni. Brain said....old Target plaza.....nope.... Old Burlington Coat factory. But I did find 4 shades of white to cream and picked out a nice winter white. So that and the silk chiffon from Dharma that left today will make a spiff dress and not 1400$ worth. (well maybe after the hand beading) (and Collette, the Magenta shot silk is very slubby otherwise you would see that in a saia for Val Day...just warnin you)

Looked for - the new Ball canner.....Gemmens the premier canning mecca around here doesn't have them yet but are due in 2 weeks. I am on a list to get called. And what is special about it....the new canner is stainless steel. No more rusting when the porcelain chips! Sweet!

And dropped off the pans from the Period Cooking day to Chad and Lauries as well as Chads portable hard drive and loads of cords.

All in all, pretty productive. Now waiting for the beer to filter thru the paper towel cause it really has a lot of sediment and cocoa butter floating on top. Both of the attempts at a choc chip cookie beer are good. One is milder in flavor and the other one is a good hearty stout. Choc chip cookie taste....nope. bugger.

After that we test drive cars and go to Festival for dinner!

Current Mood: accomplished

04:37 pm - What Movie Is Your Love Life Like?

Your Love Life is Like The Princess Bride

"Since the invention of the kiss, there have only been five kisses that were rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one left them all behind." For you, love is like a fairy tale - albeit a fairly twisted one. You believe romance is all about loyalty, fate, and a good big of goofy fun. Your love style: Idealistic yet quirky Your Hollywood Ending Will Be: Perfectly romantic

06:06 pm

squeee computer back, but I have a lot to reload. I mean Milo did a lot by nuking it from orbit and it really works much better now. Just have to put the current stuff on that I'm working with. Good thing we loaded the VZ Navigator onto a flash drive for Collette as it is the only thing from keeping me from tearing apart old computer with a screwdriver to get the CD out.

Will post more when I have a chance and a brain.

08:20 am

So since the honey caught a salmon when he was out with his brothers on the lake, he grilled one fillet flesh side down (to burn off the fat) and smoked the other half for 2 hours at 200F.

The grilled salmon we had last night. mmmmmmmmmmmmm with some fresh asparagus. mmmmmmmmmmm

the smoked one we will have some of tonight with some cheese, crackers and a bottle of wine. :) First tasting after cooling from the smoker leads me to believe that this will be a good recipe!

At work. Since its either here that I can post or from my phone. Little laptop not behaving and big laptop still with Milo. Had to be nuked from orbit. (^)^)^^*%$&^*_& viruses.

09:07 am

Went to go see Angels and Demons yesterday because it came on the MOPIX. Other than being great eye candy of ROME, it was just a story. Honey said it had changed a bit from the book to make it more plausible, but had great effects, didn't challenge my brain too much and moved along in its over 2 hr window.

Glad the Vatican did not allow them to shoot their movie on Vatican soil. It belonged being shot in a movie set. I did however like that they were allowed to get good background footage and have the actors move around the green screen. Sorry Ronnie boy but you are getting enough cash from the ticket sales to pay for your movie sets without using the Holy See.

All in all, was worth paying matinee prices to see, and glad they brought it on MOPIX. When it comes to DVD will probably buy it has good building shots of Rome and will be a great shot in the arm for tourism to Italy.

12:21 pm

 Some sneaky peep took her birthday notification off of LJ.  Ha, but I remembered anyway

Happy Birthday femkederoas 

And a belated birthday baron_odo 

sorry I'm late, computer still flipping out

08:12 pm

the head banging continues.  Instead of Conficker I have the lovely 2 trojans called Virtumonde and Right Media.  Right Media apparently came in from viewing a page that had an ad on it that just popped into my computer without clicking on it.

Whoever came up with either one I hope you die and go to hell.  (I'm serious) BUT really GET A REAL JOB!

Current Mood: angry

10:12 pm

So Project Runway is finally back on the docket for viewing.  Aug 20.  Don't know if I want to watch now.  I feel for the contestants, but really, with this delay I feel it has jumped the shark.

11:42 am

Oh and the sea silk scarf is finally done!  54 inches long is the final length.  Whoo!  Figured it would be spring before I finished it, and it is. :)  Panel 1 of the honeys shirt is hemmed, panel 2 is half hemmed and extracted a large amt of blood yesterday in the car.  At least 2 1.5cm blotches.  Bugger.

12:20 pm

and on the note of handsewing again....Fabric-store.com has some 2.8 oz linen bleached for 7$/yd  Picked up 10 yard this am. 4+ promised out already to MSibohan for her summer Viking. :)

12:51 pm

http://www.mlive.com/whitecaps/index.ssf/2009/04/dave_raczkowski_the_grand.html
awright I won't attempt to eat all of it, but damn what kewl publicity.  A positive spin on the news, even if it were to result in more admissions thru the ER downstairs. :)

05:59 pm

so noodling on the prospect of chocolate chip cookie beer for BW for Garth.  He wants to change the rice krispie treat challenge into a chocolate chip cookie challenge.  Including if someone (he looked at me) can come up with a chocolate chip cookie beer.

The guys at Sicilianos say it should be easier than their recent challenge...putting asparagus in beer.  Ok, thats nasty.  I guess, if you used white asparagus, steamed it for a minute, added some lemon juice (maybe) and put it in the secondary fermenter for ....a week?  A day?  Still....eeeeuuuhh

04:06 pm - Just noodling

Anyone got a good source for good table linen weight linen?  I want the long fiber stuff and as fine as can be.  Got a itch in my brain and I have to embroider it out.  Along with learning to forge silverware and throw and paint pottery.

Won't be for this next years A&S but 2011 heck yeah.

Current Mood: creative

06:49 pm

So last year I was bailing out the garden area and seeing the paddocks go under water.  Couldn't go out in the garden area without going to the top of my wellies and trying to pull them off.  This year after the neighbor to the northwest built the drainage and cleaned up the way to the stream the area is pretty well drained and I might not have to do drastic measures and dig a deep pond and put drainage tubes under the garden.  My neighbors 3 miles away in Marne are mostly underwater.  Some yards are 2 feet under water....still.  Course if it had not frozen it would be draining there.

WHoo hoo go drainage ditch!  Key will be the next few months as the ground thaws on how good/bad we are.