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Look, a Finished Object! It's been a long time since we're seen one of those. This is the Cascading Fuschias Market Bag by Noni. I've knit the medium size in Cascade 220, Color 9446. The flowers are knit in Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride in Aubergine, Spice and Blue Blood Red. Yay.
Dear Lost,
Let me start be saying that I am your friend. I've been with you from the start. The first time I saw the polar bear, I was captivated. The first time I heard Rousseau's haunting distress call repeated over and over again, I was hooked. I swear, I am on your side. I really have/had incredibly high hopes for you not only as a show, but as a media experience.
However, with the latest episode, I must say, enough is enough. Just what do you think you're playing at? A Temple/Sanctuary? Really? You're going to throw a new location into the mix? What ever happened to the mystery of the polar bears or the black-mist-with-images-inside monster? Or how about Jacob? Hell, how about any of the other 58 locations previously mentioned? What was with the word "contaminated" we saw over and over? Or the fear of infection? Or the whispers? No. Instead of answers we've been given rather desolate flash forwards and often cryptic flash backwards. In the last episode, for a while I thought we were flashing frackwards and borwards. You know things have spun out of control when the "Previously On Lost" segment went back to the first season. "Previously" is right.
Look, all I'm saying is get it together, man! We (your collective audience) have hung in there too long for you to fall apart on us now.
Now man up, and answer some bloody questions.
xo
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ps - A little "Not Yet" flag that pops up when you attempt to activate a bomb? Really? I thought better of you. Suck it up, Lost. It's in the past, but let's not have any repeats of this. Even in a frackwards flash. No more.
Have I been neglecting the pastry side of things? My apologies. Hopefully this will make up for it.
Today we have a Triple Chocolate Bavarian Entrement. It has a chocolate chiffon sponge cake base with dark, milk and white chocolate Bavarian creams layered from the bottom up, topped with a cocoa gelee and white chocolate drizzle. I don't mean to brag, but not only am I in shock that it turned out so well, I honestly am 99% positive I could make it again and again. Huzzah!
Bon Appetit!
1. When Rita Skeeter prints a bad
articles about Hagrid in the Daily Prophet, which Professor teaches
Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class while he is away?
c. Professor Grubbly-Plank
2. What was the article Rita Skeeter wrote about Hagrid called?
c. Dumbledore's Giant Mistake
3. When the school champions were being chosen from the Goblet of Fire, whose name cam out first?
b. Viktor Krum
4. What is the spell Ludo bagman says to magically magnify his voice when he commentates?
a. Sonorus
5. What kind of dragon did Cedirc have to face in the first task?
b. A Swedish Short-Snout
6. Who raised the trophy after winning the world cup?
b. Troy and Quigley
7. How many bedrooms did Mundungus Fletcher claim to have?
d. 12
8. For what did Moody mistake his birthday gift of a carriage clock?
b. A basilisk egg
9. What did Mr. Ollivander produce for the end of Cedric's wand?
d. Silver smoke rings
10. The dark mark is on Snape's left arm.
a. Yes
Green things first. Remember when I said I had planted sticks in the mud in my vague attempt at gardening (which I insist on pursuing at least once a year)? Well, some sticks have sprouted! Here we have blackberries and raspberries, quite happy in their containers. No fruit yet, but there is plenty of time.
Next, you can just make out a strawberry plant peeking around the corner of the deck. This tiny guy is laden with green berries (and by laden, I mean about a pints worth). I am very excited.
And Yes, I did wait until it was pouring down rain to take pictures. I have impeccable timing. Why do you ask?
Now for something sweet. Easter is around the corner and we have family coming into town. This, or course, gives me the perfect excuse to order easter candy from Fowlers Chocolates. When I was little, we used to get candy from Fowlers every year for Easter. This is one of the many reasons why - Sponge candy:
There are no words. Just look. You can choose from dark, milk or orange chocolate which enrobes a core of brown sugar sponge. It has the consistency of florist foam, but in a good way, that melts against the roof of your mouth leaving behind the deliciously bittersweet taste of butterscotch. Bliss.....
