Roast Chicken

I made roast chicken last night. I don’t make this nearly often enough considering how much I like it and how easy it is. My recipe is simplicity itself: take out the inner bits of a whole chicken and put them down the disposal, rinse chicken with water, stuff which a peeled and quartered onion, put on the jelly roll pan, and bake in the oven for 350 degrees according to the poultry chart in my Good Housekeeping cookbook. A four pound chicken takes 1.5 to 1.75 hours to cook.

The onion keeps the chicken breast, my favorite part, from drying out. Jack and I are a good fit: he likes the dark meat and I like the white meat.

Snow

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I knew we had a chance of snow today, but didn’t expect to wake-up to near blizzard conditions. This photo was taken through the screened window of my office.

Tree

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Jack was joking when he suggested we just use the top of the tree yesterday. Here is the decorated tree.

Green Flash

Sacred Ordinary writes about seeing the Green Flash. I’ve never been near the ocean enough to have much chance to see it, so I am very envious. I did see an “icebow”:http://www.bluetail.com/~joe/misc/icebow.html one morning, though.