I saw Return of the King yesterday with some friends yesterday and loved it. Usually I hate seeing a film made from a book I love, and I have loved the LotR books since I was twelve. I think Scalzi’s essay on Why The Film is Better than the Book addresses this question better than anything else I have seen.
I may even go see it again with Jack. This is quite an accomplishment for a film since I rarely see more than one or two in an entire year.
The rubber stamp club to which I belong met at Biaggi’s last night. In addition to great food (I had the risotto special) and fellowship, we had a handcrafted ornament exchange. Here they are.
The ornament in the very back was made using a toddler’s shoe. Someone else made an ice cream cone using a real cone. Altogether, I was impressed by the offerings.
Unfortunately, I didn’t participate because I couldn’t come up with any ideas that I liked. I made several starts, but they didn’t work out.
Craft recipes to make your own – stamp pads, art paper, envelopes, glue, rubber stamp cleaner, embossing powder, embossing fluid, wax seals, and more.
This morning, yet another fabulous sunrise.
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.
Due to chinook wind conditions, we had a spectacularly beautiful sunrise two mornings ago.
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.
Jack was joking when he suggested we just use the top of the tree yesterday. Here is the decorated tree.
Jack: “Want to try a minimalist tree this year?”
Thurday night, Jack and I attended the meeting of the “Pikes Peak Linux Users Group”:http://www.pplug.org/ and listened to a presentation from someone who makes her living compiling kernels to test software drivers about how to build the Linux kernel. The instructions seemed pretty close to these from LinuxPlanet – Tutorials – How to Compile the Linux Kernel.