The Shortest Day
21/06/2005 11:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIzzie slinks in from a spot of moon watching. Been a busy serpent today. At this moment Privet Drive is engulfed in the aroma of freshly baked bread barely out of the oven. Most delicious with a glass or two of red, brie cheese sprinkled with zaatar and a very fat juicy moon.
Did this for the last full moon and might just make a habit of our little moon bread ritual. Funny thing – apart from measuring 500ml or so of water and the teaspoon or two of yeast to match, the rest is pure guess work. We toss in whatever is around which usually includes olive oil and sesame seeds. Today – decided to use up the rest of our rye flour. Silly really rye with pesto rather than the usual caraway seeds.
Our enjoyment was enhanced by having 3 days off until Saturday and the big day – today and tomorrow is crisp and crunchy and very sunny. Izzie loves really cold winter nights as long as it's clear skies, lots of stars and no rain.
Finished work at 1.30pm today and resisted the tempation to go snoozies. It's a gorgeous sunny day, you have all tonight when it's dark after 6pm to do that plus Thursday which is supposed to be raining all day. So instead, we scrubbed our scales and sat out in the garden toasting to the golden ball of sunshine around 2.40 or so as that was supposed to be the official time where the sun reaches its most southerly point. Not sure how they work all these things out but since when does Izzie need an excuse to party?
And anyway – there's a sunset to be seen (it hid behind the clouds but it's the thought that counts)
After many months, decided that today was just perfect for visiting the zoo. Not too far from home, lovely weather and there's lots and lots of new babies. The latest is an orangutang, a most gorgeous Gollumish Hamydras baboon – all pink and fluffy with big Dobby ears, a face to die for and a very pink little body covered in black hair, a baby Rhino and a pregnant cheetah.
There's been some shuffling of the deckchairs in the reptile house where the turtle babies have gotten very big since we last seen them, the death adder finally got her lease renewed after being evicted for a while and there is a new addition to the happy family. Baby blue tongued skinks and the most spectacularly gorgeous glow in the dark green Fiji Iguana.
Izzie gets a Friends of the Zoo card every year which costs just over 55 silver sickles or so and entitles us to free entry for 12 months. Since normal entry is $$16 or half price on Wednesdays, it does not take too many visits to pay for itself but bestest of all – you don't get that horrid compulsion to 'do the zoo' and see 500 animals in 20 minutes.
Izzie often only visits one area – such as the reptile or nocturnal house, Australian bushwalk, wetlands or African Savannah and stays for about two – three hours.
Was originally going to visit on Monday enroute to work – the bus that goes to the zoo goes directly to the Izzie day job. But we had a book due back at the library and decided to go today instead since the zoo is a better place for moonwatching or seeing sunsets than dreary downtown Dursleyville.
Tomorrow it's off to our favorite lunatic asylum with a copy of “Order of the Phoenix” and a nice moonshine picnic. Izzie hardly needs an excuse to read it again – but this is the last chance to look for clues before we get to see everything in 20/20 hindsight
Will save the latest tasty gossip concerning Dolores and the elf rebellion for another day. Suffice to say that in just the last week, 3 rats are abandoning the sinking ship. Dolores is just too damned arrogant and up herself to read the signs. Soon she will realise that telling the elves 'Do it my way or hit the highway” is no longer a threat but an invitation. Once folks are so pissed off that they start resigning – she has lost her one and only weapon.
But will save her sneering snarkiness for another post. But if she refuses to understand that there's just an itsy bitsy possibility that you will upset some one if you slash their take home pay by 15 hours a fortnight, then she's got a lot of learning to do.
Did this for the last full moon and might just make a habit of our little moon bread ritual. Funny thing – apart from measuring 500ml or so of water and the teaspoon or two of yeast to match, the rest is pure guess work. We toss in whatever is around which usually includes olive oil and sesame seeds. Today – decided to use up the rest of our rye flour. Silly really rye with pesto rather than the usual caraway seeds.
Our enjoyment was enhanced by having 3 days off until Saturday and the big day – today and tomorrow is crisp and crunchy and very sunny. Izzie loves really cold winter nights as long as it's clear skies, lots of stars and no rain.
Finished work at 1.30pm today and resisted the tempation to go snoozies. It's a gorgeous sunny day, you have all tonight when it's dark after 6pm to do that plus Thursday which is supposed to be raining all day. So instead, we scrubbed our scales and sat out in the garden toasting to the golden ball of sunshine around 2.40 or so as that was supposed to be the official time where the sun reaches its most southerly point. Not sure how they work all these things out but since when does Izzie need an excuse to party?
And anyway – there's a sunset to be seen (it hid behind the clouds but it's the thought that counts)
After many months, decided that today was just perfect for visiting the zoo. Not too far from home, lovely weather and there's lots and lots of new babies. The latest is an orangutang, a most gorgeous Gollumish Hamydras baboon – all pink and fluffy with big Dobby ears, a face to die for and a very pink little body covered in black hair, a baby Rhino and a pregnant cheetah.
There's been some shuffling of the deckchairs in the reptile house where the turtle babies have gotten very big since we last seen them, the death adder finally got her lease renewed after being evicted for a while and there is a new addition to the happy family. Baby blue tongued skinks and the most spectacularly gorgeous glow in the dark green Fiji Iguana.
Izzie gets a Friends of the Zoo card every year which costs just over 55 silver sickles or so and entitles us to free entry for 12 months. Since normal entry is $$16 or half price on Wednesdays, it does not take too many visits to pay for itself but bestest of all – you don't get that horrid compulsion to 'do the zoo' and see 500 animals in 20 minutes.
Izzie often only visits one area – such as the reptile or nocturnal house, Australian bushwalk, wetlands or African Savannah and stays for about two – three hours.
Was originally going to visit on Monday enroute to work – the bus that goes to the zoo goes directly to the Izzie day job. But we had a book due back at the library and decided to go today instead since the zoo is a better place for moonwatching or seeing sunsets than dreary downtown Dursleyville.
Tomorrow it's off to our favorite lunatic asylum with a copy of “Order of the Phoenix” and a nice moonshine picnic. Izzie hardly needs an excuse to read it again – but this is the last chance to look for clues before we get to see everything in 20/20 hindsight
Will save the latest tasty gossip concerning Dolores and the elf rebellion for another day. Suffice to say that in just the last week, 3 rats are abandoning the sinking ship. Dolores is just too damned arrogant and up herself to read the signs. Soon she will realise that telling the elves 'Do it my way or hit the highway” is no longer a threat but an invitation. Once folks are so pissed off that they start resigning – she has lost her one and only weapon.
But will save her sneering snarkiness for another post. But if she refuses to understand that there's just an itsy bitsy possibility that you will upset some one if you slash their take home pay by 15 hours a fortnight, then she's got a lot of learning to do.
