weather

I just started hearing the oddest sound - thought to myself, is that rain? No, doesn't sound right for rain. I went and looked out the kitchen windows. Well, what's hitting the kitchen windows looks like rain, but when I look carefully I can see the little ice crystals bouncing off the neighbor's roof. Well, it is 28 degrees out. It's not coming down very hard, fortunately. Hope this doesn't mess up driving too much. Ah, the weather program calls this "light mix". Lovely. Freezing drizzle this morning, light wintry mix this afternoon. Today and tomorrow's high will be 32. Chance of snow tonight 80%, low 18 degrees.

Sigh. I have places to GO this evening...

EDIT: Now the upstairs north nook window has a layer of ice on it. Great.

cooking

I am actually making french onion soup. It's in the crockpot now. Whee. I just made a recipe from ingredients I had in the house that were not bought with that as a plan. That's pretty rare. Okay, both the onions and the bouillon cubes were stuff my mother-in-law bought while she was here, but still.

I never really learned much cooking. I could probably still count on my hands, if I had a good enough memory, the times I've cooked something that started with cutting up onions. Kneading and baking bread, though, yes. And as the kids get a bit older, I might try to do that again sometime too.

Someday I still really want one of those wooden kneading troughs like I see at various historical re-enactment places. Heh. On our side trip into New Jersey back in 2000, I took Karl to various fun historical stuff, including the Ford mansion - I was hanging over the rope across the kitchen doorway seriously envying theirs.