Monday now...

Hello:

I made snicker doodle cookies over the past weekend. Mine are not a round and fluffy as the ones I bought at the used book sale, but this is my first effort.

I am sure a Kitchen Aid mixer would have helped me, especially the dough hook attachment. I wonder if every thing got mixed together as I prepared the cookies. I will check on Craigslist to see what one costs these days. I know my ex-wife got on as a wedding gift when we got married, but she is probably still using it as she was one of the best cooks I ever met.

I finished The Surgeon late last week. The ending shows up on the TV show on TNT of Rissoli and Isles. I have 3 more books here I got at the used book sale at the used book store in early September. I also ordered three more books from the library. I know The Surgeon started the series but I must figure out the order the next six books.

Now I am reading The Tiger, a true story of a Siberian tiger attach in eastern Russia. The attach seems like vengeance to me. I will not give away the entire story, but it starts with a friend of the victim finding what is left of his friend. The tiger not only attacked this person but the tiger also destroyed his cabin and out-buildings. The officials there first thought the victim shot and killed the cub of a female tiger. But the paw prints were just too big for a female. I am about half way through this book.

My plan now is to read, alternatively, a book from the library, a book in my Kindle 3 and a book from my private collection.

But I fear I will break this new tradition right away. My next book is one the three books you would want to take back to the Renaissance, The Sixteen Pleasures. I got this from the library.

Waiting for me at the library is the 1,000 page book Fall of Giants, the new Ken Follet book. After reading a review of this book on my Kindle today, from The New York Times, I think I will wait to see the movie or wait until all 3 books of this trilogy come out. Follet moved from the Middle Ages to the start of the 20th century with this new trilogy.

How was your weekend? Feel free to leave a comment on this site. When you scroll down to the bottom of a post you see where you can leave a comment. Either do that or send me an email at schwindt68@hotmail.com

Pictures will come in my next post.

Steve

Picture of the day

Two panda babies sleeping where they can find it.

Steven

Big haul at book sale today

Hi again:

I went to the used book sale at the Community Center. Here is a list of books I got for $5.00 per bag. I got one bag of books:

The Elements of Editing
Rhymes of the City of Roses
Cliff Notes for The Scarlet Letter
Handbook on Haiku
My Beloved: Classic Messages of Love
Leadership and the One Minute Manager
Chinese Dishes
Better Homes & Garden Best Wok Recipes
Step by Step Chinese Cooking
The Oregon Trawlfish and Shrimp Story
World's Best Fish and Seafood Recipes
Vegetable Dishes
Home Canning of Meat
Reverse Diabetes with Food
Eat to Beat Diabetes
Better Homes & Garden New Cook Book
No Regrets: Junior League of Portland
Single and Single: A Novel
Therapy: A Novel
The Navigator: A Novel
Seven Days in May: A Novel
The Andromeda Strain
Burr: A Novel
Crock Pot Cooking
Pillars of the Earth
The Spies of Warsaw
Elements of Management (as a Kindle cover, not to read)

Quite the list. Some novels on this list I read in the past but many years ago. Two others I plan to use as gifts in the coming Christmas season.

I bought some snicker doodle cookies yesterday. I never ate one before, so I went online to find the recipe. I made a batch today. Mine do not raise like the ones I bought. But this is the first time I made these cookies.

I am almost finished with The Surgeon, the first book of Detective Rossili. It is a good novel.

How is your weekend going.

Mine is going fine.

Steven

My rhubarb just before I cut it for the 5th time. I may fertilize it again to see if I can get six cutting off it.

Steven

The weekend is here...almost

Hello:

I went to the Friends of the Library used book sale. There are so many books, after tomorrow the bulk will go the recyclers. There are boxes and boxes of books under the many tables. I bought some last night and some today. Tomorrow, Saturday, it is $5.00 per bag of books. I will go there to look one more time. I have not found all that I wanted there. I saw no books by Tess Gerritsen nor any books I want on Shakespeare there. They do have one big book of everything Shakespeare wrote but it has no footnotes.

I am going down to the Used Book store here sponsored by Friends of the Library to see what I can find there. The book prices are a little higher there but not so much.

I am reading The Surgeon on my Kindle 3. It is the first book by Tess Gerritsen that features Detective Rossoli and maybe Medical Examiner Isles. I watched the TV show on TNT.

The Kindle 3 still does not have page numbers but it does tell you how are along you are in a book by percentage. So in this book I am now 29% through it. I will finish it probably tomorrow, then on to read The Tiger, a true story of a tiger attack in eastern Russia.

Hope your weekend goes well.

Steven