We go just before sundown, so we can play on the slides in the daylight and then view the carvings by their own lighting.
Wheeeeeeeeeee!!!
A turtle!
A raven! I like the single block carvings the best, even though they aren't as large and fantastical as the multi-block. I feel like they are more detailed, and I definitely like that they are seamless.
It seems every year a few artists go all Discovery Channel with their animal carvings.
My favorite! Coo coo catchoo!
A life-size chess game!
It's Ivory Jack!
The multi-blocks also don't photograph as well for me. I can't catch all of the light. Nevertheless, here is a dog team! (Don't forget you can click to embiggen.)
This leopard in his gazebo was fantastic!
So yesterday afternoon I shoveled the snow off my then-empty pallets to stack my new wood:
Not a bad fit for exactly a single cord, eh? I'm getting pretty good at eyeballing this sort of thing
I think I'm good for a while now on firewood!
After skijoring with the girls, stacking the wood, and knowing I'd spend the evening at the Ice Park, I roasted a chicken and made myself a bowl of delicious noodle soup with mustard greens and lots of cilantro. Yum!
Happy National Pi Day, everyone!
3 comments:
How did you roast your chicken?
You know how navel oranges have a little embryonic orange at one end? I put that, the orange peel pieces, star anise, a cinnamon stick, and whole garlic cloves inside the cavity and pinned it shut. Then I trussed the chicken and rubbed white pepper and soy sauce all over the outside.
Then I roasted it at 350F for about half an hour right-side up, then flipped it upside-down and let it roast for another half an hour. Then turned the oven up to 400 and let it roast for another half an hour.
No basting. I don't subscribe to basting as the skin just doesn't look porous enough to me that I'll believe any juices penetrate through by just pouring them over. I think basting is a waste of time, effort, and oven heat!
Yeah, good food, good fun and good spirit :-) Your chicken looks so professionally done and delicious.
I took back from B's some flour that will expire in 05/2011.
I whipped in one egg with three tbp of flour, made two warm, delicious simple pancakes. yummy:-)
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