]]> http://www.artandcarly.com/travels/art-working-hard-at-the-polling-station/feed/ http://www.artandcarly.com/pleasures/baking/obama-apple-pie/ http://www.artandcarly.com/pleasures/baking/obama-apple-pie/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:02:00 +0000 carly http://www.artandcarly.com/travels/obama-apple-pie/

No pie for you if you vote McCain.  Art’s already voted because he’s working at the polls on Tuesday.  I’ve got my pencil sharpened and ready.  Hey — Barack — how about a vote in Congress for your loyal DC voters?  (knocking on wood…)

*contains no obamas

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Our Petunia is fighting a terrible bunny condition called head tilt. She looks so cute in this picture, taken the first couple of days. Her condition has stabilized and we have high hopes she’ll pull through and recover entirely. I’m looking forward to her head being upright where it belongs again.

But the really amazing thing, has been the support of the Bunny Lovers Unite (BLU) community on Flickr. These amazing people have been providing support and advice beyond imagination. They even prod us for updates if we don’t provide them every couple of days!

We’ve been posting the updates on Petunia’s recovery on BLU, and you can follow them there too.

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Photo Collage from our Adirondack Adventure back to Heart Lake. Head over to Flickr to see more!

Art and his blueberries. Considering how many he buys at the market, he brought his own bowl to just carry them home in.

4 quarts of blueberries (the three I bought last week we gone by noon Tuesday)
1 quart of sweet cherries and
1 pint of blackberries (not pictured)

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I’m a little disturbed that the word “Cream” was the biggest! This was made using a new site caled Wordle. It creates a tag cloud based on the words from your blog or any text you drop in. The bigger the word the more frequently it appears.

Now fork over that trail mix.
And the lemonade, too. I’m thirsty

Thanks to Floofle for bringing this fun meme to my attention.

Head over to Flickr to see what each image is about.

Flickr game:

the rules:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker).

the questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

1. Carly inspired, 2. “I, Piórko, like Cheese!”, 3. Oliver Ames High School, North Easton, Mass., 4. ♫ YO Yo yo, there’s no place like a green penthouse… so i told the genie i wanted to be well hung. ^o^ ♫ nah… wildlife from singapore♫, 5. Hugh Jackman, 6. Kombucha, 7. ????????Flying in Time…, 8. homemade berry ice cream, 9. Kohenet - Tzovah Initiation, 10. Local Kicks Covers the Alexandria Arts Festival, 11. abundance prayer, 12. IMG_7087

Created with fd’s Flickr Toys.

Lavender Lemon Balm Ice Cream

I have been an ice cream making fiend this weekend. Art works hard to grow all this great stuff, it’s my job to turn it into yummy ice cream!

Most of my friends are asking about the Rose Petal ice cream, which I’ve made 3 batches of so far.

My favorite is the mint chocolate chip. It’s hard to imagine how good mint infusing in cream smells. I guess if you eat some of the ice cream, you can get the idea.

The total ice cream count so far is:

• Rose Petal: 3 Batches
• Mint Chocolate Chip: 2 Batches
• Lavender Lemon Balm: 2 Batches
• Locust Blossom: 2 Batches

Phew! I need more freezer space.

Here’s last year’s ice cream report, in case you missed it.

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Saturday

We set out on a spring Ramp hunt. As you can see from the picture of Art lounging in the Ramps, we found plenty. But…we also found this sweet little toad

who posed for a few pictures and then lead us right to:

That’s right - $50/lb morel mushrooms. That shot is actually of the exact morel mushroom the toad was kind enough to draw my attention to! We found about a dozen more.
mebeli

There was also a good deal of cooperative wildlife that day, including this snake who posed for several shots.

Sunday
I can sum up Sunday in one word: Goslings.

More insanely cute gosling pictures on Flickr.

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