Friday Food Photo

G-Dog got a mushroom patch as a gift this past xmas and we harvested our first crop recently. Here's the little fungi just getting starting to sprout...

And here they are just a few days later, starting to look like proper shiitakes...

We let them get quite a bit bigger before we made a proper dish out of them. And now, the patch is drying out for a bit before we resoak it and start the process over again.

Have a great weekend, everyone! Don't forget the cursed time change (wasn't Obama supposed to do away the madness?).

Another spotting...

"Daylight Sayings time tonight. Most states set their clocks forward an hour. Wisconsin this year is setting clocks both forward one hour and back 50 years."

Here's a bit of great news!

Obama might get rid of daylight saving time!

If it's true, I'll be be thrilled. Time changes make me crazy.

Dischronicized

I'm back, but I have no idea what time it really is.

It's been a very confusing weekend. I spent the weekend at Fall Creek Falls State Park, which is in central time, so we gained an hour on Friday when we drove up (here in Chattanooga, we're right on the edge of eastern time). Then as we slept Saturday night, we lost an hour along with most of the rest of you, when Daylight Savings Time kicked in. And then we lost another hour when we drove back home today. Sheesh. (For the record, I'm in favor of just picking one time and sticking with it. These time changes seem pretty pointless.)

It was a great weekend otherwise. It was warm and mostly sunny and I got to spend a lot of time wandering around in the woods.

It's spring break around here this week, so the confusion over time will probably continue -- the alarm won't be buzzing in the mornings and, jeeze! it's 8pm already and it's only just getting dark out! I'm off to fix some dinner...

Daylight Savings Headache

Is there anyone out there who thinks this is a good thing?

Arrrgh. I feel like half my day was stolen away... anyway, here's something I didn't know about Daylight Saving Time (note the spelling of the middle word!): next year we'll be going to it almost a month earlier than usual (via beep). I don't see that any advantage is worth the accidents, loss of productivity and other headaches that come with the change in time, so put me down as one vote to stop the madness!

In other disaster news, Aretha Frankensteins burned down this morning, which means that Chattanooga no longer has a hip hangout where they serve a killer breakfast all day long.

And the Katherine Harris campaign continues to circle the drain.

But, it won't be dark out at dinner time any more... or something... ugh.

Saving what?

“I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.” —Robertson Davies, in The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks