Dreamflower's Mathom-house

The Jimmy Stewart version of Destry Rides Again is immensely better than the Audie Murphy version, mainly due to the incomparable Marlene Dietrich.

Just thought I'd say that.

A little late, but still under the wire in my time zone, here is my birthday mathom for all of you:

Almost all of Bilbo's guests at his sixtieth birthday party have gone, but one good friend remains to talk...

Ten Years After There and Back Again
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Today's harvest: eggplant, more cukes, and a few more green beans.



Yesterday four small beets and some more green beans. I forgot to take their picture.

I made eggplant lasagna for supper: substituting eggplant for the noodles, I peeled and sliced them about 1/4" thick, brushed a little olive oil on both sides and baked them about ten minutes. Then I layered the eggplant with my tomato sauce and the cheese (had to sub cottage cheese for riccotta) mixture, and topped off with grated mozarella. I also roasted the beets in aluminum foil for about 30 minutes, and then grated them onto our salads, topped with raspberry vinaigrette dressing.

I still have two eggplants left, and have accumulated about a half-mess of beans. And I am fairly certain I'll be making pickles next week with all those cukes!

The DH and I went to the matinee today to see Brave and I have to say it was adorable. Merida is easily the best of the "modern" crop of Disney princesses!

ETA Brave spoiler in the comments. There's "spoiler space" though.

My sweetie picked me flowers:( Read more... )

Chapter 9 of "In the Court of the High King" is up at SoA and MPTT. In this chapter, Aragorn ponders his options, and the hobbits have a night on the town...

Chapter 9 at MPTT
Chapter 9 at Stories of Arda

Hey everybody! Some of our friends have been nominated in the Giggle/Snort awards, and made it to the finals!

My nomination for grey_wondererfor "The Story of Poor, Unfortunate Toffin" is in the one shot category! lindahoyland and virtuella also have some stories competing!

Go to The Giggle/Snort Awards to vote! The voting has already started!

We had our supper out of our garden tonight! The only things not from the garden were the chicken and the potatoes! Food picspam behind the cut: ( Read more... )

Chapter three of "Eleventy-one Years: Too Short a Time" has been posted. In "Encounter, part two, Belladonna and wee Bilbo encounter someone they do not expect...

Eleventy-one Years, Encounter part two at Many Paths to Tread
Eleventy-one Years, Encounter part two at Stories of Arda
Eleventy-one Years, Encounter part two at Fanfiction.net (Yes, I took the plunge, LOL!)

shirebound, this is for you! I could not find my little grey purse-- but I know I still have it somewhere, because it's not that long since I saw it. However, I found lots of other nifty things to show... ( Read more... )