Nifty sites for kids

• storylinonline.net - Screen Actor's Guild members read storys aloud. I have a particular fondness for Sean Austin reading "A Bad Case of the Stripes" by David Shannon.


• Strange Matter - kind of noisy and annoying but all was forgiven when I got to the Zoom
  section.


• View Earth from a Satellite - Its and old one but it is still a good one.

Just a Taste

For rabid Firefly fans... the new Serenity Trailer is out. Keep up the buzz and maybe it'll come to a theater near me.

The Great Outdoors

Mike summed up our trip last weekend perfectly. It was gorgeous, cold, windy, and all-around good fun. I wouldn’t have traded it for a weekend at a luxury spa. In fact, I am quite proud of myself. I learned to pee in the woods. It is something that I never learned to do but viewed as a necessary skill if you want to be an independent, go-getting, modern woman…not sure why.

Oh, and we spotted a real live Ent in its natural habitat… ...yeah, I’m a dork.

Yummiest Yoghurt

Greek yoghurt is completely different from the slimy American style stuff. It is thick and creamy, rich and smooth. Like a tangy mousse or real whipped heavy cream. It is lovely plain or mixed with fruit. My favorite is to take honey and swirl it into the yoghurt. I want to see ribbons of honey not something whipped into uniformity. A spoonful of the stuff is divine, the first tangy but oh so creamy bite and then the honey melting into the tart leaving your tongue with a tingle. What makes Greek yoghurt so much better? It is the fat of course.

I get my yoghurt at a local international market, World Harvest. I understand that the organic chains are starting to carry it. Or, if you live somewhere less cosmopolitan, GormetSleuth has a recipe or you can approximate Greek yoghurt by draining American whole milk yoghurt in cheese cloth. I haven’t tried it made that way but I’m told it’ll do in a pinch.

So you hate to mow the lawn..

Most days I really do enjoy mowing the lawn, but sometimes this
doesn't look like such a bad solution.