Rosemary and Olive Oil Tuesday, Feb 19 2008 

Daily and Decoration and Dinner and Photoblog krmb 10:55 am

18 February 2008
Some dear friends have suddenly moved to the area for the next 8 months (or so). To celebrate, a batch of us went to Italianni's, a local Italian (go figure) restaurant that we've always enjoyed. We wanted to treat them to someplace nice. When we arrived, they had the tables decorated with bottles of Olive Oil & Balsamic Vinegar. This is one of the Olive Oil bottles with a sprig of Rosemary stuffed in it. I really loved the way the table candles backlit the sprig, but I confess to it looking far better in my mind than the final product.
Rosemary and Olive Oil
Cheers.

~KR (Written on 19 February 200 8)

Listening to:
Can't Stop This Thing We Started by Bryan Adams
from Billboard Top 100 of 1991

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.4 sec (2/5)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

 

Mercado Juarez Tuesday, Feb 19 2008 

Daily and Dinner and Photoblog and Texas krmb 10:48 am

17 February 2008
Marita Beth went to Scarborough Faire today to meet with clients, I stayed home and worked a bit on a variety of things. No single task really drew me to it, nor occupied my time completely. I watched some football, I worked on some Middle-Earth game stuff, I worked on some journal entries, I watched a movie. All of it very non-interesting. When Marita Beth got home she was hungry and I didn't want to be at home anymore. So, off we went. We drove up to the relatively new & burgeoning Highlands of Arlington shopping area knowing full-well we'd find something to eat in the area. We wound up at Mercado Juarez:
Mercado Juarez
Ironic in that MJ has been there for longer than I've lived in Arlington and all this new stuff has just sprung up around it. Good food, good margaritas, good company across the table and the Daytona 500 on the telly. A decent escape, but I sure paid for it later. My stomach is just too sensitive these days to put much in it without regretting doing so. The price of getting old, I suppose.
Cheers.

~KR (Written on 18 February 200 8)

Listening to:
Written All Over Your Face by Rude Boys
from Billboard Top 100 of 1991

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/9
Focal Length: 8.6 mm
ISO Speed: 80
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire, auto mode

 

Light, Plane and Rainbow Tuesday, Feb 19 2008 

Daily and Photoblog and Plane and Sky and Weather krmb 10:37 am

16 February 2008
I spent nearly the entire day out of the house. I made a quick trip to Fry's to pick up some missing, yet necessary, electronic components. Following that, I made a trip back to my neighborhood to meet up with T. We had work to do, so do it we did. No Frills Grill offers free Wi-Fi and a pleasant, stress-free environment in which to dig deep into the nitty gritty of the work. We'd been there maybe an hour when the "thunder boomers" came through with a vengeance even knocking out power, satellite & wi-fi service for 15 minutes or so. Another half hour or so went by when Janessa (our waitress) stopped by the table to tell us to head outside to take a look at the rainbow. When we arrived it was a full, double rainbow. We don't see that too terribly often around Arlington, so I grabbed a series of photos. This one I like best as it shows a plane just turning into the rainbow:
Light, Plane & Rainbow.
Cheers.

~KR (Written on 18 February 200 8)

Listening to:
Song of the Open Road by Jenny Scheinman
from 12 Songs

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.04 sec (1/25)
Aperture: f/3.5
Focal Length: 10 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

 

Peanut Butter and Honey Tuesday, Feb 19 2008 

Daily and Photoblog krmb 10:31 am

15 February 20087
You can tell your life is taking a turn for the exciting when the best photo you have of your day is of your extremely non-exciting dinner. I'm not exactly sure why I had a Peanut Butter & Honey sandwich for dinner, but I did. Hmmm.
Lunch
Cheers.

~KR (Written on 18 February 200 8)

Listening to:
I Started a Joke by the Bee Gees
from Number Ones

Camera: Canon PowerShot SD850 IS
Exposure: 0.1 sec (1/10)
Aperture: f/2.8
Focal Length: 5.8 mm
ISO Speed: 200
Exposure Bias: 0/3 EV
Flash: Flash did not fire

 

Strawberry Daquiri Cheesecake Tuesday, Feb 19 2008 

Daily krmb 9:09 am

Strawberry Daquiri Cheesecake

18 February 2008

President’s Day

Remember when Lincoln and Washington each actually had their own birthdays?  When I was a kid, we celebrated the twelfth of February as Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, and the 22nd of February as George Washington’s birthday.  We had those days off from school, and we were taught why.  We knew which man was the first president and which was the sixteenth!  We knew which one crossed the Delaware and supposedly chopped down a cherry tree, and which one gave the Gettysburg Address.  Today’s kids don’t even know why they were off school today.  <sigh>

Kelly and I accomplished much today in the way of preparations for Melanie’s dress.  We have a valid workspace carved out of my little workshop.  And we ran the errands to get what should be the last of the supplies we need.  By tomorrow we should have the patterning done, and be into cutting fabric!

Tonight’s dinner gathering was planned with just a few hours notice, but it worked out great.  Our friends Jim and Sharon are in town due to his job, and we met them at one of our favourite restaurants, Italianni’s in Hurst.  We enjoyed their company and each other’s, immensely.  With Ginger back from Florida, and Kelly in town for a while, and Janet with wedding plans and preparations behind her, now, it was a wonderful gathering of good friends that all too rarely get to see each other.

My grainy photo (the camera seems to have been on the wrong setting all night!  Grrrr.) is of the dessert that Ginger and I ordered and shared.  Oh my, was it yummy!  We had a great waiter, who was just the perfect amount of “smart alec” and even showed interest in and knowledge of the historical clothing photos that Kelly and Sharon were looking at and discussing.  And to top it all off, when we asked for separate checks, he not only produced them quickly and correctly, but he had split the dessert onto the proper two checks, and even split the bottle of wine correctly onto three separate checks!  He did exactly what almost every waiter everywhere is able to do, and yet won’t.  He earned our respect and admiration—-and he got a very nice tip.  Too bad that level of caring and customer service is so rare.

Hmmm . . . maybe it’s because they don’t teach kids the difference between Washington and Lincoln! :-)

~MB