June 2008 - Mysterious and Misplaced Logic of a Maniac Gone Awry

Jun

30

2008

If You Pout - You Shall Receive!

by Gabrielle at 7:00 am

Yesterday, when I stepped outside and looked at my cherry tomatoes, I thought for one second that I saw a hinge of red, but then discounted it as wishful thinking.

Today, when I went out to look, I spotted two little red cherry tomatoes. Well, they aren’t quite red, but they are getting there. They must have turned red over night.

Hopefully, the rest will turn red soon, so I can actually make a salad out of them. Right now I must have something in the neighborhood of 200 flowers along with 50 already grown tomatoes. I am going to have cherry tomatoes coming out of my ears!

Technically, I think they are called Grape Tomatoes, but since I have been calling them Cherry Tomatoes this entire time, that is what I am going to continue to call them.

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Categories: America, Columbia, Food, garden, plants, tomato

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Jun

29

2008

The Beast

by Gabrielle at 1:14 pm

So, my garden has gone a little wild. Just a little. You can view the progress by clicking here and here. Phil actually took a pano of my garden. I’ll put that up as soon as he puts it together.

My nine cherry tomato plants look like one giant bush! I’ve got all sorts of tomatoes, but like my beefsteaks, not a single one has a hint of red of them. I’ll cry if they don’t turn.

These here are my beefsteak tomatoes. Some are bigger than others, but not a single one has turned red.

They don’t look quite like they do in the grocery store, but eh, as long as they taste the same, I don’t really care. I can’t decide if I want to pick them as green or red peppers.

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Categories: America, Columbia, Food, garden, plants

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Jun

27

2008

Anole on the Porch

by Gabrielle at 7:00 am

This past weekend, Phil and I went up to his parent’s lake house to fish. While we were there, I noticed this little Anole chilling on the porch and took a picture of him. Being spring and all, I’m surprised he was brown instead of green.

He wouldn’t let me get too close to him, so I credit my camera with the nice crisp clean shot that I got. I swear he was posing for me. He kept turning his head in different directions, as if he were saying, “This is my better side.” After his photo session was done, he crawled in between the screen and the wood.

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Jun

26

2008

Fado in a Wine Cellar

by Gabrielle at 7:00 am

I went to Lisbon, Portugal for a week in 2004. While I was there, I had a nice dinner in a wine cellar. All the lights had gone out in the place, so we had to eat mostly by candle light. You can see the flickering lights in the video.

The women is singing Fado, a Portuguese song that is supposed to express the nostalgia felt while missing someone.

I wish I had a better camera at the time, so you could have seen the girl better, but I guess the important part is the sound.

I’m mad at myself that I didn’t take more pictures when I visited Lisbon, but at least I was smart of enough to catch this on video. I really like the sound. It’s sorta like opera, you don’t have to understand what she is saying to get it - you can feel it.

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Categories: Fado, Lisbon, Portugal, Travel

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Jun

25

2008

Paper Making Village Videos

by Gabrielle at 7:00 am

I’ve written about the paper making village I visited while I lived in Fuyang, China, before, but I never put up the videos. You can see those posts about the village here, here, and here(but the slide show died - sorry).

Enjoy!

Here we have step one. My voice over should cover all the bases.

Here we have part two. They take the smashed bits of paper and throw it into the water to be filtered out one sheet at a time. I wonder how much those guys get paid. Surely, not enough.

Here we have part three. After they have made the sheets, they have to dry them. They put them up on a very hot surface and “iron” them until they are dry. Later, they cut it and then either paint on it or turn it into books. Pretty interesting process.