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happy family dish as lunch
冷冬
佐治亚的天气缺少和缓的过度，这不，刚刚享受了几天秋凉，便是湿叽叽的寒冬了。
我们送完女儿到另外一个小城学画画，从车上下来，真是寒风刺骨，只好一头钻进附近的图书馆。
寒冬里从外面回来，美国人的习惯是泡一杯浓浓甜甜的热巧克力，撮了嘴烫烫地喝过去，甘美无比。然后，给壁炉生上火，全家围炉而坐，或玩monopoly，或各捧一本书，在木柴的噼啪声和特有的香味中度过一个安静的午后。
中国自有中国人的热闹，寒冬里，四五好友，相约开一盆麻辣火锅，在划拳声中让外面的冷雪慢慢飘飞，亦是人生一乐。
那天重看根据张爱玲小说改编的＜倾城之恋＞，里面一个以前不曾留意的细节，一种暖炉，让我记忆回到童年。
童年的冬天永远是寒冷，却又是温馨的。那种用黄铜制成的暖炉，常用于暖脚，戴上手套也可以暖手。我们把一大把棉花秆放进灶膛里，烧到一半后将其扑至半灭，就成了燃烧的木炭了，小心地用小锹挑到暖炉里，盖上。盖子中间像筛子一样，不过孔眼要大很多，便于下面’木炭’燃烧，并向上传热。
在暖炉上我和哥哥显示了我们的创造力。我们把豆子，通常是蚕豆，放进暖炉里，这样，暖炉便是色香味俱全了。当蚕豆的噼啪声渐息，香味四溢，便是我们收获的时候了。后来我们觉得豆子太麻烦，就改把山芋或土豆放进去，等到木炭烧尽，我们埋藏的美味也好了。
不知道为什么，记忆中的寒冬总是与食物联系在一起。
初中时，学校旁边有一个砖瓦厂。一天，我们几个寄宿的同学商议去那儿逛逛，顺便打一打牙祭。每人备一个铝制饭盒，里面放上米，蔬菜和一些调料。可以蒸一顿丰盛的菜饭当夜宵。去得砖瓦厂，只见到处炉火通明，热浪翻滚，工人们把新成的砖瓦推出去，旁边大电风扇猛吹着，哪像是冬天啊。
砖窑的顶部是一个个的小出气孔，正好放一个饭盒。那一晚的菜饭真香啊。
另一种中秋
另一种中秋
绪蜚
多少年了
随身带的只有这一本
《三百首》
想象唐时月
李白杯中饮尽
清风败荷
皓月桂香
而今夕
异乡月更明
心还有那么皎洁吗
于 2007-09-19 21:09:27.0
鱼 (诗一首）
鱼 (诗一首）
离水的鱼
执著地朝着水的方向
我本来是
源于好奇
要到另一片绿地
去看个究竟
不料 却搁浅在
这精致的玻璃鱼缸里
发表于 2007-09-19 09:33:47.0
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Aug 15, the pea sprouts
We put leaves in a compost area.
We also spotted a daddy long leg in the lawn.
In a raised garden bed, we found a toad, camoflauging on top of the soil and under the cardboard cover.
Later, finally before I was about to leave the garden, I found a pea in a corner just sprouted, very cute!
Aug 11, planted cabbages and peas
Here is one of our two newly established raised garden beds where we planted our seeds:
PagePlus Refill: KittyWireless vs PinCheap
I read a lot great information about PagePlus from kittywireless. The web site is not professional looking but it does have the most information about PagePlus prepaid program available in the internet. To show my appreciation, I chose to buy my next refill from kittywireless to at least give a try.
To be honest, the process is rediculously and unnecessarily complicated.
To me, I just wanted to get my PagePlus pin, pay by credit card and get the pin immediately and add it to my PagePlus account.
However, when in kittywireless, I had to do the following:
- Verify my cell phone number
- fill out a form with all my contact information along with my credit card info
- you have to create a user account there
- I have to provide a landline number so they can verify my address? (never have I done that with other e-commerce web site)
- e-sign a form to do business with kittywireless (never have I done that with other e-commerce web site)
- if you are a new customer, they cannot email you the pin
- after i went through all this, the next day, I got the email saying that my transaction was cancelled because they could not verify my account/address. By the way, I used this credit card for years with any problem with other web sites
- I wasted all my time creating this account and now I got nothing. That means, I WASTED all my time
Heck, I just wanted to pay my money, get my pin and add it to my account so I can make calls. Kittywireless does not understand e-commerce. When users wants to buy things online, they wanted it as soon as possible.
So here we had pincheap. It allows to do just that, no PagePlus phone number verification, no landline phone requirements(who has landline numbers those days anyway, are you NUTS?), no e-sign with a third-party web site, no…. just pay your bills, pin was shown in web site almost instantly. I then went to pagepluscircular.com and applied my pin and voila, I have my PagePlus account refilled.
Just one small issue with pincheap, they list credit cards as one of the payment methods, howver, the web site could only work with paypal, from my experience with CHrome web browser. By the way, you have to disable pop-up blocking, otherwise payment would not work. (After you log into paypal, you still have the option to pay with a credit card though)
Lastly but most importantly, if you buy PagePlus $80 365-day 2000 minutes pin, kittywireless sells at $80 face value, while pincheap offers it at a discounted $74, which is really NICE!
Chili’s California turkey sandwich
This is chili’s $8 combo sandwich in their Lunch menu.
I took the soup as the side. It is rich creamy , salty, and of course, a bit spicy.
The sandwich is loaded with turkey, bacon, avocado and lots of veggies.
By the way. Their door knobs are cute:
craftsman 7.0 lawn mower air filter
My lawn mower cannot start, but if I take the air filter off, it can start perfectly. Now my air filter is saturated with gas or oil?
So now I am trying to find the craftsman 7.0 lawn mower air filter…
Not sure if this is the right one:
http://www.sears.com/craftsman-air-filter-for-briggs-stratton-engines/p-07133064000P?prdNo=9&blockNo=9&blockType=G9&PDP_REDIRECT=false&s_tnt=39869:4:0#desc
