Oh that is pretty! Almost like fractal poinsettias!
::nodnod:: Happens a lot with food, methinks. Homemade is almost always better, one. Or expert and fresh made, two. Like I'll eat calamari, but I'm snobby about it. Beni Hana's is rubbery crap. Alas. At least I like their shrimp tempura. I wonder if there's different kinds of sauerkraut that one could try at Whole Foods or something... ::ponders:: Oh red cabbage, nice! Hmmmmm... ::bookmarks:: Lemon pickles????? Hmmmm!! Although the spicing sounds more complicated than I've usually done...do we even have a spice grinder? o.O
We have two or three patches of daffs still. I have done nothing to deserve them.
The Silmarillion is deffo very dense and compared to even LotR and especially Hobbit very dry and scholarly and there's almost no dialog and it's like a list of things that happened in this mythology... I tried reading it in jr high or high school and made no headway either. I couldn't get a grip on it until I'd had a handful of religion/mythology classes and thus had an objective framework for what it was doing. It's mot really a "story" in the usual sense. People who are far better Tolkien scholars than I am have made the mythos fun, though, so it's by that lens that I've come to view things, and enjoy them even more! :D
Also! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!
And I am way behind in watching animated movies. I haven't even seen The Princess and the Frog. Or Frozen. Or The Book of Life. Or Big Hero 6. ::hangs head::
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::nodnod:: Happens a lot with food, methinks. Homemade is almost always better, one. Or expert and fresh made, two. Like I'll eat calamari, but I'm snobby about it. Beni Hana's is rubbery crap. Alas. At least I like their shrimp tempura. I wonder if there's different kinds of sauerkraut that one could try at Whole Foods or something... ::ponders::
Oh red cabbage, nice! Hmmmmm... ::bookmarks::
Lemon pickles????? Hmmmm!! Although the spicing sounds more complicated than I've usually done...do we even have a spice grinder? o.O
We have two or three patches of daffs still. I have done nothing to deserve them.
The Silmarillion is deffo very dense and compared to even LotR and especially Hobbit very dry and scholarly and there's almost no dialog and it's like a list of things that happened in this mythology... I tried reading it in jr high or high school and made no headway either. I couldn't get a grip on it until I'd had a handful of religion/mythology classes and thus had an objective framework for what it was doing. It's mot really a "story" in the usual sense. People who are far better Tolkien scholars than I am have made the mythos fun, though, so it's by that lens that I've come to view things, and enjoy them even more! :D
Also! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!
And I am way behind in watching animated movies. I haven't even seen The Princess and the Frog. Or Frozen. Or The Book of Life. Or Big Hero 6. ::hangs head::