Three things for Sunday
14 Sep 2025 11:23![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nwhiker1. It's Anne-Chloe's birthday! Hard to think that my sweet little baby girl is 28 years old! How did that happen?
2. I went into the hospital on a summer day and came out into fall. Today is much the same, a cool wet clearly fall rain is falling. I love it. In a related note, I made my first batch of gingerbread this morning! I'll be making risotto at the request of the birthday girl, we picked up a cake at Costco, but I wanted to make one and gingerbread seemed like a good fit for the day. I'll probably make a whisky hard sauce to go with it. Funny thing. Gingerbread is probably my most often made cake in the fall and winter, and I ignore the paltry amount of spices in the recipe, start by doubling all but the cloves, and adding a whole bunch of other spices. It's a different cake each time, though by start of the yearly gingerbread baking time I've forgotten the mix and balances I liked the previous year. I should write it down. Only I won't.
3. Just finished a really good book today: The White Cascade by Gary Krist. The writing was only decent, but the story got told and told well. It was about the avalanche in Wellington, where two trains got swept away after a week's worth of horrid storms, having been trapped in the Cascades up near Scenic for six days. I've known the story for a long time, of course, and am a bit familiar with the general vicinity, but now, tbh, I want to go out there with map and compass and see what I can see. There is nothing left of the places in the book, but the mountains remain.
2. I went into the hospital on a summer day and came out into fall. Today is much the same, a cool wet clearly fall rain is falling. I love it. In a related note, I made my first batch of gingerbread this morning! I'll be making risotto at the request of the birthday girl, we picked up a cake at Costco, but I wanted to make one and gingerbread seemed like a good fit for the day. I'll probably make a whisky hard sauce to go with it. Funny thing. Gingerbread is probably my most often made cake in the fall and winter, and I ignore the paltry amount of spices in the recipe, start by doubling all but the cloves, and adding a whole bunch of other spices. It's a different cake each time, though by start of the yearly gingerbread baking time I've forgotten the mix and balances I liked the previous year. I should write it down. Only I won't.
3. Just finished a really good book today: The White Cascade by Gary Krist. The writing was only decent, but the story got told and told well. It was about the avalanche in Wellington, where two trains got swept away after a week's worth of horrid storms, having been trapped in the Cascades up near Scenic for six days. I've known the story for a long time, of course, and am a bit familiar with the general vicinity, but now, tbh, I want to go out there with map and compass and see what I can see. There is nothing left of the places in the book, but the mountains remain.
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