tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58719833887139103032024-03-14T00:09:38.349-07:00Designs by VictoriaDesigns by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.comBlogger617125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-34981189515505126202016-04-16T14:39:00.003-07:002016-04-16T14:39:37.620-07:00ECCC 2016So it's been awhile. In the time since I last posted, I've closed my business. I've been telling myself I'm going to play with my photography more. We'll see if I actually do. I did bring the camera along to Emerald City Comicon one day last week.<br />
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How I started:<br />
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And how it stands today:<br />
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The biggest stumbling block, and what I've been workion on since my last post, was the removal of the stump from the old holly tree. I got that out yesterday, finally:<br />
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I now have 7 black orchids and 12 burgundy tulips planted, and will be waiting for spring with even more anticipation than usual.<br />
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...Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-88916417446091254522014-09-21T20:13:00.000-07:002014-09-21T20:13:15.490-07:00The landscaping project, part IIPart I <a href="http://dbvictoria.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-landscaping-project.html" target="_blank">here</a>:<br />
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We can haz wall?<br />
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This is how the yard looked when we started today:<br />
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We made an excursion to Home Depot, buying 900 pounds of sand:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="500" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/15313490651/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="375"></iframe><br />
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Then we finished smoothing out some bumps in the trench and made a beach strip with the sand:<br />
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(Guest blog appearance by the husband!)<br />
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The first row was the hardest. We ended up with a bit of a wavy line because of how the yard is shaped, but I like curves.<br />
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Second row went in easy-peasy:<br />
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The rock pile that we accumulated while digging the trench was great filler behind the bricks.<br />
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I could never have managed the heavy lifting by myself. <br />
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We still need some more gravel for fill, and then will shovel some of the dirt back in and level things off. Once we've got the filling done, we'll see if we should add a fifth row. But the hardest of the work is done! Hooray!<br />
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....Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-80160188845530725062014-09-19T22:10:00.002-07:002014-09-22T19:50:43.906-07:00A fairy tale<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="500" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/15107616328/in/photostream/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="333"></iframe> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="500" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/15271170336/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="333"></iframe><br />
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Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-83689387245692458272014-08-25T11:20:00.000-07:002014-08-25T11:20:10.744-07:00The landscaping projectBusiness has been slow. I'd blame it on the fact that I haven't been promoting, but it was slow when I was doing a lot of promoting, and I got tired of wasting time and energy. So, time to put that creative force into something else!<br />
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Our house is on the side of a steep hill. How steep is it, you ask? Well, when we have a good snowstorm, the city puts up barricades at the top and bottom instead of plowing, if that gives you any idea, and when I had my minivan I'd have to get the front brakes replaced every couple of years.<br />
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What that means for our house is that you walk in the front door, go through the living room into the dining room and go out the French doors there, you find yourself on our deck, which is a good 8-10 feet over the back yard. If you go into the basement, there are two windows that overlook the street on the North side and from the back we look like a 2-story house. Then, when you go along the fence line dividing ours from our neighbor's property, you find yourself going downhill and when you end up in the back section of our yard you find yourself staring at a rock wall and a back yard that's now about 8-10 feet above street level.<br />
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Along this rock wall is a dirt slope that up until 2 years ago was completely taken over by a holly tree. I took that down to the stump, and last winter I pruned the pear tree on the corner that we hadn't touched in over a decade. And then this spring, I got the wild idea that I wanted to turn this area into an iris bed. I found some lovely black irises, which I proceeded to purchase, and now I've got to get this part of our property fit to plant.<br />
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Here's a panoramic view of the area in question before I started:<br />
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And a side view:<br />
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There's still a couple of areas that aren't quite clear yet, but I need to get this going as I'm running out of planting time.<br />
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That second picture is of the front corner, and a giant thistle grew up in everything else there. I missed getting a picture of it when it was in bloom, but it's still pretty nifty looking in its going to seed phase:<br />
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Here's a sad diagram I did in Photoshop of my grand plan:<br />
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<a href="http://www.lowes.com/projects/gardening-and-outdoor/build-a-block-retaining-wall/project" target="_blank">Here's how you build a retaining wall.</a><br />
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My husband is also redoing the upper part of the back yard. He just completed a new fence yesterday and this evening he'll start clearing the area where he wants to put a fire pit. We did the math on how many retaining wall bricks I needed and how many he needed, added another 20% on top of that, and the lovely folks at Lowe's delivered two pallets yesterday morning.<br />
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Part of the clearing included breaking up all the branches from the holly and pine trees, which will be used in the christening of the fire pit.<br />
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I'm in the "dig a trench" phase now, which is step 2 of part 1. (Part 1 Step 1 was to make a string line. That's the only part of this entire process that didn't involve sweating.) It's a good 30 along this section, and I'm about 8' in as of this morning. I started out having to dig in only ~14" because the back corner is flatter, but I'm up to ~24" in width now because the creep is increasing as I get out towards the street. There's also the stump of the now officially titled Evil Holly Tree, and its roots.<br />
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Day 1 (yesterday) trench progress:<br />
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And so far today:<br />
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I had to dig in a big further because of that root thing. This time it's not the fault of my being straight-line challenged. (Yes, this time.)<br />
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It's now getting into the hot part of the day, so I'm breaking until about 4 in the afternoon, then going out for some more torture, I mean digging. I hope to have the trench finished by tomorrow evening, and the husband hopes to have the firepit completed by tomorrow evening. I hope he finishes too, because then I can wheedle him into helping me, but the firepit comes first because we hope to premiere it for our birthday party next weekend. (His birthday was actually Thursday, and mine is today.)<br />
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Oh, and if you'd told me 20 years ago that I'd be doing yardwork and landscaping on my birthday, I'd have suggested you go get yourselves committed. How times change.<br />
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My reaction to finding out that <a href="http://www.shareacoke.com/#find" target="_blank">Share a Coke</a> does not have my name available.Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-8616233759893376592014-07-12T12:51:00.000-07:002014-07-12T12:51:30.329-07:00Bathtime!We went out to Saltwater State Park this morning, and the tide was out, which meant lots of tide pools, lots of squirting clams, and lots and lots of stinky slimy piles of seaweed. We ended up with a stinky, slimy dog, so when we got home there was bathtime.<br />
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...Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-11943649536480163292014-07-05T14:09:00.003-07:002014-07-05T14:09:55.528-07:00Silly cat postOur 10 month old cat, who is already bigger than any cat I've ever owned, has a new cat tree, and a new toy to go with it:<br />
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The full album is <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/sets/72157644875138239/" target="_blank">here</a>, and here's a few of my favorites from it:<br />
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bonus ladybug!<br />
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The paint shade is "paprika" and it's what we used in the kitchen when we got that redone about 5 years ago. The edging around the shower is sheets of molded plastic that you cut to shape.<br />
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We still need to add some crown molding along the ceiling/wall juncture, and we're planning on hanging a big mirror on the back wall above the towel rack, but that's just window dressing. <br />
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There's more pictures <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/sets/72157644628766313" target="_blank">here</a>.Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-8149338888384905012014-05-06T16:03:00.000-07:002014-05-06T16:03:08.485-07:00My birthday came early this yearEver since my beloved old Nikon bit the dirt and I replaced it with my current Canon, I've been horribly missing the macro function the Nikon had, that the Canon needed a separate lens for. I put it on my Amazon wish list and forgot about it for awhile. When I went back and looked a couple of years later, it had doubled in price. I put it on the back burner again, and the next time I checked it had gone up another $200. Bummer. But last week, when I checked, I found a factory refurbished lens for almost half the current retail price for a new one. It was still $150 more than it would have been if I'd just bought the silly thing when I first got the camera, of course, but that's water under the bridge now. I shouldn't really have bought it, not when we just paid the taxman and car insurance last month, but if I'd let it go I would totally be kicking myself for months.<br />
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So here it is:<br />
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Previously I've been taking large pictures as close as the stock lens would allow, and then cropping images down in Photoshop. No more!<br />
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Here's a couple of comparison shots between my stock lens and my new baby:<br />
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I'm going to have to play around with the depth of focus for a bit, obviously, but that won't be a hardship.<br />
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Off to go play now....<br />
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.Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-14695042973520453632014-04-23T16:40:00.000-07:002014-05-06T16:03:36.618-07:00Pandora's hat boxI was a part of a huge group presentation for this year's Masquerade. The theme was Pandora's hat box, and we based our silhouettes off of clothing styles from the 1890s-1910s, although historical accuracy wasn't a big deal for us. Pandora opened the hatbox and released the following evils: gossip, lust, greed, pests, plague, pollution, misery, jealousy, and death.<br />
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I picked Lust as my evil. Lust is represented traditionally by the color blue and the goat. With the goat, I of course had to go with gigot sleeves, and I picked a hobble skirt pattern for the va va voom factor. I found an incredible patterned upholstery velvet and some black and blue satin brocade. To represent the goat, I made a "beard", a cravat with some angora wool, and added horns to my hat.<br />
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(I just realized i haven't taken any good pictures of the hat! I'll have to remedy that.)<br />
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The skirt has a ruched panel in the front of the contrast fabric. I found two incredible blue metallic trims to go with the outfit, and used one of them to outline the skirt and another around the hem.<br />
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The trim was laid out on the back and tacked down with my sewing machine, but then I had to hand-sew all along the edges to keep it from curling up.<br />
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Here's the finished outfit with the hat:<br />
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I actually took about 6" out of the sleeves, believe it or not!<br />
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Unfortunately we didn't get a picture of all 10 of us together. Here's me with gossip and greed:<br />
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Our group won Best Use of Theme, which was Elegance and Entropy. My first Masquerade award!<br />
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Planning ahead - I'd realized that this outfit had potential,and put together a custom wig to represent District 1 for the Hunger Games.<br />
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With different makeup and a lace cravat:<br />
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Very much looking forward to getting a lot more wear out of this, as I love the color and for once the outfit turned out exactly as I'd pictured it in my head.Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-29133308342685557302014-04-02T17:18:00.000-07:002014-04-02T17:19:14.600-07:00Cherry blossom timeA spring tradition, going to see the cherry blossoms at the <a href="http://depts.washington.edu/uwbg/gardens/wpa.shtml" target="_blank">Washington Park Arboretum</a>. Here's a few of this year's pictures:<br />
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I ended up spending a lot of time looking at tree trunks and branches this year, it seems.<br />
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The full set is <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/sets/72157643133518074/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-56277423265497201402014-03-31T18:31:00.000-07:002014-03-31T18:31:13.981-07:00Emerald City Comicon, 2014Photos <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/sets/72157643196692385/">here</a>. We didn't have any money to spend this year, which made me whimper when we were at the <a href="http://www.blondeswan.com/4.1/Scripts/default.asp" target="_blank">Blonde Swan</a> booth, and <a href="http://fez-o-rama.com/" target="_blank">Fez-o-Rama</a>.<br /><br />We were only there for three and a half hours, but we were totally wiped. We got stuck in a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd in one of the aisles. Hadn't felt like that since I stopped hitting Bourbon Street during Mardi Gras back in ye olde college daze! If that's what a Sunday afternoon is like, I don't want to imagine a Saturday.<br /><br />My entire costume collection is currently piled in a giant heap in the spare bedroom, so I defaulted to a variant of the outfit I wore for the Steamcon wake last weekend, switching out the corset.<br /><br /><lj-embed id="189"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="500" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" msallowfullscreen="msallowfullscreen" oallowfullscreen="oallowfullscreen" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/13531600214/in/set-72157643196692385/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="333"></iframe></lj-embed><br /><br />A bunch of the husband's coworkers dressed up as various superheroes. I missed my chance to one of them coworker crossdressing as classic Supergirl, but here's Nightwing and Batgirl:<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="500" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/13531290165/in/set-72157643196692385/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="333"></iframe><br /><br />And one more fantastic WWII Captain America:<br /><br /><lj-embed id="191"><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="500" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" msallowfullscreen="msallowfullscreen" oallowfullscreen="oallowfullscreen" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/13531597314/in/set-72157643196692385/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="333"></iframe></lj-embed><br /><br />The best outfit all day, of which I didn't get a picture because it was someone else's wee one, was a little girl dressed up in a bright yellow generic superhero bodysuit with a shiny red cape. When the husband asked who she was supposed to be, she said "Super Red Riding Hood!"Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-37070697273545597832014-03-01T21:31:00.000-08:002014-03-01T21:32:02.080-08:00Pie night!It's embarrassing how long it's been since I've updated here. Bad Victoria. But I got pie anyways. I went to a pie night tonight, and got to visit with folks I don't see hardly often enough AND stuff my face with tasty food. Win and win again.<br />
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These pie nights have been occurring for 12 years, I was told. I hope to attend many more. There are themes sometimes, and tonight's was "The Pie Night That Should Not Be," which meant we all made pies that were odd combinations of ingredients or just outright odd. The winner of the night was the chocolate bacon bourbon pecan pie. There was grape pie and avocado and carmelized onion pie with green olives and hair pie and taco pie and mock apple pie and strawberry lemonade pie and a bunch of others I am forgetting. There were more than 20 but less than 30 pies.<br />
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Before (not all pies had arrived when I took this shot):<br />
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My contribution was a chili chocolate custard pie with cinnamon chocolate cookie crust and cinnamon whipped cream.<br />
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I started with <a hocolate-custard-pie="" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5871983388713910303" http:="" id="" www.instructables.com="">this recipe here</a>, and made a few adjustments along the way.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Chili Chocolate Custard Pie</span></b></div>
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Sugar cookie crust:<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ingredients:</span></b><br />
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened<br />
1/2 cup sugar<br />
1 egg<br />
Another 1/2 cup sugar<br />
1 teaspoon vanilla extract<br />
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour<br />
2 tablespoons cocoa powder<br />
1 teaspoon cinnamon<br />
1 teaspoon baking powder<br />
2 tablespoons heavy or whipping cream<br />
<br />
1) Cream together butter and first amount of sugar with a mixer.<br />
2) Add egg, the other 1/2 cup sugar, and vanilla. Mix well. Scrape down sides
of bowl as necessary.<br />
3) Add flour, baking powder, cocoa, cinnamon and cream, and mix until the dough
comes together into crumbly little bits.<br />
4) Form the dough into a disk about 4 inches in diameter. <br />
5) Chill in refrigerator for at least one hour. </div>
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1) Preheat oven to 350 F.<br />
2) Roll dough to about 1/8 inch thickness.<br />
3) Place in a pie plate (9 to 10 inches in diameter). Use your fingers to press
it into the plate.<br />
4) Trim off any excess dough so that there is about 1 inch of overhang all the
way around. <br />
5) Use your fingers to roll the overhanging dough onto the edge of the pie
plate, and then crimp.<br />
6) Use a fork to poke small holes all over the bottom and sides of the dough.<br />
7) Place a sheet of parchment over the dough, and fill with pie weights or dry
beans.<br />
8) Bake for about 20 minutes at 350 F, or until the edges are golden brown and
lacy.<br />
9) Remove parchment and weights, and bake for another 5-8 minutes until the
bottom is brown and delicious looking.<br />
10) Remove from oven and cool to room temperature on a wire rack. You can turn
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<h2>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: windowtext;">Chili
Chocolate Custard Pie Filling</span></b></h2>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ingredients:</span></b><br />
10 ounces bittersweet chocolate chips (I used Guittard dark 60% cocoa)<br />
5 egg yolks<br />
5 tablespoons sugar<br />
1/4 teaspoon salt<br />
1 1/2 cups heavy or whipping cream<br />
3/4 cup half-and-half<br />
1 tablespoon vanilla extract<br />
1 teaspoon chili powder<br />
<br />
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1) Put chocolate chips in a large bowl with a sieve or fine strainer set over
it (it's okay if the strainer is touching the chocolate).<br />
2) Combine egg yolks, sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan, and whisk well.<br />
3) Add cream, chili powder and half-and-half, and, stirring often, bring to
175-180 F on an instant read or candy thermometer over medium to medium-high
heat. (If you don't have a thermometer, dip a wooden spoon in the mixture and
draw your finger across the back. If it leaves a clear path, it's done.)<br />
4) Pour hot cream mixture through strainer onto chocolate. Let sit 1-2 minutes
to melt.<br />
5) Stir well to combine, let sit 5 minutes.<br />
6) Add vanilla and mix well.<br />
7) Pour into cooled pie shell. Tap pie plate gently against the counter to even
the filling out and pop any bubbles.<br />
8) Chill in refrigerator for at least 4 hours, and up to 72. Do not cover the
pie, or the crust will get soggy.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Whipped topping</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ingredients</span></b><br />
1 cup heavy or whipping cream<br />
1 tablespoon sugar<br />
1 teaspoon cinnamon extract<br />
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1) Combine cream and sugar in a mixer. If you don't have a mixer, just put it
in a bowl and use a hand whisk.<br />
2) Whip on medium speed until frothy, then increase to high and whip the cream
to medium-stiff peaks. <br />
3) Decorate! </div>
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I went to three groceries and couldn't find cinnamon extract, so I improvised:<br />
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I dissolved 2 cinnamon candies in 1 shot of 100-proof vodka and whipped that into the cream.<br />
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I am now going to succumb to pie coma. G'night!<br />
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<br />Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-59875699538047286382013-12-21T21:22:00.001-08:002013-12-21T21:22:23.091-08:00Almost a White ChristmasWe got snow on December 20th, but it's all melted already.<br />
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A few more pictures <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/sets/72157638899666066/with/11490341514/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-42125744504239252712013-11-25T23:47:00.000-08:002013-11-25T23:56:29.568-08:00Steampunks at the ParkThe Steamrats converged on Gasworks Park yesterday for one of our big photoshoot get-togethers. Good times were had. Silliness occurred. Also puppies!<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/11040909015/" title="steamrats at gasworks 4 copy by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="steamrats at gasworks 4 copy" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7314/11040909015_60f90c22be.jpg" width="333" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/11041093803/" title="steamrats at gasworks 8 copy by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="steamrats at gasworks 8 copy" height="333" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7443/11041093803_0bb3609fd9.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/11040994016/" title="steamrats at gasworks 25 copy by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="steamrats at gasworks 25 copy" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7308/11040994016_e632671b93.jpg" width="333" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/11040989306/" title="steamrats at gasworks 33 copy by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="steamrats at gasworks 33 copy" height="333" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5482/11040989306_c869e39fb3.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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More pictures <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/sets/72157638028469454/with/11040989306/">here</a>.<br />
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...Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-30052591016734373492013-11-22T16:04:00.000-08:002013-11-22T16:04:20.262-08:00Winter is coming!We had our first heavy frosts of the season this week. I'm not a big fan of the cold in general, but it does make with the pretty.<br />
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...Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-23810092363863585402013-11-15T17:20:00.000-08:002013-11-15T17:20:06.123-08:00What are we going to do tonight, Brain?Just because:<br /><br /><img src="http://31.media.tumblr.com/4e48976cfa9a6a7c0ae9022311204eed/tumblr_mwbtmejfZb1sykpjyo1_500.jpg" /><br /><br /><img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/885d698133cd0dcb692bda756f83f00b/tumblr_mwbtmejfZb1sykpjyo2_500.jpg" /><br />
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...Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-60920289092295468452013-11-11T11:41:00.001-08:002013-11-11T11:42:49.255-08:00Our Dragon BannerI realized looking at the pictures from <a href="http://dbvictoria.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-steampunk-pied-piper.html" target="_blank">my previous post</a> that I'd never talked about this year's big embroidery project here. We ended up not camping out for faire this year, as it was right after we got back from New Orleans and we'd had our fill of being overly warm for the summer, so we day-tripped it instead, and so I didn't get to use the banner I'd made for our campsite. Next year. But here it is - I based it on a drawing my daughter did in art class, a serpentine dragon. Oops! Just realized I need a picture of the drawing! But anyways, I traced it onto some cloth and then spent somewhere between 20-30 hours filling it in.<br />
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In progress shots:<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10804958076/" title="dragon-device-1 by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="dragon-device-1" height="333" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3729/10804958076_002a2487e5.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10805208033/" title="dragon-device-3 by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="dragon-device-3" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7444/10805208033_8599bd078f.jpg" width="375" /></a><br />
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I then finished the edges with some ribbon:<br />
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And then backed it on blue satin:<br />
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Husband has promised me a fancy painted stick on which it will hang, which will hopefully happen before next year's faire, because we will camp out next year so I can show this off, dagnammit!<br />
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<br />Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-58715945278353496812013-11-08T14:17:00.001-08:002013-11-08T14:17:33.698-08:00The Steampunk Pied PiperLast year my wonderful, patient husband took charge of not only my own munchkin but 5 other children of other merchants during Steamcon. This year we decided to coordinate his costume with his cat herding activities, and I made him a Steampunk Pied Pier-esque outfit. I started with an old wool coat, tail'd it, and then covered it in patches using embroidery floss.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10748746584/" title="Steampunk pied piper in progress front by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="Steampunk pied piper in progress front" height="500" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3767/10748746584_42e57b3513.jpg" width="333" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10748713186/" title="Steampunk pied piper in progress back by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="Steampunk pied piper in progress back" height="500" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7419/10748713186_d0321a5aca.jpg" width="333" /></a><br />
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After the first few went on, I asked my husband if he thought it was too much and he told me it wasn't enough. Okay, then!<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10748713866/" title="Steampunk pied piper front by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="Steampunk pied piper front" height="500" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2834/10748713866_235b89463d.jpg" width="333" /></a><br />
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I also made him a hat with gramophone horns coming out of the back that we rigged with a bluetooth speaker so he could wander down the hallways playing music with kids following him dancing. Unfortunately the kids were all much more self-sufficient this year, and the hat turned out really heavy so he didn't wear it much. The only picture I got was after he'd traded it in for his more mundane, non-music playing topper. <br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10546945375/" title="Steamcon V by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="Steamcon V" height="500" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3764/10546945375_915fcf3c9d.jpg" width="333" /></a><br />
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He enjoyed the outfit, though, and that's what counts.<br />
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...Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-9151086052210230972013-11-06T15:04:00.004-08:002013-11-06T15:04:54.933-08:00The Crisco Incident<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Isn’t one of the joys of parenthood the setting down for
posterity the embarrassingly funny things our children do?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think so.</div>
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The Crisco Incident, as it has since been named, occurred
when our munchkin was 3 or 4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was
getting ready to make some banana bread and had a can of Crisco out on the
kitchen counter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My dear sweet child saw
the container and got all excited.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Momma!!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dessert!!!!” and she
pointed to the container.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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She can’t be blamed, I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean, there it is - a picture of a piece of
cherry pie on the label, big and flakey and red.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </div>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10715816375/" title="crisco by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="crisco" height="400" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3710/10715816375_1c4cff11d3.jpg" width="390" /></a></div>
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How my child came to make the connection
between this picture and dessert remains a mystery to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have rather strong feelings about pie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Un-American feelings, some may say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am very much not a fan of cooked fruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pies did not exist in our household, unless
they were cheesecake, which isn’t really a pie, or pumpkin, which is a creamy
puree of deliciousness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Texture is a
huge part of the food experience for me, and cooked fruit is rubbery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And slimey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Slimey is the big culprit here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
do not like slimey food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apple pie in
particular seems to be the slimeiest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bleargh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Un-American!)</div>
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So the connection is a mystery, how my child learned about
pie, but somehow she had made the connection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I tried to talk her out of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
opened the container and showed her the (to me) unappetizing white paste, but
at this point she seemed to think that Mommy was trying to pull one over on her
and that this was really the most amazing food substance on the face of the
Earth, and nothing I said could dissuade her that she did not want to stuff her
face with the whole container.</div>
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At this point, I decided to make this A Teaching
Moment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least, that’s my story and
I’m sticking to it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My husband will tell
you it’s because I have a sick, twisted sense of humor, but don’t believe a
word of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told my daughter fine, she
could have some “dessert” if she ate all her dinner without complaining about
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her plate had to be clean, not one
whimper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She agreed, and I can’t
remember now exactly what I served her, but it was something I’d just spent a
previous dinner arguing with her over how she wouldn’t now eat what used to be
her favorite dish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Teaching Moment,
remember?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am a sweet loving mother.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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She did clean her plate, and I told her to get a spoon out
and come get dessert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She, thinking
herself smart and sneaky, got the one of the big spoons out of the silverware
drawer and scooped herself out a full teaspoon-sized dollop of Crisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She stuck the whole glop into her mouth and
sucked it off the spoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There then
proceeded an extended round of what I refer to as a “cat eating peanut butter
face” as she attempted to chew and swallow a tablespoon of Crisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked her how she liked her dessert, and
she absolutely and completely refused to acknowledge that Mommy had been right
that she didn’t want any Crisco and it wasn’t really dessert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(The husband says this is a sign that she is
definitely my child.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I say it’s a sign
that she’s definitely his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When asked,
our friends refuse to take sides.)</div>
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Being the sweet, loving mother that I am, I told my child
that she could have more “dessert” if she wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She put the very tip of the spoon into the
Crisco and barely got a microscopic dab on the tip, then stared at it for about
5 seconds before putting it into her mouth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She swallowed, and said “That’s enough dessert for tonight, Mommy.”</div>
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“Are you sure, honey?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can have some more if you want.”<br />
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“No, that’s okay, mommy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve had enough
dessert.”</div>
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That was the end of it, and the next day we had a nice
discussion about how what’s on the outside doesn’t always reflect what’s on the
inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bit deep for a toddler, but it
doesn’t hurt to start early.</div>
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The munchkin will be 10 in a few days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the holidays last year some magical
switch flipped in my head and I started grudgingly admitting that maybe all
fruit pies weren’t steaming baked piles of rubbery slime, and actually started
baking some myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I haven’t made a
pie yet that I didn’t personally like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m still up in the air about pies baked by other people.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I experimented with pie making, and
perfecting my pie crust, the Crisco spent a lot of time on the kitchen counter
again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I’ve found that half butter,
half shortening is pie crust magic.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of
course, I had to tell the munchkin the “dessert” story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She didn’t believe me, and during the course
of the story I invited her to try some Crisco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This time she took out a tiny little spoon, one of the ones I use to
serve my homemade boozy jellies with at parties, and tasted a pea-sized dollop.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Children do learn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>See?</div>
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Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-7164170434546025962013-11-05T17:10:00.001-08:002013-11-05T17:10:27.268-08:00I got almost no pictures of my costuming for this year's Steamcon, unfortunately. Friday's outfit was a big hit, though. I did a lolita-esque gender bent Alex from A Clockwork Orange.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10547172683/" title="Steamcon V by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="Steamcon V" height="489" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7396/10547172683_67863e2330.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stoppedmotionphotography/10549495734/" title="SteamCon_20131025105351 by StoppedMotion, on Flickr"><img alt="SteamCon_20131025105351" height="500" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3784/10549495734_ef14b3657c.jpg" width="339" /></a><br />
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...Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5871983388713910303.post-90638738028208508722013-11-04T14:17:00.000-08:002013-11-04T14:18:02.193-08:00Eat Me! The parking lot for my nearest Trader Joe's is full of huge, glorious, albeit poisonous mushrooms. We saw them when we went grocery shopping a couple of weekends ago, and I made at trip back with the good camera a few days later. The biggest ones most glorious had been stomped on, sadly, but there were still plenty remaining.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10604073774/" title="mushrooms 2 by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="mushrooms 2" height="333" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3762/10604073774_47f0b6a99b.jpg" width="500" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10604061515/" title="mushrooms 4 by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="mushrooms 4" height="500" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5548/10604061515_bc9f931ba7.jpg" width="333" /></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10604080206/" title="mushrooms 13 by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="mushrooms 13" height="500" src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2822/10604080206_8975e92b8a.jpg" width="333" /></a><br />
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We also have a large stump in our back yard, after having a dying cottonwood tree removed, and it's developed quite a collection of shelf fungi.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mahariel/10604307623/" title="mushrooms 16 by dbvictoria36, on Flickr"><img alt="mushrooms 16" height="500" src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5516/10604307623_cf195cdc39.jpg" width="333" /></a>Designs by Victoriahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11698231568085886980noreply@blogger.com0