shiny objects
Sep. 12th, 2005 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rising_moon* Raspberries. Pint after pint of red and purpling, juicy fresh falling-from-the-cane-ripe succulent raspberries! We picked about a million berries, give or take, and as the little green containers kept filling we expanded the variety of possibilities for their use. Pie, cordial, jam,... and the remainder? Vodka infusion! Raspberries. When all the containers were full and the bright sun cast long shadows we headed back to the farm for fresh cider doughnuts and vegetable-shopping. But the trip back through the canes yielded even more berries. What do do, except devour a few handfuls still warm from the sun? Each soft cluster explodes with tart and sweet liquor in the mouth. Bliss.
* Young's Double Chocolate Stout on draught. Mmmmm...
* Interviewers who say, "you're overqualified for these three, but I'm also hiring for..." and then tell you something encouraging.
* Harpstrings for a dollar each, plus the time it takes to empty and re-sort the spaghetti-tangle of a bin that holds them, minus the counter guy's employee discount because I went to the trouble to do it. I hope Wood & Strings in Arlington makes up in income what they give away in courtesy.
* The gift of clean strings, pure tones and an evening spent at Wood & Strings, courtesy of my Lady.
* Young's Double Chocolate Stout on draught. Mmmmm...
* Interviewers who say, "you're overqualified for these three, but I'm also hiring for..." and then tell you something encouraging.
* Harpstrings for a dollar each, plus the time it takes to empty and re-sort the spaghetti-tangle of a bin that holds them, minus the counter guy's employee discount because I went to the trouble to do it. I hope Wood & Strings in Arlington makes up in income what they give away in courtesy.
* The gift of clean strings, pure tones and an evening spent at Wood & Strings, courtesy of my Lady.