Throwing In The Towel

Guess how many pints of pear preserves I got from five pears. Two.

Guess how many from nine pears. Two

Guess how many from eighteen pear. TWO!

What what what? How is that possible?

I cooked them for the same amount of time. It had to be because I used less sugar each time and then had less juice, right? RIGHT? I said some really mean things in my head to and about those pears when I ladled them into jars. I was mad.

You can see the progression of the incredible shrinking pears below.

They still taste too sweet. I GIVE UP.

(Unless someone gives me pears. I'd try again if they were free. Just saying.)

A Delightful Post With No Point

I wrote a different post for today, but it was boring. Unlike this one which is simply riveting.

A friend and I were chatting about photography earlier this week, and he asked me what kind of pictures I like to take. My eloquent reply was that I like to take pictures of "stuff." Luckily, he knew what I meant. I also told him about my numbers project which he called "awesome" and "delightful."

That totally made my day. I'm fairly certain that nothing I've ever done has been described as delightful, and now it's my new favorite word. Well, one of them. I have a lot of favorite words.

(Is it sad that after writing that last sentence I considered blogging about my favorite words? I have about four or five of them. Is that sad that I actually have favorite words? Do you have a favorite word?)

There are 18 more numbers I need to have all numbers between 1 and 50. Off the top of my head, I know where I can get a 19 and a 25, so I hope to take care of those two this weekend. Here's my 16:

I took it in the parking lot of a grocery store, and I also got my 28 in that parking lot. It's a good day when I can get two pictures in the same location.

I Don't Love You, But I Always Will

Have you still not downloaded the FREE album by The Civil Wars? No? Why? It's ridiculously good, people. Go get it here.

This particular song of theirs was featured on Grey's Anatomy last week. If I'm being honest, that brings them down a notch in my book since I don't like being into popular things. But because I was into them before, it makes it ok. So I'm still even.



You can purchase the single of this song from Amazon, too.

And as a side note, I would LOVE it if my hair looked like hers, and I am doing my best to make it happen.

Poetry Tuesday {11.17.09}

It's Poetry Tuesday! Otherwise known as NaBloPoMo filler. If you're lucky (or is it unlucky?), maybe I'll come up with another today to add to this post.

I made this one up on the way home from the library today where I dropped off yet another book I didn't have time to read. Happens all the time (the not reading books part).

Status

Halfway through the month.
NaBloPoMo continues.
Indiscriminate.

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Haiku #2

Tomorrow's post: done.
That's always a good feeling!
Congratulations.

Yes, It's More Pear Talk.

I found out last night that it takes me 90 minutes to peel and cut up eighteen pears. It felt like forever. Maybe it was nineteen pears, but I lost count after awhile. Toward the end, I almost had a severe knife mishap because I just wanted to be done, but thankfully, I walked away with no injuries.

They are cooking on the stove right now, and I hope I get more than two pints after it's all over.

In The Cold November Rain

The weather has been really crummy lately. I'm so over cold, rainy days.

Go Forth and Edit

Photo tips...riiiight. I guess I forgot about those.

Right now you can download Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta for free!

The download expires on April 30, 2010, so you have months and months to try it out.