Mine is not seven days long. But four ain't bad at all. I took today and Monday off, so I could bracket my weekend retreat nicely and stress-free. I'm cleaning up around the house and in the yard, and after lunch time, I'll take off for Santa Cruz, where I will spend the weekend a half dozen intrepid NaNoWriMo veterans. Rob found us a great house on Black's Beach, and we'll write and write and eat and drink and have a good time.
Don't let me forget to pack my Bundt pan, the flour sifter, and the zester. The Food Librarian declared Sunday Bundt Cake Day, and who am I to protest? There were several votes for the Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Lime Glaze, so that's what it'll be. It also meant that I could snatch limes from my neighbors' tree as I dropped off the winter seedlings on their patio table: purple kohlrabi, shelling peas, broccolini, and a cluster of spindly leeks that were tested and declared edible my Ms. Maia. Her thinking seemed to be that it looked close enough to cat grass. I may plant more leeks for her. Good on her for eating her veggies.
Random trivia tidbit: a Bundt cake in German is called a Guglhupf [Google-hoopf].
The bundt cake looked delish and the surroundings even better. Good on you for getting out with the NaNos and putting some words down. And how lovely that the kitty likes leeks. I shall ask her how she prefers them because I'm still sorta at a loss.
Thank you for the German lesson even though there's no ö in it ;)
Posted by: finny | Nov 16, 2009 at 12:29 PM