I’m attempting the cheese thing again this year. I say “attempting” because I haven’t been overly impressed with my previous attempts. Yesterday, I made parmesan cheese. I tried doing the same thing last year, but parmesan is supposed to age without wax and mine got all moldy and was rendered inedible. I haven’t had any mold issues with the cheese that I have waxed, so I’m going to wax the parmesan and see how that goes. I’m also going to make manchego cheese and a batch or two of cheddar. Hard cheese has to age for a while so I won’t know the results of my efforts any time soon.
prozac: day 1
Buster started taking Prozac today. It’s going to take a couple of weeks to build up his dosage so we probably won’t be able to tell if it’s working for a bit. He was kind of a pain in the neck this past week (when he was on a very small dose of his old medication), so I can only assume/hope that we will see an improvement soon.
frankenstein: prodigal son
This was a book written jointly by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson. I was a little wary at first given my disdain for the co-written James Patterson novels, but I was pleasantly surprised to find the novel very Koontz-ish. That said, there was nothing new going on in this book, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. I find that distance makes the heart grow fonder in my relationship with Dean Koontz’s books. I start to get bored with him if I read too many too quickly. That said, I will be reading the next book in his Frankenstein series next. So, I’ll probably be good for a while after that.
My rating: 3.5/5
the end is nigh
The end of winter, that is. I just worked out my 2014 gardening schedule and things kick off on March 10, which is mere weeks away (granted, the gardening events will be taking place inside the house, but gardening is gardening). Take that, snow.
v-b day
We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day, but when we do, we celebrate it as Brian’s birthday. We had lasagna, a Caesar salad and a nice bottle of Valpolicella for dinner last night. Later in the evening, we watched Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy much to my chagrin (the guys picked the flick). I knitted while we watched the movie so not all was lost.