Happy nearly December! Another year sliding by already.
The weekend was cold and exhausting, but successful for us in our musical performances. Saturday our duo played outdoors in a tent near the polo field on the winery grounds we play in on weekends. I had my fingerless gloves and a light suede jacket but not much protection there - it was about 50° out. But we strolled table to table to play, and began the month of Christmas music, and people responded, so we were happy. Fredericksburg is wonderland now with the Marketplatz trees all wrapped in lights and the big tree and German life sized carillon on display. Thousands of tourists line the sidewalks and attend the events we play. Let the games begin!
Yesterday I fired up the new Otto grill and cooked a thick ribeye. We split it as well as a pound of jumbo shrimp, a wonderful lunch. Hubby has his darn sides but that means more meat for me! So I fried the rest of the shrimp in butter for dinner and then an egg with a little cheese.
The steak is different seared with this grill! I seared one in the cast iron pan on Sunday and these were practically like different animals.
This one from Sunday
This was yesterday’s.
Oh and both steaks were sous vided at 129 for 24 hours.
Also shrimp and ice cream:
Friday I made Crack Turkey from the rest of the turkey we brought home - cream cheese, cheese, bacon added to the turkey. No icky ranch dressing seasoning, gross!
The crack turkey got us through 2 days.
Lastnight’s egg was crispy. I enjoyed that.
@FrankoBear I know Billie will be better in no time! Poor baby. Glad resting is her forte!
@Fangs Road trip! Those things are irritating but at least yours was brief. Always good to be home to your own fridge. Seven years! Yes!!
@Shinita interesting talk on genders in languages. Always entertaining identifying the genders of objects in Spanish too! Your rabbit looks nice. Dad and Grampa raised rabbits and we ate a lot of them as kids in Iowa. Yummy with gravy!
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At least the car battery will be charged. Walking in the cold rain in the dark forest is already not fun but doing it for 3 days on the same week… Alvaro doesn’t need that to feel miserable, he has unusually annoying workplace experiences this week (and it’s quite bad to begin with, very selfish bosses, very dense coworkers). He can use the bicycle (still no gears, we really need to call the man…) after rainy days only when there is frost. And not on rainy days.
But at least no rain. And definitely not sleet. Maybe snow, that’s fun. If something MUST fall… 
No bracked fungi today, it’s almost shocking! They are everywhere but not where I was looking today, apparently. But it’s fine, I saw a bunch of small young ones last time, they were cute and striped as bracket fungi so often are. I like the odd colored ones and the color changing ones a lot too. There is a cortinarius (a huge group, mostly with toxic members if I remember well… the one I am talking about is edible) that is already very pretty with its reddish/purplish cap and yellow flesh but it turns very dark (I think purplish) blue when cooked 
I like the super tiny ones too especially the bright colored ones but the brown tinies can be quite pretty and just adorable too. I always had very few mushrooms I liked for their taste, specifically but it’s even less since carnivore. Herald of the winter started to come out lately, I love it as it looks great, bright white except the cap, we call it “frost resistant snail mushroom”. I am into names more than usual lately. English has all those berries, German too while we gave each their own name… Almost. We do have some “-berries” but very very few. Like rosehip, that is “lace berry” when translated.
i think it was because i had two hard boiled eggs after meal… at least i think it was due to that. I have felt weak and tired all day today which is annoying because i was feeling great yesterday. I went back to bed for an hour or so this morning and haven’t done a thing all day. I had turned heating off yesterday as the temp had risen above 0° but through the night i had to put ot back on… that was just prior to throwing up, i went so cold and was shivering. Had to put it on again just now 4.15pm as i can feel the temp drop again and it will be about -3° tonight and for next few nights.
