ice cream and cookies!

A great reward for hard work! :) There might be a reason I never lose weight. ;) I need to post pics, hm.

There's a whole series, but this is one of the pics I'm proudest of...
http://pics.livejournal.com/derien/pic/0004e6ft/

This is the long side of the gravel pile, after we'd been shoveling for the first half hour...
http://pics.livejournal.com/derien/pic/0004kqkr/

And this is the short side, with Eor for some idea of height (he's 5'5"),
http://pics.livejournal.com/derien/pic/0004ht1z/g53

Well, he's gone back down to spread gravel for a while longer, and I need to run some errands.

yummers, if I do say so myself...

I made scallops for lunch and then Chicken in Red sauce (http://eor.rulesthe.net/recipes/chickeninredsauce.html) for dinner, and they both kicked ass. :) Eor says it milds out the recipe too much to add corn starch to thicken the sauce, but I really like the sauce to stick to the chicken. Which literally came out melt-in-your-mouth and tasty, I think because I actually let it marinade this time (I started it before I made the scallops for lunch).

The scallops I just sauteed in ghee, with fresh garlic and a little powdered ginger and fenugreek. One of them was orange, and I had to ask about that when I was buying them because I thought maybe it was bad. The young guy called in the older lady at the fish counter, because he didn't know why it would be that color. She said sometimes they get down in a kelp bed and eat the kelp, which makes them taste sweet but turns them orange and sometimes even red.

Aaand what else. I feel good about the amount of work I've done over this weekend. I wish I could have written something, but I feel as though I was almost busy enough to justify not having gotten to that. Except for the fact that I watched an ep of "Spaced," too. Took me two days to get through a 20 minute show because I had other things to do, though! But it was quite awesome and I'm very tempted to go for another right now.