omg brilliant

All good choices! We had a big pot of scarlet runner beans from Rancho Gordo at Thanksgiving, and they were spectacular. And I pretty much lived on Puy lentil salads this summer.

IDK TNY maybe I'll reënter your MOM

I am roasting vegetables (acorn squash, beets, turnips, carrots, brussels sprouts), cooking a pot of scarlet runner beans with little orange sweet peppers, and macerating the apples and thawing the rhubarb for pie. I'll make the wild rice pilaf tomorrow while the ham is warming through.

Ah okay! I just finished George Sand's Horace, which is the *other* novel featuring the barricades of 1832 in its climax, and has a fallen woman who gets a happy ending, a Saint-Simonian grisette, the President of the Bouzingots, and the comeuppance of a fuckboy.

The ones I ordered on clearance from Able that do not fit me are extremely well made, but their non-clearance prices are quite steep.

(Also remind me to bring out The Pants next time I host or attend a party; they're nice pants and someone should get some use out of them.)

Are you looking for general local color, or specific topics? And what era? I have an extremely random collection of links and pdfs for things I've researched for fic, tho mostly focused on the first half of the 19th century.

Fanlore has it! fanlore.org/wiki/Lord_Ki.... The link from there to the 2005 LJ discussion is working for me.

I do call my dad's cousin L. my first cousin once removed. But that is because L. is a terrible person and I don't want to claim a closer relationship.

Going to Philly this weekend with Spouse! We're going to hear a violinist we liked last year at the Kennedy Center play Sibelius and eat at our favorite vegan restaurant.

I have many vegetable recipes, hacks, and suggestions and am always happy to share them if you would like.

Jo Walton's Among Others has magic that works this way, or at least has speculation about magic that works this way. There's a hypothetical example about how wishing for a rose could retroactively cause a chain of circumstances leading to someone dropping one from a passing plane into your hand.

FUCK, I'm so sorry.

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I had to dismiss myself, because all of the feds went home before any of them were actually delegated the authority to dismiss the contractors.