Although it wasn't in my initial post plan, your excellent comments are highly amusing and worthy of note. First: vampires. In my last post I stopped short of commenting on certain holiday figures and their bizarre habits: only showing up at night when we are vulnerably asleep, living in a remote location, leaving gifts while apparently asking nothing in return, and that weird outfit. Thank you, Stan, for breaching the topic, because I now feel better in saying: I wonder if Santa might be a vampire? If you think that's odd, I'd like to note that the History Channel show did have a guest who speculated on Jesus being a vampire, and I wish to say that here in Skiptopia, we are wholeheartedly against that notion.
Additionally, I am intrigued by the jolly container ship captain. I can just see him, with his corncob pipe and Danish fisherman's hat, steaming along with his shipload of goodies. What a wonderful idea! I'll have to consider this further.
As to pirogi economics, this is a highly speculative field, in that no model for the average consumer exists. Currently pirogi are packaged in two-dozen batches, and I can tell you that at the Skiphaus (population 3), two dozen makes a suitable main dish, (served perhaps with eggs, or kielbasa), and one dozen will go for a side dish (served with anything, but ideally eggs and kielbasa). This latest crop was divided thusly: 8 dozen to the Skiphaus, 2 dozen to Stella and the Stella People, and the remainder reside at the Mothership, where pirogi economics get very confusing. Avereage dinner attendance is 4, and 2 dozen makes a nice side dish. But in the holiday-tide the colonials all congregate, and typical pirogi consumption tends to soar: between 4 and 6 dozen as a side dish. The bottom line here is that this pirogi crop is expected to last through the New Year, but not much longer, except at the Skiphaus where I usually lose a dozen in the dark recesses of my freezer, and find them again during the Eastertide, which, with its anniversary/birthday festivities, is a bigger holiday here than at the Mothership. Essentially pirogi making is a huge outlay of work, with every aspect being made from scratch, and generally takes the better part of a day, depending on number of workers. Although pirogi can be obtained from the average grocery store freezer section, they are not nearly as good as the home-made kind, mostly because at home we control the exact mix of the filling, as well as the thickness of dough, thus crafting pirogi specially engineered for our own palettes. The outcome, regardless of the short eating season, is entirely worth the effort, and I say that as someone who has been present at every pirogi making day for the past 27 years, and has helped in the last 17 or so. (the folks who have worked at pirogi making for the last 35 years may have other interpretations).
But what I really wanted to post was that I just finished a very good book: Stiff, by Mary Roach. Go read it today, it was very interesting and very funny, and I think many of you might want to consider composting as an alternative to the traditional burial. I personally believe that after death the physical remains aren't much different from an old banana peel, in that they both were once useful coverings that have outlived (haha) their function, and so I wouldn't mind being composted, or rotting in the trunk of a submerged car at the body ranch. Some of you readers have a very tough decision: have your remains composted, or plasticised for display.
In other news, we visited Zoo Lights last night and it was great, the Widge had fun, we drank hot chocolate and I even went into the reptile house, which many of you won't believe. They have a lovely iguana, a gila monster, and some wonderful tortoises, and many display cases for snakes, into which I did not look. The Widge labeled every unidentifiable animal as "bear": "Look, its a rock hyrax. Do you see it?" "Bear!" "Oh, look, a naked mole rat!" "Bear!!!" and so forth. We did not see any actual bears, and so I ask: have any of you ever seen an actual bear (not panda) at the National Zoo? Anyway, the lights were great, we especially loved the leaping cheetah, and the cow that really mooed.
We also finished shopping for Christmas, and if only I could finish the last few hand-mades, we'd be all done, gift-wise.
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2 comments:
hurray for the zoolights.
so is zoo lights like a Christmas time zoo boo?
The panda bear is not really much of a bear. They use to have the Spectacular Bear! Though I think it was actually called a spectacled bear, which is a little south american bear. Which is its down fall at the National Zoo, or as it should now be called the National Look, these are the animals of Asia and a few cows and such about the edges Zoo.
But fear not, the Zoo in Baltimore does have bears, even of a polar variety. Also if you are on a quest for bear and don't want to wander into the woods go to Chicago. They have a zoo there that has a bear or two(I believe it is free to get into, and if not tell the zoo keeper you are a close personal friend of the bears). Also Chicago has a collection of ex-bears at the Field Museum. It would include the only Mexican Grizzly that I have ever seen, mostly since they are extinct. Finally you might even see Da Bears.
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