Yesterday I was feeling under the weather, so instead of going to the Yule celebration with the Pagans of the Dale group, I stayed home and relaxed.  Well…..kinda relaxed.

I took some time to get some much needed cleaning in, and ran a few really short, quick errands.  Molly was a firecracker the whole time.  She was so excited that it was cleaning day and probably the new toys and perch helped with her excitement as well.

She was hopping from one place to another, supervising my activities and providing some correction if I was doing it wrong….

“silly human dis is how u clean, ima show u how iz done”

So….thanks to Molly, I now have a clean computer desk, and Molly has a clean cage and some new toys and a fancy new bendable perch

And the other birds……they just watched with amusement, played with their new toys, and at dinner time they got warm mashed sweet potato with oats, broccoli, kale, veggie pasta, carrots, corn and quinoa.

Kashi with a beak full of sweet potato

They have really good vegan cheesecake.

Just got back from the Internet Librarian conference in Monterey.

It was a fun trip!  Got to eat lots of good food, but unfortunately I forgot to take many pictures.  Here’s one of the potato gnocchi I had on the first night I got into town.

It was delicious!

Took this picture with my good friend, at a rather sad and dark time for the both of us.  We had just lost a friend and we needed to get out and take our mind off things.  I like this picture because it reminds me that even when things aren’t so happy, there can still be good, if bittersweet, memories.

This has nothing to do with the purpose of this blog, aside from the fact that the friend we lost was vegan, but just wanted to make an entry to say that good friends are the best thing in life!

Made this a few weeks ago.  Very tasty!  I have made it before and I have made a post about it before, but it was a few years ago so I figured I could get away with sharing it again.

Yup….very good indeed.

Vegan cooking and black metal….together at last!

For Easter I got the spring Wellington from Native Foods.  It was so good!

I can’t wait for the next holiday to get this!

I ordered a spring wellington from Native Foods for my Easter meal.  It looks delicious, I can’t wait to try it.

While there, I indulged in a vegan cheese cake.  So good!

Decanted my first (successful) batch of kombucha!  This took a lot longer to process than my first failed batch.  I used the GT Kombucha as the starter culture and their new version must be zapped in some way.  It has grown really slow and is still weak and anemic.  I thought maybe I just had a bum batch but my friend is having the same issue.

It seems to have brewed correctly though, and I probably left it going a few weeks too long….this is a really potent batch.  But it tastes pretty good.

My camera is still in the shop, so I don’ t have any pictures of my St. Patty’s Day feast.  It was a really good Irish strew from Isa Chandra’s new cookbook, Appetite for Reduction.

It was really good!

I wanted to watch Darby O’Gill, as per my yearly tradition, but I forgot that I have it packed away in storage

I did manage to record a celtic song I learned on the harp, called Down by the Sally Gardens.