slow quiet snow, this morning
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December 2021
idioms
My good friend Bill’s mother was first generation Italian. She grew up grazing the family’s sheep in the mountains of Northern Italy. She had an idiom regarding the correct way to make Risotto. “The rice must first die in oil, to be borne again in water”. And that is one of the secrets to good
shiny brite ornaments
Glass Artists of Colorado 17 December 2021 A Sears catalog ad from the 1950s for Shiny Brite ornaments. The Shiny Brite story begins after World War I with Max Eckardt, a German born in 1890. “Though Eckardt was from Oberlind, Germany—just 20 miles away from Lauscha, a hub for glass ornament makers—he first trained in
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