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No makeup. No retouching. No apologies.

This is what I look like in 2010.  On a good day.  Photo taken after a long afternoon spent traipsing around Canal Park and downtown Duluth on a cold, rainy, blustery Saturday in April.

…Instead of holing up in the nearby DECC, where, at the time this photo was taken, I believe the DFLers were on their  second [...]

Swedish cucumber salad a la Farmor Tild

We’ve been getting English cucumbers in our CSA box the past couple of weeks, and they are ideal for this recipe.  Our CSA also supplied the fresh dill and the shallots.

This cucumber salad was always part of Sunday dinners at Grandma Tild’s house during the summer.
I couldn’t find one recipe that was exactly the way I [...]

Red Russian Kale chips

OK, here’s a picture of this week’s batch of kale chips, made with the Red Russian Kale we got in our CSA box.

[Click on the image to see it fullsize]

Probably the first thing you’re noticing about Red Russian kale is that it’s not red.  [Well, the stems are, but for kale chips you cut away the stems [...]

In which my kid’s friends are dazzled by… kale chips!

Tildified™  for your enjoyment,  based on this Tot brand vegetables crate label

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My sons are no longer tots (unless 6’2″  young adults qualify for tot-hood) but they do indeed love leafy greens, especially when those leafy greens are transformed [by a little olive oil  &  sea salt  & roasting in an oven] into crispy chips.

My youngest (the almost-20 [...]

21 years ago today

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Apropos of nothing

Jeez it’s really been a while since I posted anything here.   A hearty  Sorry about that hereby goes out to anyone who has felt neglected or who gives a good goddamn about what happens or doesn’t happen at this blog.

Status report:   everything’s fine, or as close to fine as it ever gets.

The homestead (fabled remote fortified [...]

Vamping

Patience, reader droogies.  Yes, there will be new posts here at Tildology someday.  I promise.    New posts including some new homemade funny pictures  (or at least what passes for funny in my bitter little corner of the universe);   a couple of particularly good Spong Q&As;   the latest developments in my ongoing effort to trace my father’s birth family;   and maybe [...]

Meditation on the New Year, and some other stuff

Snowman Gone Wild

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A New Year’s Meditation

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Uh Oh

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B-Movie Title Screenshots

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Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus as performed by monks who have taken a vow of silence,  from the  monastic order of  St Francis de la Sissies. (PGMC 2007)

The monks’ 2008 holiday performance with the BGMC.

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Oy.  As a participant in many, many performances of  Messiah over the years,  your kindly old [...]

How I Spent My Christmas Vacation

*Sigh*…  It’s so sad.   In a few minutes I have to fire up the Exploder and trundle off to work for the first time since December 23rd.

So, what have I been up to during the past week?  Yeah yeah there was Xmas etc, but other than that how did I spend my days?  Well I’ll tell [...]

You call it photoshop, I call it therapy

I have this entire week off (a rare occurrence) and because it’s also Thanksgiving week I’ve been spending my days racing around from co-op to hardware store to ÜberTarget to liquor store to Costco and back.  But please don’t assume that means there’s an orgy of spending going on.  Nuh-uh.  Many stops but few purchases has [...]