Happy Anniversary To Us

Today is our anniversary. Sixteen years. We're taking the day off. Tonight for dinner we will hand the kids a cell phone, and walk across the lawn to have dinner SANS CHILDREN at the restaurant you see out our window here. Do they have good food? We have no idea, but we will be SANS CHILDREN, and so it will all taste better.

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Celtic Connections + Brenna = :)

Celtic Connections. It's "Scotland's Premier Winter Music Festival". It's in January. It's in Glasgow, and I'll be in Edinburgh. How lucky can one girl get!

I've already bought tickets to a few shows: Imelda May, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Blueflint, and the Transatlantic Sessions.

If anybody knows somebody else I shouldn't miss let me know. I'll be in my room, picking out my party dress.

Brenna

Black Isle Brewery: Save The Planet Drink Organic

As we write this blog, Bob and I are sharing the last bottle of beer we brought home from our last little road trip. It's an oatmeal stout called the Hibernator -- a dark and chewy meal of a beer and it's perfect for this quiet, rainy day.

While we were in the West Highlands last week we went to the Tallisker Distillery on the Isle of Skye. The kids weren't excited abut it. So we were suprised when Ella said

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Scottish Tablet Recipe Now Available

You asked, and we are but your humble servants. We have added the recipe for Scottish Tablet to the Candy Alchemy blog post. If you try it out tell us how it is.

You Say Porridge, I Say Oatmeal

We've run out of oatmeal. Normally not a big deal, but this was really good oatmeal and we can't get it anymore because the four-hundred year old water mill that made it is closed for the winter. These oats were ground on a big-ass millstone powered by the stream that ran past the mill. We even got to watch the oats being ground and bagged. The miller would scoop them into each bag, carefully apply a bead of Elmer's glue to the opening and hold it shut for a few moments before moving on to the next bag. I'll say it again. It was good oatmeal. The bar has been set very high.

So now we're oatless, as I said, and we went to the grocery store. I left Brenna in the wine aisle

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