Sunrise

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Sunrise, a few mornings ago.

Very cold today: 1F at six am on the deck, which means that it is probably colder away from the house. The high is supposed to reach the 20s today, but wind chills will make it feel colder.

Recipe Card

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This is a scan of the recipe card I mentioned yesterday, per “Anita’s”:http://anitarowland.com/ request. The rooster and sun were carved by me from clip art. The mesh is from Judi-Kins. Several of us in the swap folded a sheet of cardstock to make our 3×5 inch cards. The top image is the outside, which in the the bottom image has been folded open. The cardstock, which looks almost black in this scan (on my monitor) is a deep green.

Crockpot Arroz con Pollo

I belong to the The Rocky Mountain Inkslingers, a rubber stamping club that meets once a month. This month, we swapped recipe cards, suitably decorated with rubber stamps. For my recipe, I chose Crockpot Arroz Con Pollo, which has become a staple since we first tried the recipe about a year ago. The chicken always turns out well, and the results are fresher tasting than a lot of crockpot recipes, perhaps because the peas are added an hour before serving.

Faux postage card

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Emboldened by my success with the CD burner, I started working on getting my Epson 610 scanner to work with Linux. It now works, although I am not completely sure of which of the many things I tried succeeded. USB scanners don’t seem to have good support under Linux.

I made this faux postage card for a swap last spring featuring cards using eyelets. The base of the card is white. I added a black border with Gimp so the card would show up.

k3b

k3b rocks (almost). This morning, I managed to burn my first CD under Linux. I used an application called k3b, which allows burning CDs and DVDs in a variety of formats. Unfortunately, I was slowed down by k3b being set up to use the KDE desktop environment, so I had to use KDE to run the k3bsetup utility. However, it all seems to be working now under my normal Gnome environment.