A wild river runs between two jagged mountains at Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, creating a doorway to a wilderness of glacier-carved valleys and aurora-lit night skies. This vast landscape lies north of the Arctic Circle and has no roads or trails – making for adventurous exploration. Photo by Carl Johnson, National Park Service. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 2/17/16.
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Large boards are spectacular, of course, but small boards can be just as important in a busy kitchen. Most cooks have several cutting boards … and having a pair of small boards to accompany the large counter-top board is most efficient.
Here, there are several small boards which might end up as cutting boards … or might end up as serving pieces. There’s no wrong answer as far as I’m concerned … if the boards make your home a better place, then there’s a smile on both of our faces!
These boards – and about 100 others – will be at the 30th Annual Bakersfield Home & Garden Show this Friday – Sunday, February 19 – 21. For more information, please visit their website, here.
Oh, and just in case you were wondering, yes, Mrs M will be there, too! You’ll find us in booths 454/455.
It’s February, so it’s time to get serious. It’s been a nice couple of months without any events … but those days are gone.
Our first event is this weekend, so these boards were finished this evening in anticipation of a great weekend in Bakersfield.
Which is not something you hear said too often, by the way.
These end grain boards include some very large cutting boards (including a rather spectacular Jarrah & Bloodwood board that my photography simply does not capture) as well as some large chaos boards. These are full size cutting boards of many designs and sizes, so there’s something here for everyone … well, something for 10 homes. Let’s just leave it at that!
Happy President’s Day! A 555-foot marble obelisk, the Washington Monument towers over Washington, D.C. Photo by Jeff Norman. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 2/15/16.
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Wikipedia: Washington Monument
History.com: 5 Things You Might Not Know About The Washington Monument
Colorado National Monument at sunrise. Photo by Richard Briggs Tweeted by the US Department of the Interior, 2/8/16.
Baby black bears are born in the winter and stay in the den with their mothers through the cold months. In spring, the cubs emerge to explore the world and show off their cuteness. Photo from Cades Cove in Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Photo by Steve Perry. Posted on Tumblr by the US Department of the Interior, 2/8/16.
My blog is posting very late today, but it’s not my fault, honest.
My desktop computer auto-updated last night. What does that mean?
When I turned on the monitor, I was greeted with a log-in screen. That means the computer had restarted itself during the night. Windows had auto-updated itself.
And that’s all too often a bad thing. A very bad thing.
Radio stations are often run by Windows computers (but not MY clients!). Those computers will also auto-update if the station is not careful … and that will generally knock the station off the air. Off the air is a bad thing. A very bad thing.
So, when I realized I had auto-updated, I knew I might be in for it today. And I was.
The computer was OK, all in all, except for my browser. I prefer Mozilla’s Firefox, and when I booted it this morning, it froze almost immediately. I re-booted the program, same result. I re-booted the computer, same result. I re-installed the software, same result. Repeat. Same result.
I opened another browser and looked for alternative solutions. News of a wide-spread problem. Tech tips. Clues. I got nothing.
I tried to disable add-ons. No joy. I re-booted in safe mode. No joy. I re-booted the computer … yeah, I kept doing the same exact things. No joy.
I set the problem aside so I could work for a living, accepting that any work on a browser would not be done on Firefox. Interestingly, my work’s virtual desktop, delivered on a cloud, worked fine. And it uses Firefox in that environment which worked perfectly. (sigh)
Back to my problem. Right before I left for lunch, I re-booted Firefox, which immediately froze. I walked away with it “not responding.” When I came back from lunch, Firefox was fine. I don’t know what the issue was that caused it to lock up, but the program needed time to solve its problem. I had to be patient enough to give it that time, and all was well.
Patience is a virtue. And if it was easy, anybody could do it.
