i made steel cut oats for breakfast this morning. i read an article praising steel cut oats over rolled oats because they have a lower glycemic index; in other words digestive enzymes break the thicker oats down into sugar more slowly. oats aren't allowed at all on the gaps diet, so i'm going off here . . i still had my bone broth, but i should follow it with an egg and vegetables . . it's just that others do not find that appetizing at 8 am in the morning and since i don't feel like making two breakfasts we go with the oatmeal.
i do really enjoy having oatmeal and apples in the morning with a little bit of melted butter or heavy cream if we have it.
this is lunch! waldorf coop was today so chanda and i headed uptown to our friend's apartment. she has such pretty plates, doesn't she?
my friend always makes the most delicious salads. today we combined nappa cabbage with scallions, cilantro, toasted pepitas, lime juice and a little sea salt. for the soup we sautéed onion, garlic, cauliflower and carrots, simmered it in water for about twenty minutes, and then pureed it.
svetlana had a treat for everyone: ukranian honey biscuits.
hmm . . i can't remember what this says . .
the packaging is always so beautiful . .
the biscuit was filled with a light fig jam and wasn't too sweet, which is why i think i really liked it.
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in class today they discussed the formation of wind, the atmospheric layers of the earth, the jet stream (cold air coming from the poles and meeting the warm air from the equator), the different cloud formations and the coriolis effect:
they've also been working on the geographical fugue at the beginning of each class. here's an example by students at California Baptist University:
next monday is the final day of the world geography lesson block and each student will present his or her work.
lastly, here are two samples of the sheet music for the geographical fugue, written by ernst toch, who was a composer in the 1920s in Berlin, and who invented the idiom of the "spoken chorus:"
lastly, here are two samples of the sheet music for the geographical fugue, written by ernst toch, who was a composer in the 1920s in Berlin, and who invented the idiom of the "spoken chorus:"
Did you know that this fugue was originally German?
ReplyDeleteCharlotte is doing weather observations every day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon. She is putting together a chart.
That sounds like fun!
DeleteNo, I didn't know! :)
It was performed in Berlin in 1920 for the first time, I believe.
DeleteDid Morgana go skiing?
ReplyDeleteShe did go skiing, but they left early because it started to rain very hard.
DeleteSame here, lots of rain, but snow is in the forecast again.
Deleteha!! I remember looking at the weather on my phone and seeing it snow in Houghton!! Was that this morning? Friday?
DeleteYes, snow overnight, snow now, and cold.
DeleteYes, it's cold here too now, and I'm not used to it . . again!
DeleteWe are supposed to have one warmer day, one colder day, one warmer day, one colder day, etc. Really crazy. I bet that some of the students will get sick then. They are all coming back tomorrow. Our cod liver oil arrived and all children are taking it now. I do hope it will make a difference.
DeleteI had meant to post something on my blog, but I cannot find my card reader. It is somewhere buried under my file boxes and folders here in the living-room. I emptied all seven and threw away half of my papers! A long process. Now I have to put them back into the bedroom. We have a crazy mouse here right now. Julius chased it in the living-room, it hid among the books and then disappeared into our bedroom. We cannot find it there anymore, maybe there is a hole in the wall??? And in the kitchen, we have a mouse that is eating soap in one of the drawers. We put our trap first in the bedroom and last night into the drawer, but we have not caught it (or them). And then those carpenter ants are showing up again, we still don't know where they are coming from. Back to my boxes.
Oh my goodness! It's Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom at your place! :D Julius needs to do some hunting and earn his keep. It would be nice if those carpenter ants were scared of him too. Houses can be so difficult because there are so many small openings. Good luck with it! And congrats on dealing with those boxes. That's not an easy task.
DeleteAnd good luck finding that card reader . . :)
DeleteYes, I am waiting for a new kind of "animal" to appear any minute. No mouse, yet. Julius is knocking down lots of things, but not getting the mouse/mice! I did find the card reader and got rid of the contents of four file crates! Everything looks so orderly now . . .
DeleteJulius is doing his best! :) I love that feeling of orderliness after the hard work of sorting and organzing.
DeleteWell, I guess he is trying. Yes, it feels like I have thrown away 12 years of stuff I do not need anymore. Quite liberating.
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