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Yay! My Mod Sampler Quilt Along is finally complete! I call it "Traffic Jam".
Thanks so much to Elizabeth of Oh, Fransson! for sharing this fabulous pattern and her quilting knowledge.
Nashville was all traffic jams, which isn't how it used to be. Nashville used to fly, with a sinuous kind of traffic flow that let everybody go crazy and weave all around each other in their big pickup trucks. But then again, the neighborhood this piece of freeway is passing with all its condos-in-vitro popping up used to be empty, too.
Nashville is growing fast. I'm not above admitting that we occasionally watch The Bachelor television franchise, which features a lot of trendy-but-emotionally-damaged young people trying to find love in the middle of cat fights, and an amazing number of these trendy young people come from Nashville. Or, I should say, they live in Nashville after having moved there from someplace else. So here's what I think is happening. I think Austin with it's Weirdness and its perpetually sold-out SXSW rituals has played out, and has absorbed the last cool person it can handle, so Nashville has become the Next Austin. All the cool kids want to live in Nashville now, and the city is growing faster than it can handle. According to the U.S. Census, 601,000 people lived in Nashville in 2010. In 2020, the number was 689,000. That's a jump of 14.7%. I think this is something that's only beginning. I think in the next ten years, Nashville might see growth comparable to what we saw in Austin over the first decade of this century or Las Vegas in the last couple of decades of the 20th century. If you're into land speculation, buy your Nashville rentals now!
Editor's Note: I never much liked Nashville. I think it's evil.
Walking past the cars stuck in traffic on my way home after work... makes you feel sorry for them...
De tornada de la feina, caminant devora els cotxes atrapats a l'embós... et fan sentir peneta i tot...
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Manufacturer: Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co. Ltd.
Bus Model: Yutong ZK6119H2
Route: Cubao, Quezon City - Batangas City Pier via C5 SLEX
This is another one of those OMG-MAKE-THIS-YOU-GUYS recipes. My mind is blown by the sweet, spicy, tangy, sour, deeeep flavor of this jam. I cannot imagine anything better than a grilled cheese with a good bit of this secreted inside. (ETA: Yep, best grilled cheese ever.)
I made a triple batch of the Sweet n' Spicy Tomato Jam and used just one of these killer jalapenos in it. That was plenty! I also added the ginger called for in the second recipe because tomatoes and ginger are awesome together.
I was unsure of the acidity of my tomatoes, since they were big lovely sweet heirlooms, rather than paste tomatoes, so I added a good 1/4 cup more bottled lime juice than the recipe called for, and an extra Tbsp. of vinegar, because the bottle was almost empty. The flavor is glorious.
Upon rereading the recipe, I don't know what the heck happened to the sticks of cinnamon I put in there. They must have disintegrated. ??? Huh. The cloves went into a spice bag and I did remember to take them out. :P
Triple the recipe and more than an hour of cooking (probably more like 1.5 hours) gave me 3, 8 oz. jars.
This is the second recipe I've used that didn't call for peeling the fruit (the other is the roasted plum sauce) and I think I would in both cases next time. In this case, they just don't look awesome in the sauce, and in the other, they're a little chewy.
Albemarle County PD motorbull taking his second ride down the timed cone course.
Charlottesville, VA / June 13, 2015
University of Virginia PD motorbull taking his second ride down the timed cone course.
Charlottesville, VA / June 13, 2015
Snow disaster in Kiev. Some trams from Podol depot were jammed in the snow on the Nizhny Val St. This is third day, drivers still looking after them
Herndon PD motorman guiding his hog through the practice cone courses.
Charlottesville, VA / June 12, 2014
Jamal offers his amazing skills as a massage therapist in Eugene, and I for one am very thankful he lets me be part of his club...
He was a great sport one day last Fall when I had my camera...