After 60 days more or less without a drop, it’s finally raining in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Lots. Buckets in fact. I’ve been spending the afternoon making a Provencal beef stew from a recipe in Cook’s Illustrated. This is one of those all day affairs that fills the house with good olfactory entertainment while it cooks slowly.
Reminds me in many ways of the very long experiments that I used to conduct during my thesis work–where I’d drive back through the snowy weather to the lab around 2AM to finally develop the autoradiograms on a protocol that had begun early the previous morning. I’d be barely awake as I would stumble into the darkroom–but then of course, there was the first look at the results…and that, like a slowly cooked dinner, was always worth it.
Jim
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