Well, I had to get our city somewhere in a header for all the world to see. All things considered... Well, we've been in the international spotlight for a wee bit (about 10 days roughly) due to some hot head pastor with an absolutely insane idea to burn the Koran on 9.11. That's tomorrow, folks. And despite to some not inconsiderable intervention in the form of high ranking officials (including our esteemed {insert sarcasm here} President Obama, General What's His Name in Afghanistan and several visits from the FBI) as well as the local imam, this pastor guy is not sure if he is still going to go through with this since he is now calling the imam a liar and vice versa- I just hope that they are still going to go to New York tomorrow morning to see the planner for the NYC mosque and get the heck out of Dodge. They would HAVE to do this on game day. Granted it's not an SEC game, but it's game day none the less and if someone is going to commit a terrorist act in Gainesville, they could have waited until next weekend when I can get out of my driveway with relative ease and not have to run over Gator fans. Who will likely be running away from campus, but you can never tell with some of them, they may think it's (whatever committed terrorist act) part of the festivities. And maybe join in, if they are too inebriated to pay attention.
At any rate the city is on edge- I can't tell if the yelling outside is from the party house down the street or the action is starting. Some of my friends in outlying areas have been told to make sure they have food, water and their cars are fueled up in case of emergency. I guess us poor city dwellers are out of luck. Lucky me, I have about 2 years supply of jam- if worse comes to worse I can stick a wick in it, light a fire and see what happens. Maybe I should make some really sticky jam tarts and throw them. Not exactly dwarf bread but you get the picture. I doubt seriously anything is going to happen but hey- I can be the infidel with the tomato jam missiles. If Gainesville does become the next Civil War Atlanta tomorrow and you don't hear from me in the next few days, ya know what happened.
Speaking of jam- I bought more peaches as well as raspberries and bananas tonight. And organic cane sugar. One of the clerks at Ward's was telling me she can't digest regular granulated sugar so I bought their organic cane sugar to try it out on a batch. It's a little more expensive but better for you so I thought I'd give it a go tomorrow. If I'm not hurling things at invasive people tomorrow.
Speaking of fruit, I did some interesting research online this week about fruits. Did you know squash and cucumbers are actually fruit? Apples, pears and cherries are part of the rose family? OLIVES are fruit? This is opening up some interesting possibilities, mainly along the lines of orangey squash- heck if you can make pumpkin butter can you make acorn squash butter? And would anyone eat it? I know you can make rose petal jelly but I would like to know where you can buy actual rose hips. And are they perservable? I would be more than happy to experiment, thank you very much.
I have also spent the last week reviewing the Annoying Orange Lady Pasta episode and having the pasta song running through my head. I actually started craving lasagne and HAD to have it last night. Go team!
Well, gotta go. One last defensive item to locate and off to bed. Go America! 'Night all!
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