An Offer/JMIT Babble

[debka_notion]

(Because I'm a Jewish Mother In Training) I'm noticing a distinct lack of household skills in a number of folks I know, of late- in things that I always thought of as really basic: cleaning, cooking, basic mending (sewing buttons). I feel like I should offer some sort of basic hosuekeeping lessons for a number of my friends. Today I gave a basic demonstration of resewing buttons. As far as I know, this is something I learned from my mother before I started high school, possibly before middle school. Certainly she started me sewing "straight" lines around age 6- it was a real treat too, because we could only sew with her supervision, so when she made the time to do so, it was very exciting. I've been cleaning for longer than that: it isn't hard, you just keep scrubbing, unless you're doing walls or something like that.

If anyone is interested in lessons or the like- aka, chances to get help mending or making pleasing food, let me know.


Outside of that, I had a quiet day- slept in, called home, did work, editted Hebrew: all the usual Sunday stuff. Life continues.

Comments

[belu.livejournal.com]

Squirrel?

Squirrel?

That sounds a lot more like cute than food to me. Like cat. Or child.

(Except I think that some cultures do eat cat. But still, who eats squirrel?)

[debka-notion.livejournal.com]

Also opossum, including the suggestion that one trap them alive and feed them cereal for 10-14 days before slaughtering them to clean out their digestive systems of roadkill and hte like.

But yeah- even if I Didn't keep kosher, I Wouldn't want to eat squirrel. I do have a running set of jokes about them, but not to eat.

THey can be nasty though, and if you've already killed something for destroying your flowers/digging up your bulbs/eating your strawberries, I guess you might as well eat it?