Well, this is it. Daughter’s first day in sixth grade, and I must say, she looks very lovely and grown up. It’s bringing a bit of a tear to my jaded old eye.
To honor the occasion, I got up with her early (Good lord, she was rarin’ to go at 5:30 a.m. — she’s worse than the dog. I don’t expect such enthusiasm to last, however) and made her hashbrowns.
Daughter loves hashbrowns but they’re not my favorite thing to make because they’re time consuming and I can never get them to cohere quite the way I want them to. I think this is because I wash the grated potatoes to make it easier to press out the starchy liquid prior to frying (you have to have the potatoes as dry as possible before putting them in the pan to get a good crisp) and without the starch, the patty just doesn’t hold together right. Oh well. Since I fry them in saved bacon grease, they make up for in flavor what they lack in cosmetic appeal.
I’ll drive daughter to school today (doesn’t everyone drive their kids on the first day of school?) and then take the dog for a walk. And then hopefully (fingers crossed) I can get the priming work finished in my office so I can take the plastic sheet off my work computer and commence to working. Later, if I get to Home Depot and get the paint mixed, I may actually get a couple of walls painted. I’m going with a color called “Cinnamon Stick” which is, as the name implies, a nice muted spicy browny-red. Oh, and I’m also thinking of spraypainting the petals of my Ikea hangy-down flower lamp gold. Pictures of office gorgeousness to follow ASAP.
Happy first day of school, everyone.
