swans!

This morning as I walked to Alewife along the bike trail I was treated to the sight of a family of swans slowly paddling up the Little River. There were the two parents and three fuzzy little cignets. They were so pretty, and the parents were so watchful and the cignets so goofy it made me smile with happiness at the rightness of the world. It also made me late for work, but hey, it was more than worth it.

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I have no idea why, but i've had such an urge to bake stuff recently. I think I can smell some kind of apple-y thing baking downstairs in catering, and it makes me want to rush right home and start mixing. I have this recipe for black stout cake with whiskey icing that's been just calling to me, and I even have some stout in the fridge. But I have no eggs, and no time to buy eggs, and if I did have eggs I would have no time to bake anything with them. Sigh.