Friday, July 07, 2006

New Cards


My Friday is jinxed. Or at least my ability to install new fonts is. Why? It's not a complicated process.

I found an old deck of tarot cards.

I need to purchase some new fabric and more flash cards. I used to have an old set for the Arabic alphabet, but I don't know where they've gone. I did find the deck I got at Huang Shan in Anhui. They have pictures of the mountain and captions like "Huangshan magic world" and "Erect double peaks."

Mark and I inherited a little grill, thanks to Sarah and Joe. Sunday we'll go buy some charcol. Anyone have charcol advice?

7 comments:

Jessica Smith said...

why are you buying new fabric? i like your new profile pic. have fun grilling. i miss you.

Joseph said...

Use the kind of charcoal that doesn't need kindling, you can just light it with matches. I think it's called self-lighting charcoal or something like that (though now that I write it out, that doesn't sound right. Self-lighting charcoal?) It's much easier to get the fire going with that stuff.

I don't know if it has an environmental impact worse than regular charcoal. If it does, please ignore my advice.

mike c said...

1)Buy regular charcoal and charcoal lighter fluid.

2)Stack the charcoal in a cone shape.

3)Douse coals with fluid and let it soak for a couple minutes.

4)Spray a little more fluid and light carefully.

5)When the majority of the coals are grey spread them out so they all turn grey.

*It takes about a half hour for the coals to turn grey.

K. Lorraine Graham said...

Thanks for the advice y'all. I will research the benefits of self-lighting vs regular charcaol. I'm all excited about being able to do stuff like...um, smoke fish, but first I have to deal with the charcoal.

RE fabric. I collect it, not as much as you do, Jessica, but I have stashes of it hidden away for the day I get a sewing machine again.

Jessica Smith said...

i don't really collect it. i just drool over it. though after foursquare i will have lots of scraps of various things; i can make a quilt perhaps.

mmmm smoked fish!

Mark Lamoureux said...

The Crowley Deck is the only deck.

kevin.thurston said...

you won't need fluid is you get a charcoal chimney, which i use often. you dump a whack of charcoal in the chimney (they are maybe 18" high) put some old paper beneath it, lite the papers and come back in 20 minutes. then dump-n-grill.

then again, i may be a tad late on this subject.