Just a quick post. Went to visit my grandparents last weekend and took a walk in the neighborhood were we played as kids. I was surpprised that city of Kuopio has saved two of my childhood favorite rides: Ukko and sieni. There they are – well maintained and working brought together from two different parks. Two (g)oldies from the 80´s bathing in the October sun together. Sakke and Katja hoi, re-union in ukkopuisto, anyone, no-one, dust?
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I´ve been a lazy ass what comes to recycling glass jars. I´m really good at storing them but today they came really handy. I went nuts in the nut and fruit store and collected all delicatessen for baking and making own muesli. The small baby food jars are perfect size for spices especially the organic spices from ekolo which have nice and colorful etiquettes. Looks so organized what can´t yet say about the rest of the kitchen. Although I´ve been trying to label and administrate our foods in the kitchen but my nature just won´t keep thing on their dedicated places..I find sugar when I remember where and when I used it last time. So it does not really help that the sugar can´s lovely animal label says sugar if the whole can is missing. Anyway it is nice to have a kind of a feeling that you are in charge of the mess and life. It makes living much more tolerable :).
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The bine makes an autumn. Suddenly you can see it everywhere and it makes the dullest houses look like they´ve been dressed for a party. Well partly truth too. Unfortunately there is not one climbing up on our walls but our the neighbor´s garden seems to be taken over by one. It looks so pretty. I think I´ll try to grow one myself too and try to make it survive indoor life – wouldn´t it look great to have one climbing in your bedroom wall..like you are sleeping in leaf hut. Might need to discuss about it still with my kotipunkkari.
Anyway I have heard that bine slowly and gradually eats your wall´s plastering. I don´t know how long it takes, but seems like this plant can grow everywhere and some sees it as not wanted weed plant. I think it would fit perfectly as an urban plant besides its look it would also suck CO2 and other chemicals from the air in the city centers when thinking that it grows so fast and well this up north too. Why hasn´t it been used more widely to depress the cities carbon print? There are many cool attempts to make cities more green in energy use, carbon foot print and in visual sense too. If the walls can´t handle the plant let´s plant it on the roofs then. City of Toronto has their own green roof project but planting on roofs can also be found as a creative way to interact and “do interesting things with the city space” says Dusty Gedge a well known green roof campaigner in BBC Gardening blog. When do we get one dystygedge to update this city´s sustainable house and roof gardening plans into a next level.
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This is a stolen recepie from Time of the aquarius blog. But I have made this pie already twice this week so I think it tells a lot about my sugar teeth and how good the pie was. And it is so silly simple too.
Make the bottom by mixing 150 grams of butter with half a dl of sugar and 3 dl of flour (you can also add little bit of vanilla sugar if you want to). Press the dough in to a form and bake it for 10 min at 200 C degrees or so. Mean while whisk three eggs with 2dl of sugar together and add half a dl of lemon juice (I used juice from one lemon) and grade the lemon skin and add it to the egg foam too. Spread the topping on the half baked pie and bake it for another 12-15minutes, until the pie is solid and wont stick on a fork when tucked in. That´s it. With this pie I think you can earn some points for a massage..at least it is worth trying to.
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