It's catching up with me

[rabidsamfan]

I think I may have damaged my little finger. (On the left.) It hasn't felt right for days and now it just stays swollen. Not painful most of the time, but with occasional spangs to remind me that I am not invincible.

The new apartment is cold. After all that hot weather, the temps have dropped, and I haven't yet figured out the furnace. Thankgoodness for heated waterbeds. But my nose is sniffly, and my asthma has given me grief all day today. The first meal cooked on the new stove (chorizo, made by a local market) sprayed grease in every possible direction -- including to the ceiling -- and while it tasted good it's revisiting me now.



Rereading the journey south and realizing how very seldom Tolkien gives us any clue about what sort of foods they took along. Except for lembas of course. And so many of the meals were cold ones! I'm thinking deer jerky, pemmican, and whatever they might find in the way of apples and berries. Aragorn and Legolas had to have gone hunting or foraging some of the time. Either that or they had bags of holding. One pony just can't carry a month's worth of food for nine guys who are working very very hard. Especially not when four of them are hobbits -- and we know from the book that hobbits can eat a prodigious amount of food. Its not just a matter of six small meals here...

Does anyone know of a website where someone else might have done the work of researching hobbit/traveling cookery for me? I already have a possible source for hearth/campfire cookery, but I'm looking for what kinds of ingredients I can get away with.

Comments

New homes

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

Well, every new place comes with faults. Why else would people sell or rent it? But I do think they should take the liberty of warning the people destined to live inside.
At least the stove ~works~.

*intake of breath* The waterbed is heated!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>:)
*jumps on heated waterbed*
*turns on furnace for you*

Re: New homes

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

I don't think they understand the furnace either. The landlady inherited the place from her mother recently, and had never been inside it until March of this year.

You do realize that waterbeds don't bounce very well, don't you?

*provides mop and vinyl repair kit, and wanders away, shaking head*

Re: New homes

[luv2hobbits.livejournal.com]

O.


*repairs waterbed but stupidly begins bouncing again*