Alena often posts recipes of different delicious soups and I haven’t been keeping up. I figured I’ll teach you all how to cook a New England Clam Chowder in 3 easy steps. Read more…

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Boris says:
October 30, 2008 @ 10:19

Потрясающий рецепт! Обязательно попробую. Где ты купил New England Clam Chowder can? Я люблю этот суп.

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ufly says:
October 31, 2008 @ 18:40

When I first looked at the detailed directions picture I thought that third step was to call someone. Captured part of microwave looks very similar to telephone with receiver on the left.
And about main topic - I definitely liked your succinct instructions

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Geoff Katz says:
November 4, 2008 @ 14:59

Still no explanation for orange things…you need instructions v.1.2. I’m going to go with mandarin orange slices.

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Daniel says:
November 4, 2008 @ 15:00

This is the only thing that I actually added myself. It was supposed to be cheddar cheese. But I guess the idea was that it was going to melt and it really didn’t. So I advice against it.

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Lina says:
November 7, 2008 @ 14:48

Wow, this whole thing is really funny. By the way, I also thought that the microwave was a phone.

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Sveta says:
December 14, 2008 @ 12:36

That was awesome Daniel!!! Great instructions Keep on cooking!!!

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It took us a bit over a month to do the first car mode. Last Friday, right before our drive to Pennsylvania, we got the windows of our car tinted¹. It’s not nearly as dark as the previous car — 35% on the doors and 20% in the back. It does make it more comfortable inside though.

Poconos в середине осени оказался ничуть не хуже, чем в её начале. Яркие краски и характерный, с запахом мокрых преющих листьев октябрьский воздух, на мой взгляд составляют достойную конкуренцию спелой зелени и тёплому дыханию сентября.

В пятницу я выбежала с работы в 17:03, а уже около шести часов Даня забрал меня возле метро и мы отчалили в наше выходное путешествие. Прежде чем выехать из Бруклина, мы забрали Мишу, купили продукты в местном Shop Rite, ну и конечно заехали за Игнатом. В Mountain Springs Lake Resort мы добрались уже около 11 вечера, по пути очень неплохо подкрепившись в Olive Garden.

Всю субботу лил дождь, и днём было темно и мрачно. Тем не менее я расслабилась и получила удовольствие и от компании, и от домика, и от природы вокруг. Мы дружно играли в домино, чуть менее дружно в карты (Даня и Алина не большие любители Дурака), а вечером в шарады (a.k.a крокодил).

Я целый день что-нибудь жевала — то сушки, то сухарики, то тушёнку, то стейки (мы снова покупали skirt steak и было вкусно), то яблоки, то семечки. Тихий ужас! Днём мы устроили себе “тихий час” — вобщем, хорошо было!

Ко всеобщей радости в воскресенье распогодилось, и у нас появилась возможность прогуляться по лесочку и сделать осенние фотографии. Как же всё-таки там красиво! Небо было синее-синее с очень редкими облаками. Из деревьев мне больше всего понравились застенчиво-красные клёны.

Данька очень хотел найти какие-нибудь грибы, и все пристально всматривались в землю под ногами и шарили палками среди опавшей листвы. Лес нас не подвёл и поделился парочкой очень симпатичных, хотя и вряд ли сьедобных обьектов в шапках.

На одном дереве росли разные виды древесных грибов — по-моему, очень красиво.

Мойша вывел нас к поляне, где нашлись качели, баскетбольное кольцо и мячи. Ребята с удовольствием поиграли в баскетбол. Мне очень нравится осенняя фотография Дани, где он похож на игрушечного смешного лося.

Еще мы заприметили очень красивую гусеницу неторопливо переползающую дорогу. Интерсно, в кого она потом превратится? Меня удивило, что щетина её оказалась жесткой — примерно как щетка для обуви.

Мы прогулялись и вдоль озера, любуясь красочными пейзажами. Некоторые люди катались на лодках по озеру, но лично я не очень хотела бы к ним присоединиться.

Уехали домой мы с Даней, Игнатом и Мишей в восемь вечера, а Маруки оставались там еще на одну ночь. Жалко было уезжать. Эх, если бы это удовольствие стоило бы чуть-чуть дешевле (мы потратили за выходные по $150 на человека), то можно было бы ездить туда почаще.

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Yo says:
October 28, 2008 @ 08:04

Очень красиво

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Tatiana says:
October 28, 2008 @ 09:19

SUPER!

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Boris says:
October 28, 2008 @ 16:07

Молодец, Алена!
Хорошо написала про поездку. Я читал и вспоминал наше сентябрьское путешествие, узнавал знакомые берега на озере, лес и полянку у воды и думал о том приятном времени, когда мы тоже были там.

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Daniel says:
October 28, 2008 @ 17:28

Теперь нам осталось ещё съездить зимой, когда всё будет засыпано снегом.

В этот раз мы захватили с собой своё домашнее одеяло, так что спать было намного уютней чем с обычными многослойными отельными одеялами. Меня Алёна просила добавить запись на эту тему так как она забыла написать об этом сама.

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Lenchik says:
October 29, 2008 @ 02:23

I love how Moisha is not making the tiniest bit of an effort to hold you up.
awesome pics.
very purty colours

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Daniel says:
October 29, 2008 @ 09:47

Well, I have 2 explanations for that. Either I’m so light, or he’s not holding me up!

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More then a week ago Alena and I took a couple of shots of interior of our car during the night with all the lights glowing. One of them is HDR, but the colors are slightly off on it from the true ones. The other one doesn’t show as much detail, but the colors are realistic.

I didn’t want to post them before I had a chance to take a couple of shots during the day time. And we did that today.

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Last Sunday we drove to Philadelphia — the largest city in the state of Pennsylvania. Danya and his dad have already been there on more than one occasion, but for Ignat and I this was a new, uncharted on our personal maps territory.

The City of Brotherly Love is the 6th most populous city in the US. We, however, were more interested not in its modern urban developments, but in the historical landmarks, such as the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Carpenters’ Hall.

The Liberty Bell is a prominent symbol of the American war of Independence. It was used to summon people for the reading of the Declaration of Independence. It obviously is not the only bell used for such purpose, but definitely is the most famous one.

We waited in a short line in order to get into the center where the bell hangs now. It was surrounded by happily smiling to their cameras tourists and for a brief moment I felt like I touched history. It would be cool to hear what the bell sounds like!

Independence Hall, which by the way is pictured on the back of $100 bill, is the place where the Liberty Bell originally hang. The building is known as a place where the Declaration of Independence was created and approved. We weren’t fortunate enough to get inside the building, but appreciated this piece of history from a very close distance.

We walked a bit through the “Old City” district of Philadelphia and saw the Irish Memorial, dedicated to the Irish people who fled from famine in Ireland in the middle of the 19th century.

Before living the city, Danya drove us through more modern districts, but I wasn’t really impressed by anything. After all, all large urban areas are somewhat similar (at least in this country).

On our way back we visited Trenton, the capital of New Jersey. We checked out the State Capitol, which is pretty good looking (we didn’t take any pictures though since it was already dark). All in all — it was a good one-day trip and I enjoyed it!

It hasn’t even been a month yet, but there is already over 2,000 miles on the odometer of our car. Chrysler recommends to have the first oil change done at 6,000, but it sounded just way too long to me. I figured it’s a good idea to get all the break-in particles out of the engine sooner. I used the opportunity to switch to a fully synthetic oil. The car took in 7 quarts of Mobil 1 oil and so far seems to be happy about it.

And yesterday I tested out the built in 0 to 60 timer. For whatever it’s worth it came out to 5.7 seconds, and I guess it’s not a bad result for a car that weights over 2 tons. Also I’m sure it can be improved if done on the track and not on the entrance ramp of I-95.

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Dima says:
October 17, 2008 @ 23:11

Hey Dan.

I found your blog.

It was definitely a good decision to change oil. There is always some assembly lube, etc. in a new engine.

5.7 seconds is good time on the street with an accelerometer. The last time I used Gtech-pro (with an old engine) my car’s 0-60 time on the street was 5.1 seconds. A the track the same G-tech showed 4.3 on drag radials for a 13.0 second run. I’m sure a stock 300C won’t show that much difference but I would expect at least a .5 sec improvement at the track with good preparation.

Dima

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Daniel says:
October 18, 2008 @ 10:30

Dima! Welcome to the blog!! I wanted to send you the link, but didn’t know if you’d care.

Appreciate all the comments! We always love them.

How did you find the blog? Although it seems to come up on many things if you enter Alena and Daniel into Google.

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Dima says:
October 19, 2008 @ 02:29

The blog came up on some Google search I made.

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