I really like the bike path I take to the library. It’s shady, it’s beautiful, it’s protected from the wind, and it’s full of fruit: Okay, ‘full of fruit’ might be a slight exaggeration. I picked a third of a … Continue reading
Whew, coming in right under the wire for the eighth week of One Local Summer. The amount of local (that is, from-the-garden) food I eat has been going up and up, but I’ve been paying less attention to creating all-local … Continue reading
Ooh, boy. Ooooh, boy. Can you just about taste it? My first tomato is so close to being ripe! It’s a Cherokee Purple, and you can kind of tell how dark it is near the top, on the far side. … Continue reading
A bit of this-and-that today: – It’s Tuesday again! Or it was Tuesday; I guess it’s wrapping up now. Tuesday is 25% off day at the thrift store, which makes it my one day of browsing-type shopping each week. Today … Continue reading
The thread that holds this post together is ‘pretty things’ — or, to be more precise, ‘pretty things I’ve made’. . . or planted, maybe. Like this bachelor button: Aren’t blue flowers great? I remember wondering, as a kid, why … Continue reading
It’s One Local Summer time! And I didn’t have just a salad! I had this for dinner last night: I made cheddar mash with Yukon Golds from the farmers market and cheese from the co-op. You’ll be happy to hear … Continue reading
It’s official. It’s really, really summer — not just ‘hey, it’s kinda warm out’-summer, but true, ‘it’s too hot, stop touching me’-summer. As if the sweat on my brow weren’t a clear enough clue, I was tipped off by the … Continue reading
So, I don’t know about you, but there are a lot of tools and items I often wish I had, but then I think, ‘Meh, I can just use a [blank] instead.’ Every time an opportunity to use the nonexistent … Continue reading
It’s already week six of the One Local Summer challenge! I feel a little bit like a local summer let-down, not because I can’t come up with a local meal each week, but because they all tend to look alike. … Continue reading
Hey, get this. A few months ago I put this tiny seed in some dirt, right? And I watered it and let it sit on the windowsill above my sink for a while, and then I thought, ‘Hey, it’s warmer … Continue reading
