The latest casualty of the heat is my last big squash from last year; it is cooking out in the kitchen.  Of course, I have cheesecake in the oven, too, silly me.  Everything outside is holding up, so far, though I spotted a couple of radishes sending up flower stalks already - I will have to pull a lot of radishes when I get a spare moment.  I had ( Read more... )

    Wow, but it's hot.  The AC at work is not keeping up, not that there is any at home to look forward to ( Read more... )

Well, it seems that most of my ramblings about my weed patch have been lurking behind some combination of 'friend' locks, including the silly picture of me with the giant rutabaga.  As soon as I get the new camera hooked up to the computer I'll repost it along with a picture of this year's garden - that will put an Autumn view next to a late Spring ( Read more... )

I had an interesting thought: I don't go out and exercise because it doesnt accomplish anything.  I walk and don't go anywhere, I lift weights but then put them down.  Dancing makes me feel self-conscious and the idea of going someplace and paying to use a machine to move me in certain ways just feels wasteful.  Yes, I know, I have a problem with ( Read more... )

I have been accused of being psychic.  The conversation has been moving forward, bringing together 'value' and 'worth,' 'time' and 'money.'  Ideas have filtered in about the emotional component of desire, about the price vagaries of retail and the hidden factors in 'cost.'  So what pops up on the Times site but this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/ ( Read more... )

Well, of course it does!  If you don't have enough of the medium of exchange you don't get to purchase whatever it is.  If you have several necessities but only so much to spend (and it doesn't cover all of the total price) then you have hard choices to make.  But when that level of 'enough' has been reached then we have softer choices; perhaps, ( Read more... )

    I noted that it has been awhile since I posted a 'serious' entry.  It isn't that I haven't been thinking and reading, investigating and pursuing interesting ideas, it is more that I haven't reached a point where I want to discuss my conclusions, fears and leaps of fancy.  Maybe it's the time of year - I'm very busy getting the garden underway ( Read more... )

I don't usually have to get out of bed so early on Sundays - only when I want to head over to Wegman's to beat the breakfast crowd.  My first thought, on being awakened by the Scoots early this morning, was that she was having personal issues.  I lay there a moment asking myself if she had been let out late enough last night and did she get ( Read more... )

I wanted to be sure and save a link to this Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/opinion/02aamodt.html?em&ex=1207627200&en=9b5e251258c0b6d8&ei=5087%0A

It is intriguing that people seem to have a certain ( Read more... )

    More in my continuing series about who really makes your food ( Read more... )