When I had a little money, I put it into restoring the columns of our pergola. (The book budget was unaffected, Erasmus or not.) Later on, when I had a little more money, I put it into replacing its roof -- not a fancy one like the one on the pergola in the picture, but a simple, modern roof of lexan sheets to keep the rain out.
We sat under the pergola today and discussed Thoreau and Walden. Because these are troubled economic times, and every penny counts, we ate a simple meal of mostly Thoreauvian foods. vgqn made a classic hasty pudding, and provided bread and cheese and drinks. Donya made a bread with rye and cornmeal and molasses, such as Thoreau described baking himself. spikeiowa brought red wine and cheese and bread. I found a sweet black muscat wine such as someone -- not Thoreau, who refused to drink because it required money, and he didn't want to become any more dependent on money than he had to be -- might have drunk in Concord in 1845. One might think I could have found a Concord Grape wine, but I didn't have one in the cellar;
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We sat under the pergola today and discussed Thoreau and Walden. Because these are troubled economic times, and every penny counts, we ate a simple meal of mostly Thoreauvian foods. vgqn made a classic hasty pudding, and provided bread and cheese and drinks. Donya made a bread with rye and cornmeal and molasses, such as Thoreau described baking himself. spikeiowa brought red wine and cheese and bread. I found a sweet black muscat wine such as someone -- not Thoreau, who refused to drink because it required money, and he didn't want to become any more dependent on money than he had to be -- might have drunk in Concord in 1845. One might think I could have found a Concord Grape wine, but I didn't have one in the cellar; ( ... )
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