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State of the Garden - March 2014
There's still snow in the garden (this time last year I was planting peas!), but but but...
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Bigelow Prairie Cemetery
I recently had a chance to visit Bigelow Prairie Cemetery in central Ohio. It's an old pioneer cemetery where the indigenous prairie plants have survived. It's totally surrounded by farmland in cultivation since the 1800s, now corn and soy fields (I'm guessing GMO round-up ready stuff at that), so the cemetery is one of a very few places where the ( Read more... ) -
Things which make me go buh
Flipping through yet another holiday catalog featuring festive fair isle sweaters modeled in snowy winter backdrops, it occurred to me that catalog makers must believe cold weather imagery has sufficient appeal all over the country that it's worth loading their Christmas catalogs up with picture after picture of it. Unless, of course, they send out ( Read more... ) -
State of the Garden - February 2012
Can I just start by saying how utterly miserable this winter has been? Yes, I'm probably the only person who feels this way, and I know, last winter was difficult. But right now I feel totally disconnected from the seasonal cycle; how am I supposed to await the coming of spring when it's already been here for months? It's disorienting and really ( Read more... ) -
Today
14 quarts tomatoes
7 pints pear sauce
2 aching feet
1 blister from the food mill
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How to make cookies on a rainy day
How to make cookies on a rainy day on not enough sleep.
- Decide you want to make cookies. Realize you have two *coughmumble*-old egg whites in the fridge, and some slivered almonds you otherwise won't use, and remember there's a biscotti recipe using egg whites in one of your cookbooks.
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Frost
Night of November 2-3 was our first frost. It seems very late.
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