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Summer
Tonight, after coming home with bags of incredibly, fresh produce from my CAS, City Fresh I whipped together a Potato and Corn Salad that was delightful. The corn, was the best I’ve had in years. I purposefully picked the long skinny ears, knowing those would be less starchy. (I’m really not into starchy corn. Yuck!) They…
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Looks to be a good tomato harvest!
I don’t know if its the fact that we’ve had the hottest summer on record in many years, the driest year, or the results of Stan and I’s application of alpaca manure but my garden is looking tremendous this year! We’ve already harvest several eggplant, I have peppers ready to harvest my basil…
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City fresh, how I love thee!
I love my CAS. I don’t know why but picking those veggies off that card table, putting them in my self brought bag and bringing them home brings me joy every time. Today I grinned broadly knowing I was going to try bok choy for the first time. I could have bought it a hundred…
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Nest Update
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Domesticity
Yesterday, was one of those days when I was so contently domestic. I baked bread and rolls, sifted together a pancake mix, and made chicken stock. (Fortunately, after a terrible mishap last week while making bread this weeks turned out terrific.) The pancake mix was a new attempt and I’m sold. We’ve had pancakes for…
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Nest update
I can’t tell you the joy this nest has brought me. I check in on it a couple of times a day. The thing that is particularly neat about this robin family is how involved the father bird is. I often see him there with the Mother feeding their nestlings. This picture isn’t great, it’s…
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Family Fun-
Tom had a more flexible week last week, so we took advantage of it and headed to the Children’s museum for the first time. Scotland was mostly entranced by two different ramps they had, but I was impressed by the assortment of activities available. He’s still a bit young for some of it- there’s a…
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Garden thoughts
This week has been glorious! The last two days have been in the 70s and the sun has been brilliant and intense, like it hasn’t been in months. The grass is greening up and the trees are budding. My daffodills are getting ready to bloom. The morning is orchestrated by birds. I saw my first blue…
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Plenty
I love this season, when my window sill looks like this: and I bring in basil like this:
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Garden 2011
Sorry to bombard the blog with posts today. I’m way behind. Despite my lack of attention, the garden is coming up nicely. Last year, I drew out a plan, spent months nurturing seedlings, and meticulously planted each plant. This year I had no plan, I never transplanted my seedlings from their original seeding trays so they…