Be joyful though you have considered all the facts
I opened my last bottle of ginger soda yesterday. Â It had been in the fridge for two weeks – I had sort of forgotten about it till now. I did open it over the sink… Yeah, blew the top right off! My bottle! And then, when I poured it… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPRJBAxaeAs DH and I finished the …
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3/4 of the carrot bed is still frozen, but the rest yielded this And they’re yummy.
Some days ago I had a chance to run out and pull one side of the hoop house plastic out from under the leftover snow (it thawed some, finally!). It involved breaking up the huge slabs of ice that had formed inside the “hoop sloop” and pulling them out, then draining the melt water. You …
In order of sowing: scallions chives mizuna Evenstar collards rouge d’hiver lettuce Olympia spinach Bloomsdale spinach Mache Champion collards Claytonia Space spinach Red marble onion Bright lights chard Ventura celery Safir celery Redventure celery Dianante celeriac Wintebor kale Russian kale Brussels sprouts Waltham broccoli Krausa parsley rube red New England Aster Giant Winter spinach Cornflower …
Honestly, I have no idea. But I do have a bad feeling about it. Grasping the small window between the bees flying (i.e., warm enough) and the imminent rain, I opened the hive to check on them. It seemed to me that there are even less now than last time I looked. The bees were docile and …
old apple that no one wanted to eat drying above the wood stove silky on the outside crispy in double as sweet old apple soon you’ll be desirable again ;)
Solar eye Today we talked to the tree removal people, and the quote they gave us was reasonable. We’re talking a lot of trees, here: six largish-large oaks (some white, some red), one massive beech and one younger one, and three tall pines. Then there will be stump removal (necessary because we want to plant …
The last month for which I calculated our Riot was August 2010. That was month 22, so the calculation here will include the last two months of our Second Year of Rioting. Our first year’s averages were calculated here, our second year’s averages can be found here. Gasoline. I haven’t been able to calculate in our trip to India (wish …
The last month for which I calculated our Riot was August 2010 (month 22). In the meantime the Riot site has been taken down and bought by a link farm. That means the calculator is gone too. The Riot Yahoo-group has looked into restarting it, or at least putting the calculator up, but it hasn’t …
It’s snowing again, a driving powdery snow that has already accumulated to 2-3 inches. Inside the fire roars, Shubert delights, as does the smell of ginger. I was surprised by how cheap this fresh ginger root was ($1.99 a pound), but then when I started peeling and cutting it, it all made sense. Â This ginger …