Our air conditioning at home is fixed (more accurately, a new unit was installed). And not one moment too soon: one heat waves breaks and another begins. The weather has been brutal for a solid month, maybe longer. I guess that's what summer is now. I just can't be outside as much as I would… Continue reading Hot Cloistered Summer
Tag: clover
Symmetry
I'm a little more than halfway through Shirley by Charlotte Brontë, and this week I got to a part where the narrator described the month of May 1812 in Yorkshire: The early part of that May, as we have seen, was fine, the middle was wet; but in the last week, at change of moon,… Continue reading Symmetry
A few minor announcements …
MY CSA SHARE STARTED FOR THE YEAR!! Just trust me on this: Slice up a raw radish and eat with high-quality salted butter. THESE ARE TWO DIFFERENT COBBLERS! Weekly fresh strawberries have been a dream: Last year we ripped out the backyard sod and seeded a non-flowering clover, to fill in the lawn (after mowing… Continue reading A few minor announcements …