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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
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
I lost that entire month. Don't ask me how! Here is how (I think?) I spent September: Cushaws and blooms: Peppermint zinnias in a friend's garden, and chocolate cherry sunflowers in mine. DELICIOUS. My corn was done producing, so I dried the cobs that never got ripe for ornamental use. The old stalks are ornamental… Continue reading September Passed Me By
August is hot and unrelenting; it's also the month I must work outdoors. My whole month is consumed by County Fair: prep, its running, its dramas, take down, and recovery. It's been over almost a week but I haven't even begun to recover. The week before Fair, a dangerous windstorm blew a large recycling can… Continue reading In late summer, I burn out.
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 …