Tomatoes, the tie-up debate and debacle

I finally got the rest of the [tag]tomato[/tag] trellises built, and all 130 plants tied up, just in the nick of time. One row was getting unwieldy, sending off roots along the stems and clinging to the grass in the walking path.

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To market, to market in the rain

We woke this morning to a cool and steady drizzle, the humidity still fairly thick but the temperature so much lower than all week, that it’s delicious. I made a few much-need phone calls (Hi Jen! Hi Debra! Hi Lisa B-K! good to hear your voices.) It stopped raining so Lila and I got the [...]

What do you get when you cross two tortillas and an avacado?

This summer I’ve worked a regular dish into my weekly lineup: [tag]Quesadillas[/tag]!
Haas [tag]Avacados[/tag] are a buck a piece here lately, and I’m buying at least three a week, and one always makes it into the Quesadilla dinner. It’s not the twenty five cents I paid for them when we lived in Northern California, but it’s [...]

Cool as a cucumber

Yesterday was borderline insufferably hot, especially towards dinner time when I had to light the grill eleventy seven times to get the coals going enough to render the chicken breasts NOT RAW. The breeze died down, the humidity stomped back into town, and I labored over those damned coals for an hour before they finally [...]

Playing with Wordpress

Pardon the wackiness of the site, I’m bored with the old look, waiting for my Wednesday second [tag]job interview[/tag] with the Big Toy Company, and it’s too hot out to garden.
[tag]Wordpress[/tag] is F-U-N!
In the meantime, if you want to read something slightly more interesting, today’s Blended With Salt post is up.

Maybe she means it. Maybe [...]

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