Mercury In Retrograde Communication Breakdown

I haven’t felt it this bad in a long time, this Mercury in retrograde wire-crossing madness. Chris and I can’t even have a conversation. It’s as if I’m speaking an alien language and he understands absolutely nothing that is coming out of my mouth. I can’t understand why he doesn’t understand, so I say it [...]

One Local Summer 2007, Grilled Pizza

I needed just a sip of fortification before I got down to business making my first One Local Summer meal. Yesterday was hot, sticky, still, stagnant and stinky. Work sucked the spirit out of me. An iced vodka tonic spritzed me back into shape.

The only thing local in the drink is the ice and [...]

Weekend Wrap-up (in photos)

The peppers seem to be limping along in the face of the slugs and the beetles. They’re all producing tiny flower buds even though their leaves are a total and complete trainwreck.

Nightshade flowers are so, so dainty. Really, I’m going to have more potatoes than I know what to do with, and need to look [...]

To Market, To Market, To Buy Food Again

Lila was ready for our Saturday trip to the market long before I had showered or made my list for the day.

We set out at 10:00, bags at the ready, the air crispy blue and humidity-free, cool and still. Week two had three more vendors and I had a chance to speak with the market [...]

Friday Night

I could…
go out to the garden and…
- build the rest of the bamboo trellis for the volunteer tomatoes
- plant french green beans and burgundy bush beans
- start a few trays of basil in seed starter mix, because the stuff I planted in the garden beds isn’t sprouting
- work on one of the ten writing [...]

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