A room for the whole family

It’s a good thing I started off my weekend with a list but no expectations. What I meant to be a cleaning and seed sorting/winter sowing extravaganza turned into a freelance catch-up, business website development and living room painting marathon. The photos I took of the living room came out terrible, so I won’t bother [...]

How to be while doing

My gardening to-do list is starting to grow again and I’m attempting to look at it with quiet enthusiasm and to pay attention to the pulse of trepidation that beats just one layer down. That thump, thump, thump is my Overload Radarâ„¢ (Angelina, this trademark’s for you…and you’re welcome to use it anytime you like) [...]

And so the weekend begins

Can I get an amen and a hell yeah?! I didn’t sleep in too long, up by 7:15 to pay some bills and get thinking on the week’s menu/shopping list. A small pot of oats is simmering on the stove with chopped almonds. I’ll add blueberries from the freezer and a spot of the last [...]

Flat Italian beans

I gave myself a little mental break and boost yesterday after I had completed 11 of the 42 items on my to-do list by gawking at vegetable seeds from Italy. I have developed a taste for the flat Italian style beans that you simmer long in butter and stock after sautéing a bit of pancetta [...]

I don’t know what to title this

Gale-force winds began to buffet (I first wrote bugger, then backed up and corrected it, but bugger? really?) the house sometime around 2am. The air leaking in through the edges of the windows smelled like spring, just like it did all day yesterday. My body felt so confused when I went out to pick up [...]

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