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Garden 2013: A Week Into July And Where Are We? 8 Jul 2013 | 06:23 am
So, there are beans. A patch of soldier beans from Johnny's seeds that should flower and pod, then fade and die before any are picked. Dried beans for winter to be slow baked with molasses and bacon. ...
Garden 2013: Lots To Eat... Including By Rabbits 10 Jun 2013 | 02:35 am
Rabbits. I have seen them around the raised beds out front in the mornings when I head to work. But I had no idea that it had come to this. Beet eating. Frigging cheater pants rabbits are eating my be...
Garden 2013: The Last Of The Parsnip Crop 26 Apr 2013 | 06:06 am
One of my favorite things to do is to not do something. Last year, I planted parsnips, onions and carrots in the square of soil by the front door. The carrots got dug up in early October and the onion...
My Recollection Of Pizzaria Tomaso, 1984 7 Apr 2013 | 05:14 am
So, this was dessert. We made a stack of pizzas tonight. This was the last one. I even have the blister on the back of my wrist where I brushed the hot oven wall to prove it. But apple pizza? Thirty y...
Me From Space As Easter Chocolate Is Found 31 Mar 2013 | 10:41 pm
The Great Lakes from space earlier today. Look at all that good cheddar.
Garden 2013: It's Still March But Planting's Begun 30 Mar 2013 | 08:22 pm
It has begun. A sunny Saturday reaching up towards maybe 7F today. I took down the cold frame that sat out back all winter and found one lone red lettuce plant growing along with a fair number of carr...
Again, The Most Wonderful Day Of Every Year 5 Mar 2013 | 02:54 am
Previous celebrations: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. The snow lays about in dirty lumps congesting into ice before it melts. Baseball is close now. SO close I can watch spring ...
This Month's Storm Of The Century 8 Feb 2013 | 05:51 am
When did being panicked by storms become so common? Maybe its being raised on the North Atlantic but is every big blizzard really Snowmageddon? Nothing too panicky in the Buffalo forecast discussion t...
And Steve Is The Crown-In-Parliament, Too 22 Jan 2013 | 06:15 am
Today's news speaks to some fairly basic constitutional ideas: The Harper government said Monday it will not include Governor-General David Johnston in any future policy discussions with First Nation...
Thinking Back To Blogging When We Was Young 18 Jan 2013 | 07:41 pm
I heard the news about Aaron Swartz like everyone else. And then I heard another way as way back when I started blogging I belonged to the Berkman Thursday discussion group through the Harvard Law Sch...
