Posted in growing challenge, locavore, gardens on May 31st, 2008
It seems like just last week that the garden was a barren patch of dirt and that it would never start to feed us. My how things can change quickly! Pretty much everything is in, even if not up yet. We’re waiting on the pumpkin, squash, cucumbers and pole beans to appear. Plus the second […]
This morning I screamed like a little girl. Or maybe shrieked is a better word?
For the record I am not afraid of mice, growing up on the family farm field mice in the grain bin were a fact of life. But somehow being confronted with one this morning while running late and wearing my dress […]
I’m not feeling very interesting or inspired tonight. But as I was sitting in my favorite seat in the house talking to colleagues in Singapore, I thought perhaps you’d like to know what I see?
The seat is the new couch in our living room, it rests just below the front window which looks out across […]
Posted in recipes, reading, one local summer, locavore, eat local on May 27th, 2008
Lest you think that we’re so busy local eating has gone by the wayside, let me assure you that things are still pretty dang local around here. The garden isn’t feeding us, but hopefully we’ll have lettuce and radishes soon. In the meantime I’ve been hitting the farmer’s markets and the local grocers that reliably […]
Mike and the dogs and I spent a wonderful weekend at our friends Mia and Ron’s cabin on Whidbey Island. Spending any time on Penn Cove is a treat. Spending a gorgeous sunny weekend like this is always something that I’ll remember for months.
For the most part the water was calm, the sun was out, […]
All right, I said that I’d talk about tradeoffs that resulted from our decision to move 15 miles north of where we lived in the city. The most obvious one is driving so we’ll start there.
When we lived in Everett I worked a short 5 miles from home and so driving to work wasn’t a […]
I’ve been thinking about how and whether to write this post for a couple of weeks now. And I think I’m going to go for it - hopefully I won’t offend anyone tonight.It seems that lately there’s been a bit of “I’m more sustainable” or “I’m localer” than you going around the web and media blogosphere. […]
