Tuesday after Lambtown

We’re up!  We’re out!  We’re well-provisioned!  Pretty good for a Monday morning.  (And now it’s Tuesday!  We’re provisioning.)
The kiddo and I went to Lambtown on Saturday.  Lovely little show!  It was mostly a kid-directed day.  (Except when I dragged him protesting and crying and whining through the vendor building.)  Sheep dog trials!  Shearing contest!  An alpaca [...]

Snapshot of a good day

Time to take down the Easter eggs hanging around the house.  We celebrate Spring, and spring means painted eggs brought by fertile rabbits.  Very confusing thing, Spring.  But it was more like Summer early this week, and nobody could move or think.  Now we’re back to normal weather, of a sort.  Much more pleasant.  We [...]

Pea Greens and Asparagus

We’re sharing a veggie box and a fruit box with another family.  Last Friday, we opened the box to a pile of pea greens.  And plenty of other things.  Like asparagus.
I cooked a potentially great dinner for myself last night.  Got home a bit late – husband and son ate before I left the office.  [...]

Sapo Verde to me

Sapo verde to me
Sapo verde toooo meeee
Sapo verde to me!
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One of these days, I’ll get the pictures off the camera, and one or two into the blog.
Foggy yesterday, cleared out enough for a beautiful sunset.  The kid said it was desert with water.  The trees’ silhouettes black against the sky were better than the best [...]

Recipe Book, with digressions

I didn’t enter Mason-Dixon’s show and tell – partly because I missed the deadline and partly because I don’t have a box.

I think Mom has a box, a plain metal box for index cards, and it might have recipes in it. I grew up using recipes out of her little red recipe book and [...]