fava beans rising up like middle fingers…
and all sorts of other helpful creatures standing by…
ever since we moved here our neighbor’s avocado tree has borne no fruit. sometimes i get the suspicion that he thinks it’s not a coincidence. i think (he’s over 80 years old) that he did get fruit these last few years, [...]
here’s how a cat sends a message:
and here’s how a dog receives one:
today’s agenda is to cover everything with chocolate. we’ve got: candied tangerine peels (after eating the inside of a tangerine from Westfield Farms the immediate thought is what to do with the outside), candied ginger (ok, i bought those), bananas (which we’ll freeze and eat as if we’re on Catalina Island), coffee beans (no duh), [...]
it’s bad enough that there’s a note posted on the window of my local bookstore that says (something like), every time an order is made on amazon.com another mom and pop bookstore goes out of business.
it’s bad enough that California hiked its sales tax so damn sky-ward that i want to buy EVERYTHING online, including [...]
a long time ago a fashion-senseless lady advised a friend of mine that wearing stripes as a “wide” girl would only accentuate her wideness. instead of telling her that fashion is how you carry it, not how it carries you, she relegated my friend to the “dark coffin of low self-esteem,” full of oversized & [...]
yay! it’s spring, and while we wait for the bees to finish pollinating the fava beans (planted last December, part of the economic meltdown where we switched from computers to agriculture) we’re putting down our tomato seeds.
we’ve got Costoluto Genovese, Yellow Pear, Japanese Black Trifele and one other. oh and some larger pots of parsely, [...]
bring your eyes slowly to the edge… very slowly, it’s a little greasy…
blink twice…
yup… someone ate yo freakin’ marrow.
