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 | Mid summer breakfast
Posted on Jul 28, '10 1:42 PM for everyone
"Our daily breakfast this time of year. Fresh raspberries from the garden, amazingly good yogurt, a spoonful of grapenuts and for the kid a splash of Ribena black current syrup. YUM..."
| 13 |
 | The heart of summer
Posted on Jul 28, '10 2:30 AM for everyone
" It is one of my favorite weeks of the year. Those last days of July. Such a wonderful month, and it seems to go on forever. It has been summer for a while now, and it feels as if..."
| 8 |
| Some more language ruminations
Posted on Jul 11, '10 1:11 AM for everyone
"Can we please stop calling the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico an oil SPILL? This is an industry-caused ERUPTION. The word spill implies more or less business as usual. A spil..."
| 9 |
| Her Majesty in the pink
Posted on Jul 5, '10 4:08 PM for everyone
"There is a plant I call Her Majesty. Your Majesty when she is being directly addresed. She -this is definitely a lady- is a pink peony that I planted when we still lived in the log..."
| 10 |
| A great day to get some independence.
Posted on Jul 4, '10 2:18 PM for everyone
"Link Happy 4th to all you Americans. The world needs the ideals your republic was founded on. Long may they live. The link goes to a wonderful photo reportage of birds being coax..."
| 3 |
| Hup Holland Hup!
Posted on Jul 3, '10 1:54 AM for everyone
"I am not much of a sportsfan, but we make an exception for big events like Fifa. This fellow Dutch Canadian showed up at the farmers market like this. There are days when it is go..."
| 5 |
| Another Grad, another coast trip
Posted on Jun 30, '10 2:10 AM for everyone
" Son Alex had lost his geology job in the economic downturn, and cleverly used the enforced idleness for some upgrading. He added an intense one-year course in Geograph..."
| 7 |
| Varmints
Posted on Jun 28, '10 8:36 PM for everyone
" I could cry. Really. There seems to be no end to it. I must have lost 20% of potential snow pea harvest already, and every day brings more bitten-off plants. The stinky spray stop..."
| 6 |
| Bless me Flora, for I have sinned
Posted on Jun 20, '10 10:59 PM for everyone
"Bless me Flora, for I have sinned. I plead guilty to Iris abuse. Not all irises have been abused. These tall beauties are pretty happy right now. This little corner gets the most i..."
| 7 |
| COF! COF! COF! Twirling batons and shaking pompoms.
Posted on Jun 20, '10 12:30 AM for everyone
" COF stands for Complete Organic Fertilizer, a recipe by master gardener Steve Solomon, author of "Gardening when it counts". My Bible at the moment.It is like magic dust. Spr..."
| 6 |
| This means WAR!
Posted on Jun 18, '10 1:36 AM for everyone
" In spite of having an early start this year and not going anywhere I still managed to wrest Late out of the jaws of Early. Never mind the details of why and how. But I have gorgeo..."
| 10 |
| George's Lentils for dinner
Posted on Jun 14, '10 11:33 PM for everyone
"Sometimes I really enjoy cooking, other times it's a chore. I am still white-rabbiting outside. Left to my own devices I would just make a huge batch of kitchen sink soup and let i..."
| 4 |
| Project Peters: restoring faith in goodness for one family
Posted on Jun 11, '10 12:24 AM for everyone
"Every day the media bombard us with dire news that can leave us feeling depressed and helpless. Between the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the ongoing tragedies in Darfur, ..."
| 7 |
| Being on the receiving end of help
Posted on Jun 9, '10 12:58 AM for everyone
"Last Saturday I had an interesting experience: being at the receiving end of help and kindness. I am usually more in the helper position, for which I am grateful. But I was at the..."
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 | Violated Dreams
Posted on Jun 3, '10 1:07 PM for everyone
"I am in a state of FURY. One dear to me, in the category of 'daughter/friend' (that is young women who are now friends but who I have known since babyhood), has been working hard t..."
| 8 |
| Being Shiva and dealing with Coyote
Posted on May 29, '10 1:19 AM for everyone
"There are some garden lessons I have finally, painstakingly, learned. The first one is this: Respect Shiva the destroyer as an aspect of Creation. Plant and tend only the best and ..."
| 5 |
| Desktops and knitting class
Posted on May 20, '10 1:58 PM for everyone
"When us girls were introduced to knitting in grade 3 (the boys got to do things with wood) we were given a ball of pale-green cotton yarn and shown how to cast on and "i..."
| 10 |
| Four Boys and One War
Posted on May 6, '10 12:52 AM for everyone
"It is May 5th today, 65 years after the official liberation day in the Netherlands in 1945. The date is burnt into my DNA, like the birthdays of siblings. I am always aware of it.A..."
| 8 |
| Here we go again, slow progress
Posted on May 5, '10 1:20 PM for everyone
"This picture is the daffodils in full glory on April 24. The primroses in between are a bit disappointing. I thought they'd spread faster. The band of periwinkle on the other ..."
| 12 |
| The year we were H & R. Block
Posted on May 1, '10 2:34 PM for everyone
"I wasted the usual sunny hours on the last-minute income tax chore yesterday. In Canada the date is April 30, not 15. It brings things back. The year was 1973. We were living in Fi..."
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