Toothpastefail
I dearly love my wife. Among her best qualities — and it’s a long list — are things like boundless energy and a Pollyanna-like…
June, 2013
Under pressure
In this, our fourth year of food preservation, I’ve finally found the nerve to try something that has long given me the heebie geebies:…
Aha!
Normally when a camera comes out, my pasty Irish self scurries like a cockroach in sunlight. But when Mutual of Omaha asked us at…
Sauer power
Only worked a half day yesterday, so what did I do with all that spare time to relax? That’s right. I went on a…
Herb-an farming
Fed up with an ugly strip of eroding land in our back yard, last summer I gathered every rock on the property and created…
Presto pesto
With more food in the crisper this week than we could possibly eat, including lots of fresh carrots, I began looking for ways to…
Strawberry sorbet*
Included in Saturday’s CSA pickup was a bag of weird green leaves I didn’t recognize. Being stupid adventurous, I ripped off a hefty chunk…
Zen and the art of sewing machine maintenance
For weeks, one of Brad’s toiletry bags had been torn, sitting on the bathroom counter daring me to mend its slick, rayon-y material. Finally…
Pleased to mead you
Traveling through Colorado last month, I was shocked at the number of restaurants that offered local mead by the glass. Too bad each one…
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