Fall’s last call
byToday’s the last day for picking up our fall CSA groceries. It’s more bitter than the root veggies we’ll gnaw on until the spring….
video
Falling for spring
bySomething about yesterday’s soggy, sunny-but-cool day felt like spring to me. And sure enough, when I started tromping through the side yard with a…
Cold hands, warm hearts
byWith so much heavy talk lately about meat slaughtering and ant killing, it seemed appropriate to use tonight’s Monday Night at the Movies to…
Egghead likes his bookie-book*
byOK, so one day I’m gonna finish the dang novel. And when I do, the plan is to hand-make a small batch of copies,…
Food hack: Homemade pepper sauce
byForget Tabasco and Cajun Sunshine. Two bucks worth of peppers and a half hour of your time will produce a sauce that puts those…
‘Place’ setting
byWe’re cheating with this Monday Night at the Movies selection — “A Place at the Table,” a new documentary on hunger in the states….
Monday Night at the Movies: ‘Chasing Ice’
byA former skeptic of climate change makes it his mission to document the world’s fast-disappearing glaciers via time-lapse photography in the documentary “Chasing Ice.”…
Aha!
byNormally when a camera comes out, my pasty Irish self scurries like a cockroach in sunlight. But when Mutual of Omaha asked us at…
Plastic Planet
byBlog reader Callie suggested the documentary Bag It for this week’s Monday Night at the Movies selection, and we were quite happy to oblige. Unfortunately,…