This is Fireplace Face. It was in the new pad when we moved here. It juts several feet into the room and is super-duper wide. If it serves a useful purpose, I am unaware of it. I…
The Day After
This was our table yesterday. It was set to make our guests feel welcomed, to feel important. To feast until we dropped. Our table doesn’t look anything like this today. Today it is, gratefully, clean. It is…
Fishy-Fishy-Fish-Fish
Mister and I have been doing our best to eat a Mediterranean diet this month. We figured we’d be healthy right up until the turkey hits the hot oil on Thanksgiving Day, and so far we’ve been just…
The Gloves
So here’s what happened… I was cooking rabbit for dinner. (Nice recipe, by the way – here’s the link.) There’s a lot of chopping involved. A lot of slicing. And that wouldn’t ordinarily be a problem. But…
The Honeybees
I went to check on the bees recently, the ones I wrote about a while back. I was wondering if the new season had brought any change to the hive, as the Bee Keeper I consulted earlier had…
A Stranger In My House
Yesterday Mister and I were working in the garage. We were both wearing masks (a lot of dust was kicked up), goggles (a lot of stuff was falling from the rafters) and gloves (we have delicate hands –…
In the Garden
The tomatoes have been neglected. At some point, they stopped producing for a while, and so Mister and I just sort of forgot about them. No watering. No tending. No anything. I stopped spraying for pests (an organic…
Being Good Enough and a “Be the Buffalo” Giveaway!
“…If you’re not enough without one, you’ll never be enough with one.” John Candy as “Irving Blitzer,” on Gold Medals Cool Runnings – 1993 It’s November. The very thought of that may send some folks running for…