Found. A Barbie Doll tucked into a fence at the Long Reach garden plot.
What the heck! Art? A political statement? A lost-and-found. I don't know. Probably never will. Such is the randomness of life.
Jessie Newburn
Hah! Arrived home from this-ing and that-ing just in time to catch the tail end of my community's potluck gathering at the gazebo. Everyone had eaten their full, and I was encouraged to eat as much as I wanted.
So I did.
Cream cheese-stuffed mini peppers, avocado toast, blintzes, super-chocolatey little cupcakes, a pie made from a…
I swear: I was just doing a wee bit of grocery shopping.
But then all this other stuff happened.
I was at Whole Foods Friday afternoon, where--of late--I've been buying organic pork sausage on the regular. (Love their loose breakfast sausage.) The strawberries actually had some strawberry-smell to them, so I got a few packs of them,…
Worth every minute of the labor to make this happen! From rusty and crusty to gorgeous and ready for cooking! Read up on the process, watched a video or two; made it happen.
In general, I'd rather ignore a TV show until it's played out, all seasons are done, rumors of a sequel have been squashed, and I can now binge-watch with wild abandon. That's just how I roll.
But when I bought something* recently and got three free months of Apple TV with my purchase, I asked my…
I spent much of the day at the two garden plots my mother and I share. She manages the plots and makes sure plants get planted at the right time, and I'm mostly labor. Today was a day of labor. Lots of weed killing and getting some rows articulated with some nice wood gifted to…
I've seen a lot of dandelions in my life. Countless! I know a "normal" dandelion when I see one. I was weeding in a patch of tall lilies when I saw this monstrosity. This is the length—pun intended—to which a dandelion weed will grow when it is battling for its survival and sunshine amidst a patch…
You know that horrible (horrible, horrible) taste when an avocado starts to turn? Yeah, the one where even a smidge of it mixed in with the rest of the avocado just ruins the whole thing? That!
Well, in a most mysterious of situations, I have found myself with a half dozen perfectly ripe-looking, perfectly ripe-feeling, completely-sans-brown-spots…
I was digging in the back of one of my kitchen cupboards yesterday and moving some things around when my mind said, "I wonder what's in this paper bag?" I opened and saw the spidery-est looking potatoes I'd ever seen, thus answering the question about what was in the bag.
I sighed, pulled them out and…
I grew up--while not in open fields, farmland nor forests--in a fairly nature-based childhood nestled within the relatively safe confines of the suburbs. My childhood was predominantly in Columbia, Maryland, in the '70s, with its miles and miles of pathways, creeks aplenty and many thin slivers of woods abutted by housing developments and neighborhoods all…
Anyone remember Faith Popcorn? My goodness, that woman and her BrainReserve team were sooooo spot on with sooooo many trend predictions. Near prescient!
Small luxuries ($4 cups of coffee) -- one of her predictions back in the mid/late '90s, was considered ridiculous. No one was going to spend that kind of money on a cup of…
In one of my many adventures in the wonderful and wondrous Land of Burning Man, I found myself exhausted, far from "home" (camp) and deeply, desperately not wanting to have to walk all the way back to camp.
For those of you who have been to Burning Man, you know: it's big, especially when so much…