First, a shout out to Oklahoma DHS foster child services as living proof that, if you think you’ve seen it all, you ain’t seen nothing yet. What a bunch of sadistic, incompetent, narcissistic boobs they are, from the money grubbing director to the petit tyrant case workers. Really, you all just don’t even want to [...]
The man who’s buying my old place burned my grapevines and raspberries down, I don’t know why. He also burned my white lilacs and my monster bed of thyme, but failed to destroy the wood he intended to burn. The lilacs are coming back, but the grapes and raspberries are dead. Tomorrow I’m going back [...]
One of my most important tasks two months ago was to prune my inherited roses as far down as I could bring myself to prune, but I got busy and didn’t get to it in time and then it began raining – and raining – and raining – and suddenly, the roses took off running [...]
This week has been really busy and today for 2 hours I decided I needed to just smile and laugh. No political news or blogs or what Obama did right or what Obama did wrong or what he’s doing too much of or not enough of. I just needed time to laugh. So, here are [...]
I have been looking for a good “bun” like this forever. It is a nice take-along sandwich. You could add ground lamb or beef and onion or potato and carrot or scrambled egg or something sweet like apricots or cherries or blueberries (and yogurt or cheese) any combination you like that is fairly dry in [...]
Yesterday, I stumbled on a small conference being held at my school. I’d heard rumors about it, but didn’t know when or who or what, just that I wanted to go, which I did, and I wanted to go in part because I always used to go to these conferences until my life carried me [...]
That is what I feel like I have been doing in the last week. I left home for Rochester, Minnesota last week, to visit with my sister and to get another round of opinion from the doctors at Mayo Clinic, and I really do feel like I have been trying to prepare dinner for many [...]
For several years, I’ve debated going back to finish my PhD. After all, I am (comparatively) inches from completion – so why not? Why not indeed.
One of the pleasures of late spring is deciding whether it’s time to snip a few basil (or thyme) leaves for a quick scramble. Everything but the mustard, which isn’t doing well, is coming along nicely. I have blossoms on the tomatoes, the strawberries survived the move, I’ve managed to mow so the wild strawberries [...]
It was all quite unexpected and happened over a negotiating table of pork ribs and :good gawd almighty: No-Bakes. If you’ve been spared the horror that is No-Bakes, you should count yourself among the fortunate. Because I feared my failure to eat them might jeopardize the delicate negotiations, I am now on a sugar high [...]