And now the song stuck in my head is Taylor Swift’s august. It’s Emma’s birthday tomorrow and mine has “slipped away into a moment in time”. And the rest of August is going, too. Our backyard got finished. Click the image or the link in the caption to watch the video. It starts with me … [Read more…]
After all the tomatoes that I picked and processed the last weekend of August, I went a little nuts and got another 25-pound box of tomatoes that I picked up last Friday. Which was after me and Jasper went to the Wednesday market and bought 10 pounds of tomatoes to make two tomato pies for … [Read more…]
This was going to be “Pumpkin, pumpkin, and kittens”, because I actually made two things with pumpkin Saturday, but only one was photographed: The pumpkin item that was not photographed was Yossi Arefi’s olive oil pumpkin cake, that I was trying for the first time, to take to Steve & Heike’s 40th anniversary party. After … [Read more…]
I started writing this last Wednesday (it’s Saturday now, actually continued on this Sunday, and it’s Monday now) and it was going to be titled “a week (or so) back from TIFF”. But as usual time has escaped me, so I’m going to work on the last 10 days or so that have gone by … [Read more…]
One of Mark’s sayings but seems to be the story of my life now. Or else some other truism about how activity, even reduced activity, like that of say a retiree, will grow to fill all available space. Either way, it’s been almost two weeks since I’ve written (blaming on busyness) and I feel there’s … [Read more…]
On Thursday I picked up my almost-annual 25# box of tomatoes from my CSA. And now, Sunday night, in the freezer, there are about 4 cartons of diced tomatoes, 2 pints of pizza sauce, and a carton of roasted tomato sauce. Last night I roasted two 13 x 9 x 2 pans each with tomatoes, … [Read more…]
It’s the first day of classes at University of Wisconsin today, and I’m sitting at the kitchen counter still in pajamas, doing a little work email, drinking coffee, and listening to public radio which is full of stories about campus response to Covid, including liability waivers and a few words from a student at UW-Eau … [Read more…]
The first week was characterized by heat, tomatoes, and Rach was here. Wednesday was Rosh Hashanah and I made challah. I got my annual CSA 25-pound box of tomatoes, and made sauce and blanched and diced and froze a lot of them and also made four trays of oven dried tomatoes. Rach and I bought … [Read more…]
Last Thursday, the last day of the new online students’ on-campus orientation, I got a big, summer-y CSA box. That’s a few green beans, “silver” and green cucumbers, something like 2 1/3 pounds of tomatoes, bunches of basil and leaf lettuce, an onion two little melons, and 10 ears of corn. After I brought all … [Read more…]
This week felt like the real first week of school. Last week Labor Day made it an easy(ish) 4-day affair. This week was the real thing – not for sissies. Last Saturday Belana got stung by a bee at a cross country meet and had a bad reaction. So Monday my day started with calling … [Read more…]