This Is Why I Have Been Absent From The Blog

This has been a super-busy week.
We had a load of prep to do at work, and at home, we had to get our butts in gear, and get our ducks in a row and all those cliches, because we were going to be inundated by grandparents, grandparents and more grandparents, all coming together in […]

How Green Was My Garlic (Scapes)

Sometimes I cannot get enough of garlic; I think it is probably my favorite member of the allium family. I use more onions by weight in my cooking than I do garlic, but that is partially because garlic manages to pack a healthy wallop of flavor in a very small package, compared to onions, so […]

Pork & Nail Polish: Two Great Tastes?

So, I was on Salon the other day, reading Broadsheet, which is their blog on women’s issues, when my eye was drawn by the headline: “How do you sell a pork chop to a woman?”

I clicked on the link to Copyranter’s coverage of an ad that appears in the current issue of Martha Stewart Living […]

Midweek Kat Blogging: First Steps and Lots of Words!

Not only has Kat been eating fresh strawberries with great glee today, she also took her first several unassisted steps, out in her garden, while she was playing amid the pea gravel and rocks!
Yesterday, she helped me plant sunflower seeds, and today, while I was planting echinacea, monarda and galliarda, morning glories and nasturtiums, […]

Weekend Cat Blogging: What Are The Feline Citizens Up To?

What are the feline citizens of our home up to these days, now that the King of Cats has gone to his castle in the sky.
Well, if these photographs are any kind of evidence, they are napping.
As you can see, Grimalkin has a very strong sense of irony by the book she chooses to […]