Sometimes, I feel like my garden’s not cutting it. I still have to buy tomatoes, and it’s heading into August soon. The aphids have discovered my brassicas. My only peaches obviously have residents at this point.
But, then, I make myself lunch from the garden:
Today, I had fingerling potatoes sauteed in butter and chives with a [...]
Tags: chickens · cooking · garden
*Yes, I know it’s not the year 2000. It’s always called that. I don’t even think it started in 2000. Portlanders, eh?
This weekend was the annual pig roast that my neighbors throw. It is always quite an event and has come to mean that we’re in the peak of summer. This year, I supplied buckets [...]
In penance for my political digression in the last post, I took extra pictures.
The other day, I filled my gas tank, and it cost me $50. I drive a 4-cyl. Toyota (when I drive anything, which isn’t much). The oil companies are making RECORD profits, and all our government can come up with [...]
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WARNING: This has nothing whatsoever to do with gardens, food, or chickens.
I’ve been an Obama supporter from early on. I was impressed with his willingness to step up in his first term to oppose the war and stick to that position. I was impressed when he started actually making nuanced statements about race relations and [...]
Tags: rant
Let the girls out this morning to pick out our 12th egg. That’s an even dozen and probably as good a place as any to stop reporting on the subject. For anyone interested, they’re still tiny– 34 g.
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