If you read my post Apple Antics I confessed to embracing my inner locavore in a whole new and somewhat uncomfortable way. After driving by a neglected apple tree full of ripe apples in an condominium complex green space I summoned the nerve to phone and ask if I could pick some of the apples…
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War-On-A-Cold Homemade Chicken Soup
This spring I contracted the worst respiratory virus I think I’ve ever had. I was relegated to bed except for compulsory errands which I shamelessly did in my leopard print fleece pajamas. Seriously. On one of my trips to the doctor after dispensing a loooooong list of medications, (prescription, over the counter and homeopathic) she…
Homemade Pickled Green Tomatoes
Usually I have more good ideas than time to execute them. This week I have an overfull calendar which did NOT include impromptu rescuing of the garden tailings before the first windy frost, let alone doing something with the proceeds lest they go south on my watch. I’ve eaten green tomatoes once. At the home…
Pillaging the Vine
I think it really is over. It’s cold today. Blustery, rainy with bitterness in the air. The forecast warns of a ‘severe chill’ dipping into the 20’s tonight and for the next few nights. Call it ‘Gardener’s Intuition’ but I think there is no protracting the summer spoils any longer. It would be cruel to…
Last Weekend to Get Pumpkins Before Halloween! Fun Places to Do So!
One more week until Halloween! Do you have your pumpkins? No matter how old you are you are never too old to carve a pumpkin or two. I’ve told you about Loukonen Farm (and by the way had friends go to be met with an equally satisfying experience as mine). There are a couple more fun places…
First Day of Winter Share
I don’t use emoticons. To me they signal the backward slide of written civilization toward the caveman times where the use of stick drawings was progress. I mean really who turns their head 90 degrees and smiles as the colon followed by the right parenthesis depict? HOWEVER were I to use an emoticon (and I…
Matt “the Coffee Guy”: Aurora and 38th Streets (Boulder, CO)
For the last few months as I zip about town in the early hours I’ve noted a few things. One, that’s really sticking in my craw, are the neighborhood apple trees sitting neglected with ripe apples dropping on the ground to rot (tempting me to act like a freak, knock on the door of the resident and…
