From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Besoaked

August 28, 2009

It’s been raining nearly non-stop for the last two days, and the temperature won’t get over the mid-sixties. I’ve got dozens of tomatoes I’m dying to pick but they just sit there on the vine: plump, green, and tempting. The very picture of refusal. I spent a morning working in the garden at Good Fatherers [...]

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Get out of that chair (and get down on the ground)

August 28, 2009

It’s easier to feel wonder when lower to the ground. Reminder of childhood must be. Whatever it is, gardens just look better when they’re about to swallow you.

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belee dat

August 28, 2009

I watched the Biggie Smalls biopic “Notorious” last night. The Girl said it was amazing so I had to see it. Plus that “Note- Note-, Notorious” clip in the trailer gave me goosebumps every time I saw it so of course the movie must be amazing am I right or am I right? Trailer producers [...]

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Fat Blog

August 23, 2009

I forgot to pack my swimsuit for our visit to Courtney’s parents, and talk of the pool started up and I started backing out. My shorts, you see, were a bit tight thanks to the summer of travel food and happy happy 4-martini evenings watching the recommended 30 Rock (I miss my Arrested Development) and [...]

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Vegetable Porn

August 23, 2009

There’s something especial about the turn my sublimation has taken this late summer, something especially dramatically vegetable. It’s no surprise that tomatoes have got me breathing heavy thanks to my falling down the heirloom rabbit hole last late summer. But now it’s spreading. Tigger melons I bought last week just because I heard their siren’s [...]

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Little Shop of Horrors: Garden Full to Burstin’ (not Ellen)

August 15, 2009

It’s mid-August and things are really heating up around the garden. I’ll pick my first ripe tomato tomorrow, I’ve got more cucumbers than I can deal with, and the pumpkins and gourd vines are threatening to swallow the house. Despite all the shade I stupidly failed to foresee in the back yard, I did manage [...]

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Kaffir (Thai/Asian/Wild/Makrut) Lime – Citrus Hystrix

August 15, 2009

A word to the prospective Kaffir Lime shopper: don’t buy yours from Logee’s Tropical Greenhouses (my fault — I didn’t read that it came in a 4-inch pot, so ended up paying close to $20 for a 2-inch tall tree that won’t fruit before my children set me out on an ice floe) or from [...]

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Twenty-Seven Degrees of Separation

August 13, 2009

My mother and I ground a sober shuffle into the treatment center’s accountant’s office (she shuffled, I more limped) to pay another’s room and board. After some small talk and paper slinging, the bald fact of the sequestration made itself completely hairless: “This is where I ask for the money, she said. I pulled out [...]

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