Last week, I noticed a couple huge cherry trees on the edge of a park that on my route to work. The fruit hung down in racemes like chokecherries, and the ripe ones were very black. I had never seen a chokecherry tree that big (25 feet or so), plus the tree had rough and shaggy bark (chokecherry usually has … Read more
Dekalb sent me this article about orphaned wild hedgehogs who have taken to a cleaning brush as a surrogate mother – a DIY hedgehog, I guess you could call it. I don’t know if I should weep because they are so cute or because it is a bit sad. Well, at least they found something that’s comforting. I had a … Read more
I was very excited a couple weeks ago when the black raspberries (aka black caps) began to ripen. They sell frozen black raspberries at Trader Joe’s for filthily cheap, but I generally like picking the local ones and, in any case, the local ones seem to have a slightly different and more complex flavor. So, the day after picking a … Read more
… but the black raspberries along the bike path have finally begun to ripen and it would have been a sin not to stop and eat them.”
I finished this churn-dash quilt at the beginning of the month for my friend Tanya’s baby. It’s the first quilt I’ve completed in a while. I guess I was doing too much remodeling. It’s probably obvious, but I only piece with scraps!
Michelle Obama puts a vegetable garden in the White House lawn. At 1,100 square feet, it’s a lot bigger than anything I could handle, but apparently she’ll have help.
I am glad to report that I am finally done processing the 250 pounds of apples that Dekalb and I picked a week before my birthday. (I am sure that Dekalb would like me to note here that they were all free or he wouldn’t have found any thrill at all in harvesting them.) This is what 250 pounds of … Read more
I like the taste of a good beer but, going down, the alcohol feels like musketballs dropping into my stomach. So I’m stuck drinking Guiness Kaliber (0.50%), which is really quite good — like drinking pumpernickel bread — but not offered at many bars. The New York Times had an article a while back about a new trend of low-alcohol … Read more
In this article in The New York Times, several of my favorite subjects intersect: bicycles, hoarding, mental health, and Canada. Do read, especially if you need encouragement to register your bike with your local municipality, buy a better lock, or pursue justice in the case of a stolen bicycle.
Wisconsin has received it’s long-awaited bad news: the emerald ash borer is here. We knew it would happen. We knew it had probably already happened. It was just a matter of time, and a confirmed siting. But all will be well. Steven Spielberg has a new action movie coming out in which Tom Cruise rids North America of emerald ash … Read more