Two Thousand Words

I had just found out, then realized that I hadn’t yet turned the page on the calendar.  So I did.

Whoa.
Here’s what I look like now – the belly has just started, but the top – good god!  Two bra sizes up already, for crying out loud.

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Seedling

It has been so long since I’ve visited my oft-neglected site.  I’ve been just bursting to share the news, that I’ve had to completely abandon blog land – way too tempting to blurt it out…

Holy crap, I can hardly believe it – we’ve got a little seedling on the way!  So far it’s been a [...]

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Rancho La Puerta

Oh my.  Where in the heck have I been?  Yikes.  Well, I’m back.  Again.
Waaaay back at the end of June, I was graciously invited along with a group of San Diego food/gardening enthusiasts to visit Rancho La Puerta in Tetate, Mexico.  It was a true getaway, the kind of one-day trip that feels like a [...]

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Bounty

The first big harvest at our new house (how long can I keep saying that it’s our new house?  A year?  Good, I’ve still got time) happened the other day.  We’ve of course been picking here and there all along – I’ll grab a handful of cherry tomatoes on my way to work, or gather [...]

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Tater Hater

The most exciting crop I planted this year is potatoes – it certainly doesn’t sound sexy or fascinating, but the taters have surprised me!  Because they are hidden throughout their growth process, I had some serious doubts that anything at all was happening.  Sure, plants began to sprout out of the baby reds that I [...]

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Phil’s Phavorites

I turned 30 this year – that’s right, the Dirty Thirty is upon us.  I’ve never been too concerned with age, with birthdays, so this wasn’t a tough one for me.  It helped that my husband whisked me away to Catalina to celebrate – ahh…

I have such fond memories of summer days spent in Catalina [...]

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Puttering

I have to resist the urge to be always puttering in the garden.  There’s so much space left to dig up and plant, so many suckers to pinch and worms to squish!  The pictures in the post below are of our first two veggie beds in the new house.  They’re both packed full – brussels [...]

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Things Are Happening

Words.  Coming soon to a blog near you.

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Easter

We had our first family Easter this year at the new house. It’s not destined to become a tradition right away, because I still love going to my mom’s house for Easter. We play croquet, have good wine and company, and feast until we go into food comas.
I had to replicate some of [...]

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You Can Stuff It

I am always proud of myself when I’m able to come up with a recipe on my own, using whatever I have in the fridge.  It doesn’t have to be fancy or pretty looking, but this one turned out to be both.

First, I boiled some noodles and made a “kitchen sink pasta sauce” with all [...]

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