This year I’m nearly two weeks late with my spring tomato seeds, having stuck them in the ground only on Saturday, along with some jalapeños, sweet peppers and Puerto Rican eggplants. We took a quick trip to St. Croix, one of the U.S. Virgin Islands, which disrupted my usual spring seed plans. But it was [...]
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Believe it or not, I’d never been butt-dialed before, although my wife has so I knew what it was. Still, I was unprepared. When I answered my cell phone “This is Bob,” I heard a light, muffled almost-nothing in response. “Hello?” I asked, listening harder. It was faint, but unmistakable: I heard the gentle cluck-clucking [...]
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You forget what real smash-mouth rain looks like after a spring, summer and fall full of heat and drought and dry. This morning we had our memories jogged: It looks like angry gray on darker greenish-gray with a visibility of about 20 feet and sheets of water dumping down, alternated with horizontal rain and down-drafts [...]
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While I certainly prefer that the animals I eat be raised on pasture instead of crammed into factory farms and inoculated with chemicals, the current realities of economics and availability dictate that I still buy most of the family’s meat in the grocery stores. That meat seems to have become noticeably more expensive, but yesterday [...]
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For the first time in, like, a year, we’ve enjoyed adequate rain. It’s cool but well above freezing (except maybe tonight), and small effort has been required on the gardening front other than to sprinkle a little supplemental water on the newest rows of beets and spinach, while coaxing yet another salad from the various [...]
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 Partly Cloudy 86°/66° | Partly Cloudy 86°/68° |
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