It’s not quite light by 5:45am, but the frequency of exits with tall street lights is increasing. And it is getting lighter. The early part was the worst. I lost count of the number of cars who were not smart enough to keep themselves between the lines. And it’s a 4-lane road. ~~ Just FYI:
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He’ll be in the company of folks whose necks and forearms are not red and who scoop doggie poop into plastic bags where the Dung Beetles will never find it. I’m sure he will have an excellent time haunting the halls that some very interesting people have haunted. I will be going to the Cotton
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Entrant #2 in the Spring/Summer Soup Contest Last weekend we enjoyed a French provincial supper al fresco featuring Creative Cooking French Peasant Soup. (More photos here.) This is a hearty soup, perfect for supper after a day of farm work– and fun to make, too. I especially like collecting items from the garden for the
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lichen their run in the pasture after being cooped up. It was so refreshing to take a relaxing walk this morning, I thought I’d share 25 seconds with y’all. (Be sure you’ve turned the volume all the way up so you can hear the peace & quiet.)
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and this little patch of lettuce couldn’t be happier. We’ll have a salad of some thinnings for supper tonight. But I’m afraid the corn on the cob and the chicken will be baked, not grilled. ~~ On the other hand, it’s rained all day and the dogs couldn’t be more unhappy. Come hell or high
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Some escalloped sweet potato apple thing with apple juice & tumaric I’ve shirked my responsibilities as a homemaker who eats Big Food, and has a Big Garden and lives a Big Life, and blogs about same. I’ve failed to post several recipes, and I’ve only barely managed to keep up with the food photos. If
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Welcome to Tagxedo, word cloud with styles Rocky. Rocky. Rocky. I don’t want to offend Rocky’s sensibilities by having his name in a smaller font size than Miss that other dog’s. Rocky. Rocky. Rocky.
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We think we have an idea. (How’s that for certainty?) But we’re not sure. First there was just one, then two, then a bunch more showed up. We think that since this is the parking of the Volunteer Fire Department which is located across the street from the Courthouse– where all manner of County
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Mr. Big Food and I used to call our room the “Master Suite” because that’s what it was– a master bedroom sufficiently large enough to accommodate typical bedroom furniture plus my desk that looks out on the shooting range, and a couple of other odds and ends pieces of furniture including the couch and chair
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and the latest security updates to my computer. It’s after 8– well after our bedtime– and I’ve been trying to figure out why I couldn’t log on to blogger– i.e., access my blog– for hours. And it finally occurred to me that I should try to log on using the mi-fi, instead of my phone.
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Bob Owens at PJMedia is starting a series, “So you want to own a gun: Advise for the first-timer.” The first installment begins For those of us who grow up in “gun cultures” where firearms are merely another tool and fact of life, getting your first gun may consist of getting a pint-sized .22-caliber single
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As you may have guessed from the photo-post without captions post, after a productive day of farm work, we sat down to a French provincial supper. French bread. Olive oil infused with freshly picked rosemary. It’s not French but you work with what you have. Wine. French Peasant Soup. Fruit and cheese. Cognac. I thought
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Good night.
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brought the sweet potato slips! I’ve talked about this before but I’ll recap here. The folks at one of my favorite seed companies, New Hope Seed Company just north of Memphis, work with a local sweet potato farmer to make slips available to New Hope customers. The slips are shipped, via USPS, to you when
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since I posted photos of the dogs. Here you are– Rocky has grown board* with the raft. The raft has a long history on the pond. Rocky drug it up to shore and had fun with it for a while, but now it’s old news. Missy found something. My guess is a meadowlark nest. I
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but the subject of this post is my response to my friend’s comment on this post. My friend says, Two thumbs up. I don’t care who does what, but I certainly do not like being disparaged for what I have chosen to do. You tell ’em, M!! And so I will talk a lot about
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If it were not such a busy day, I’d drag out a bunch of crappy old stuff in response to the stay-at-home Mom dust up, but it’s a busy day for this here homemaker. And so I’ve gone to the archives. (Excuse the differences in formatting. I’m just copy/pasting straight from old posts.) The Meal
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The standard way to understand how old your dog is in people years is 1=7. Thus, a seventeen and one-half year old dog is 17.5 X 7 = 122.5 years old in people years. (Yes, Suzy is still alive as I write.) This ignores a lot of developmental biology (and breed variation). A better– although
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Last evening I posted about the chance of frost tonight. Here are the predictions as of a few minutes ago, (with yesterday’s forecast for tonight in parentheses) : Wunderground——— 37 (37) Accuweather———— 41 (51 LOL!) The Weather Channel– 39 (39) NOAA——————– 37 (40) I note that there is no hazardous weather alert form NOAA. Despite
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Background: FIRE is the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. From its Mission Statement: FIRE’s core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them. Several weeks ago FIRE released its list
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