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WTF Should I Make

My buddy Nicole just shared this link on Facebook: What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner? Just the name of the site alone made me click through, but I was happy to discover that they have an I-don’t-fucking-eat-meat option, and that each snarky suggestion links to a real recipe. Fun, and also helpful—after a […]

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Red Rose Removal

So, yesterday I wrote about this mystery rose that appeared in my backyard. It’s pretty, but it looked stupid next to my red brick house. I contemplated moving it out to the side of the garden shed, but that would require me to actually think about backyard landscaping, which I’m just not ready to do […]

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A Few More Photos

I’m using some of the photos I’ve taken for this blog in an altered book this week, and I needed a few more of this spring’s additions—so, since it’s still to wet, cold and grey to garden today, I thought I’d shoot a few things: From the new purple beds, dianthus (above) and purple autumn […]

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My First Vegan Cookbook

I was at my local Goodwill yesterday, and found a whole rolling bin of books marked 5 for $2. In the bin was a copy of this book: The Teen’s Vegetarian Cookbook is a simple guide to easy vegetarian eating, put together for high school and college students. There are lots of really simple recipes, […]

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April Bloom Day

To make up for the totally lame Bloom Day post last month, I photographed everything in I could reach today. Some of the stuff blooming is in beds that can’t be walked into yet, because they’re under construction, being watered daily due to new plantings and/or not mulched.. In the backyard, bolting cilantro, which is […]