Orchid Tease

I’ve been watching my orchid fill out its buds over the last month. Yesterday, I thought the buds looked full. Sure enough, today, I just see the first lips starting to part. Doesn’t it look like it’s thinking about auditioning to play Audrey?

Where the snow isn’t

After another batch of fluffy white, the snow is getting to the point where clearing a path means cutting between ever higher walls and trying to throw the loose snow onto the dreaded six foot berm. Is it any wonder that my eye is drawn to the odd little gaps where the snow didn’t accumulate?

Boring!

I’m sorry, but today was just too boring to talk about. Ran errands, found what we were looking for, blah, blah, blah. The cold wasn’t all that unbearable. The cats didn’t bother to look cute. Meh.

Shurpa Lagman

On a cold day like this, you have to make quantities of steaming hot stew, and one of my favorites is Shurpa Lagman. It’s a dish from Bukharia, which may or may not be where the legendary kingdom of the Khazars was located, and definitely the kind of stew that could warm a whole caravansery. […]

Who are these guppies?

I noticed before that there’s just too damn many guppies to keep track of. Or there used to be. Now I’m looking at the tank going, What happened to Mama Black? Where’s Speckles and Neon and Tiger Stripe? Or Paint Box? There’s just six girls, all black tails, the Black Sisters, I guess. No it’s […]

How NOT to knit a scarf

First, a confession. I got all pensive and managed to forget the real reason for writing a blog. It’s supposed to be fun! If I’m not interested in something, why would I be interested in writing about it? And why on this earth would anyone be interested in reading about it? It’s just that, well, […]

Why bother?

Looking at another midnight coming up with zero interest in finishing what I had planned to post today. I can’t even claim I has the dumb or the sleepy. Maybe it’s the season. Maybe it’s the approaching anniversary of starting this blog. I just seem to be stuck in the “Why bother?” phase.

We who are about to pie, salute you!

Ugly little suckers, aren’t they? These are Roxbury Russets, delicious heirloom apples that makes it worth haunting the farmer’s markets asking if those russeted apples have come in yet. “Russet” means they have a thick, coarse skin that might even look like scales, but what it really is is armor–keeps the bugs out and the […]

The goldfinch in winter

Well, well, well. There is indeed a goldfinch visiting my hacked feeder. He was a little hard to spot, first because he’s wearing winter clothes, but mostly because he’s only showing up in the morning. Nice to see you, little guy!

ZZZZzzzz-snort!

Fell asleep. Oh wait. Did I post anything today? Ummmm. (rub eyes, massage scalp) Oops, guess not. Do I even remember what I was going to post today? Nope. Forget it. I’m going back to sleep.