Re: Betting the Family Farm

There is only one water feature in “Betting the Family Farm” by Wenonah Lyon, so the story is quite dry. I like the dry descriptions of events as an alien comes to Earth to play golf. I like the dry reading it got on Escape Pod. It doesn’t even rain in the story. So, for […]

Water may dampen May

What is it with water this month?

Herb Garden

Here’s the corner that I’ve designated as the herb garden for this year. From upper left to lower right, to upper right to lower left, it’s Parsley, Dill, Cilantro, and Thyme. And scallions in the middle, but they don’t scan.

Full rain barrel

If you got wet today, I’m sorry. I set up my rain barrel last Monday, all excited about getting some rain to fill it. Well, we got that rain today. In buckets. In barrels. It wasn’t just a frog drowner, it was a rain barrel drowner. I don’t even need all this water. Everything is […]

Re: Bridesicle

Mira awakens in a cryonic drawer to a hideous situation: Men can pay to have the woman of their choice fully revived, if the woman will agree to marry them. This idea just sickens me. And yet the vivid opening of “Bridesicle,” by Will McIntosh sucked me right in.

Three bees

I still have nothing more to say about the flowers from yesterday. I want to talk about the bees, starting with the cuckoo bee up to its neck in dandelion. Like the birds, they lay their eggs in other bees nests so carefully dug and provisioned in the ground. I’ve seen them before, tiny reddish […]

Cinco de flores

Flowers, flowers, flowers, flowers, flowers, What more is there to say?

Isn’t tap water wonderful?

It’s over. We can return to luxuriating in clean, drinkable tap water. Our friends who live in Cambridge can stop taunting us with how nicely running water gets the soap off your hands. And I learned a few things from the Late Great Boston Boil Order of 2010:

Rain Barrel

Since we don’t have enough undrinkable water coming from the tap, I bought a rain barrel. That way I’m more than ready for Day 3 and counting in the Great Boston Boil Order of 2010. I was so clever, I placed the order over a week ago and picked it up last Wednesday.

Things are squirrelly around here

If you’re dealing with Day 2 and counting in the Great Boston Boil Order of 2010 (aka #aquapocalyse ), hang in there! Not by your back feet, but hang in there! You can deal with this. You can deal with the sudden arrival of summer weather, too. Warm, sticky weather. Maybe we should boil some […]