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Sweet Baby Snap Peas
… and just like that I feel like a garden wizard. Almost. I’m wrapping up a wonderful extra long weekend off from work – of which much was spent outdoors in the sun. After spending so many weekends lamenting, planning, planting, and re-organizing the garden… all I do now is weed and check for more…
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grow baby grow
Please consider this the Garden Progress Update. I almost bought a webcam a few weeks ago just so I could watch my garden all day long. So that’s just a little hint of how obsessed I am with every little damn flower that grows here. Besides the family contest of “First to Fruit” I’m also…
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precious tiny poppy flower
Just last week I was swearing the left third of my garden was a bloomless wasteland. Slightly dramatic but it felt accurate… especially when compared to the bountiful garden that I had imaged and planned. The benefit of being home sick for nearly the entire month of February was that I had plenty of time…
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peony season is back
Oh you beautiful little wonder. The peony. So bright and cheerful. So feathery. So elegant. So lightly fragrant. Also, so damn seasonal. So sad. I didn’t understand the magic of the peony until probably like 5 years ago. I’m not sure what world I lived in. But peonies are just amazing. The house we grew…
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meet my garden
I think I read somewhere in the last year that to garden is to essentially have hope or a plan for the future. I fully believe and embrace this. For the past 4 years, my garden has slowly expanded from 1 tomato plant on my fire escape to a garden that my landlord deemed a…
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5 month check-in
Over the course of the years here, the balance of the posts have been on personal / daily / life updates … versus cooking. In the last two years or so, the swing has been much more towards documenting cooking adventures… and travel. It felt like the right time to chime in with an update…
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If I won the lottery…
I’m not a betting woman. There are probably two main reasons for this. I hate losing and I hate wasting money. All that being said, the Powerball is at $1+ BILLION dollars. I’m just not even sure what one person does with that much money. So, I figured I’d make a list of what I…
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Belated Christmas Post
In my mind, it is still Christmas. That is because I refuse to take down my tree and lights – or get rid of the poinsettias I have around the fireplace. Whatever, I live alone. Eleanor and I still think it’s a win to watch Netflix and gaze at all the lights. Don’t care. This…
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Meet Marshall
I’m a big fan of the Timehop app on my phone. It might be one of the first things I look at each morning as I delay getting out of bed. These days my commute unfortunately propels me a little faster from the covers… and earlier to boot. This morning the app kindly reminded me…
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34 boxes … more or less
I feel like I am going to jinx myself here … But I am feeling very organized for this move. I mean unlike nearly every other move, I have labeled every box and none of them have “random shit” listed as the contents. Yes, some are very random. Please see above as evidence. Specifically the…