Canning – a direct experience of the abundance of summer (gratitude #38)

September 22, 2008

It’s that time of year, the Ann Arbor Farmer’s Market is a study in abundance, and my summer reading, Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, has inspired me to can. So, I took a perfectly good Saturday and Sunday and made two trips to the Farmer’s Market, a trip to the [...]

Out on a limb – a friend helps rescue me from myself (gratitude #37)

September 13, 2008

I like computers. I have worked in IT since before I left graduate school. I’m comfortable around really technical people: software developers/coders and the like. I am usually careful to say that I know my way around technical folks, but I’m not technical myself. I have an iPhone, I use my laptop wirelessly at work, [...]

A seed inside a peach pit

September 6, 2008

So, today I got a 1/4 peck of peaches at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market. I wanted to make something with them, wasn’t sure what. A year or so ago, my brother-in-law put a tiny bottle of bourbon into my husband’s Christmas stocking, and it’s been sitting in our liquor cabinet ever since. I decided [...]

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