Wednesday Morning Muse
Standing out in the backyard with my morning coffee as the sun rises, it was still. There was absolutely no breeze stirring, an unusual occurrence for here, at least lately…Cool
Continue readingStanding out in the backyard with my morning coffee as the sun rises, it was still. There was absolutely no breeze stirring, an unusual occurrence for here, at least lately…Cool
Continue readingYesterday I had to swing by the Post Office to drop off a couple of Netflix returns and ran into the local “teabagger” protest…All 100 of the…maybe. All I could
Continue readingI have a confession to make…I just discovered Marion Nestle and her blog Food Politics. I know, I’m slow on the uptake sometimes. I find that my feelings about food
Continue readingReading the news this morning, I saw this short spot: Marion Nestle went to see Food, Inc and she gives it two thumbs up. I’ve only seen clips and heard
Continue readingIt seems that every where you go online these days you read the same thing…At least from anyone of a certain age…People are thinking and planning to garden their way
Continue readingLooking on the weather wunderground, I see that Fred is still feeding the woodstove and wearing the multiple layers of clothes he was lamenting in his essay. While I am enjoying the open door and the porch rocker, Fred is still dreaming his summer weather dreams.
Continue readingMy reading on the web keeps coming across a common thread…It’s that over and over in blog posts and comments people are talking about buying seeds and starting to raise
Continue readingWhen I was born in 1952, there were 203,000 farms in Iowa, only 11,000 fewer than when my dad was born in 1926. By 2002, the number had dropped to
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