This is the first week I haven’t gotten out on a Wednesday or Thursday evening to take pictures of my garden. If you continue on, I’ll tell you why. Last Sunday, I got up admitting defeat. The blight had taken over my tomatoes and my life. I spent so much time on trying to save […]
Archive | July, 2009
The Raw Vegan: Part LXXXIII, Flashback Time
Once again, the hazard of writing one’s life story in real time has come to the fore. I left out some adventures that really must be incorporated so here I go. It was hard to imagine, but the corporation that owned our little hospital plus several others decided to relocate. When I was in Pasadena, […]
My Week: Squeakin’ By
This week was one that didn’t get chronicled every day or even noted. It’s been largely an unenthusiastic week and I think you can figure out why if you have been following my Square Foot Garden updates. There hasn’t been a whole lot about my tomatoes that’s been encouraging. I’ve been searching far and wide […]
My Square Foot Garden: It’s Hard to Give Up
Even though my tomatoes continue to look very sad, I’m still getting some now and then that are solid and taste good so I’m not going to give up yet. For example, here’s one of my Pink German Queen tomatoes (for size comparison, I’ve put one of the large cherry tomatoes next to it). I […]
The Raw Vegan: Part LXXXII, Alone Again
I’ve been thinking (and DS2 would say that’s a dangerous thing for me to do) that most of the chapters I write are about the bad times and there have been good times, too. The other day, I was listening to the Sabbath School discussion group on Pine Knoll and Jonathan Gallagher said something like, […]
The First Awesome Rawsome Giveway Winner!
Two weeks ago tonight, I pledged to give my personal copy of The Whole Soy Story to a lucky winner. The rules were posted on my forum in a public area which gave easy access to anyone interested. Even then, I got comments that had to be disqualified for one reason or another. However, there […]
My Square Foot Garden: Bonus Update, Blight!
I’d planned to wait until my my regular Thursday garden update to share what I’m doing. However, if it works to help save even a fraction of what’s out there, I would feel selfish because I hadn’t posted it sooner. It may not work at all but it may, too. It may well be it’s […]
My Week: A Testimonial to Raw Food
My week started out as weeks do—with Sunday. It wasn’t an extraordinary day. I had my usual (when I’m home) visit with DD. While we were talking, Twinkle got into her Cat Play Cube for, as far as I know, the first time since I turned off the gas logs. She didn’t cooperate very well, […]
My Square Foot Garden: It’s a Sad Hour.
My father-in-law would use that phrase whenever he wanted to express something happening that wasn’t a good thing. He wouldn’t pronounce it “hour”, though. It was “ARE”. And it is a sad are. He knew how to say it correctly but it seemed to be a more depressed statement being mispronounced. Here’s the sad state […]
The Raw Vegan: Part LXXXI, “He’s a Big Boy!”
When I rang for an aide, the one person I didn’t want to come to my room at that moment, walked in. I needed to go to the bathroom. A male was the last person I needed. I wanted a female nurse or CNA. True, the man was taking training to be a registered nurse […]
