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Instead, I’ve done the following today: 1.  cook and pickle three pounds of beets 2.  bake a plum crumb cake 3.  fry up a batch of black beans 4.  groom Daisy with the furminator brush for a half hour (we yielded two cats’ worth of hair) 5.  prep a sack of peppers for pickling 6.  cook a batch of Spanish rice 7.  [...]

I renewed my membership with Co-op America this morning. Mostly to not lose my momentum with them. Secondarily because they do good work and have the best of intentions and I want to see them continue to grow; I originally joined them when they were still a good bit smaller and were just [...]

Gah, the painting bug has caught me but good. I wasn’t supposed to, but I pulled out a 16×20 inch canvas yesterday and set to it, in the kitchen. I wasn’t going to do this for another two or three weeks. While cooking a pot of chicken soup with sweet onions and garlic, and [...]

If you haven’t already. I posted about the FDA Globalization Act of 2008 previously. Here’s your chance to get active, eh. In a nutshell, the current draft of the Act spells business closures for most small businesses who move under a certain volume, annually. It is in essence an income stream for an agency that has proven time [...]

That overused phrase about being as busy as a one-legged man at an ass-kicking contest kind of landed on my head like a piano falling out of the sky, yesterday. Busy much? Everything was at standard 33 1/3 rpm during the Mercury retrograde, I felt kind of like some strange slow motion thing happening in the external [...]