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July 2008
American Poor
You know that moment when you realize that you have exactly $100 left in your bank account, you have no health care, you have no... Read more »The Monastery Garden
Day 3: friends do hard laborGetting down: A lot of the work of making a raised bed has to be done close to the ground.... Read more »The Monastery Garden
Day Two: the building beginsThe pieces: I used my trusty circular saw to cut most of the pieces I need for the center of my... Read more »The Monastery Garden
The plans: I have finally mapped out plans for a monastery garden in my new yard. The yard is big but a lot of it... Read more »It Takes a Bee to See a Flower
Sometimes you can't see what's right in front of you until someone else sees it first. I'm not sure I would have noticed these amazing... Read more »Garden Planning Starts Now
First of all, for anyone who is planning to have a winter garden, now is the time to get the seeds in the ground. Yes,... Read more »Blog-A-Pocalypse
The first thing I would like to do this evening is send PKM the hugest unlecherous hug from me for drawing my name for her... Read more »Kids In The Woods
One of the things I love about kids is that they don't pretend to be shocked by things. A group of kids finds a dead... Read more »Sweet Denial
I have a flood of things to say but nowhere to say them and no one to say them to. I keep writing posts and... Read more »A Tribute To Home Cooking
I don't know what other secrets our friend Sharon has up her sleeve but she is quietly the best sour cherry pie baker in the... Read more »In The Cantina
Otherwise known as Dave and Doe's house where every possible surface has had a rich patina of color and art applied to it. Dave and... Read more »Just You And Me Now
You lay there like a salty bride in tulle froth, waiting for your wintry groom to come and take you away. Away from this perch.... Read more »Spirit of Glass
Life is a circle and my spirit is glass as thin as breath."I am at one of the tables sitting with my wrists facing up,... Read more »In My Other Life
I live two lives, one is my waking life, the other is my sleeping life. I cannot tell you how many times this mailbox has... Read more »Shelling Peas
is the new karaokeCooking for a lot of people is exhilarating when you don't have to do it every day. If I had been a... Read more »Guilty Pleasures
At what point does a guilty pleasure cross the line into a compulsion or an obsession? How strange or dirty does a guilty pleasure have... Read more »What I Learned From Gertrude Stein
There is no aphorism to describe how I'm feeling these days. There is no need to sum life up in abbreviated bits of wisdom. The... Read more »How To Feel Happy Today
Live where the sun has no bite. We're on day 8 of a heat wave. Much of this week has been in the nineties and... Read more »Wheat fields of McMinnville
the food where I liveWheat fields are beautiful. That's a field of food right there. Golden grains shining under the July sun. It's a shame... Read more »Hot! Hot! Hot!
another installment in a summer tale of avoiding debtor's prisonDon't you just want to eat some watermelon in this awful heat?! Well, don't rub it... Read more »Wild Things
One of the things I enjoyed the most about this trip to California was seeing the variety of wildflowers on the roadside in Oregon reaching... Read more »Apocalypse in Real Time
I've come to the conclusion that the man in the "End Of The World" sandwich sign who used to shout out crap while thumping on... Read more »California
bad coffee does happen hereMelinda from Elements In Time wondered why I would complain about the heat wave in Oregon and then run off to... Read more »« June 2008 | Main | August 2008 »