So after all the hemming and hawing, we celebrated a pretty classic Christmas. We did some indoctrination: read our 3 yr old The Night Before Christmas, encouraged him to leave out some carrots and cookies for Santa. We did up a stocking for him. And we did the limited gifts for everyone else. In the [...]
This year I’ve backtracked from last year’s hard line no-gift policy. I’m not really sure what motivated it, but I’ve basically gone back to making or buying one thing for each member of my nuclear family. In spite of the fact that the gifts are pretty humble, I’m afraid that I may have broken some [...]
I have a love/hate relationship with eucalyptus trees. Hate because: -They shade my garden -They drop poisonous herbicidal oils that suppress other, competing plants (my garden, native plants, etc.) from growing -They drop reasonably heavy branches everywhere with very little notice -They make parts of San Diego appear forested Love because: -They grow large and [...]
I love leeks, and they can be surprisingly difficult to find at the various markets I usually go to. Growing leeks from seed, (and not loosing those skinny little things in the fray) was one of my 2011 winter garden experiments. I had tried (and failed) the year before, when I had trouble with germination, [...]
It was too rainy in San Diego to see the lunar eclipse… instead I celebrated the eve of the shortest day of the year by cooking up some winter squash. I had a lot of residual pumpkins around, and I never feel quite ready to part with them on the first day of advent, when [...]
Staying home with a sick kid has its downside. I feel like we’ve been glued to each other for three days now, and it’s made it hard to shower, exercise, wash dishes, and obviously, go to work. On the positive side, though, it’s not often these days that I get to sit down in front [...]
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