Summer swimming with Trip and Jenny, Bob’s work-related overnighters to Minnesota, Louisiana, Oregon, Illinois, a nourishing visit with Amy and a tour of her Scavenge Magic naturally-dyed clothing operation, lunch with Matt and Gael, Jordan Lake, the Columbia River Gorge, garden goodness and pest pressure, blazing sunsets, Shaine’s watermelons, and movie night with Buffy, Zoila, […]
JULY 2019, ISSUE #218 Read More »
It was a family month, for sure. We drove north for Camille’s annual family reunion, and Bob spent a couple of nights in Denver with daughter, Emily. We had stopovers in Virginia, celebrated Camille’s 65th birthday, went out on the lake with friends, worked in the yard, discovered some interesting critters, and enjoyed bountiful summer
JUNE 2019, ISSUE #217 Read More »
A fresh, green garden with promises of food to come, uneducated squirrels, a bridal shower, the potato chip tour, okonomiyaki, sourdough, and dovelets. DOUBLE DELIGHT Double Delight, Oklahoma, and Pink Peace came on at the beginning of the month, right on the heels of last month’s Fragrant Cloud. SCENES FROM A WORKING
MAY 2019, ISSUE #216 Read More »
This month we attended a birthday party in Bynum, a wedding at The Plant, reflected upon our own wedding vows, and ambled over to Jordan Lake for their Environmental Futures Fair where we pet a corn snake. We puzzled over backyard flora and fauna, enjoyed dinner with a new friend, got new eyeglasses and a
APRIL 2019, ISSUE #215 Read More »
A month in which Bob traveled to Houston and Ardmore, we upgraded our transportation system, licked our lips in anticipation of summer eats, wandered around the Bynum hydroelectric plant, enjoyed slow home cooking, and celebrated 20 years of neighborhood networking at Trail Crawl. LAST OF THE COLLARDS We enjoyed collard greens from our
MARCH 2019, ISSUE #214 Read More »
We packed a lot into the shortest month of the year. Bob was on the road for 22 out of 28 days, spending two weeks in the San Francisco Bay Area, training with the SCS Global admin team and visiting friends, before flying off to Arizona and Tennessee to conduct sustainability audits. Camille spent much
FEBRUARY 2019, ISSUE #213 Read More »
Bob was on the road for a good portion of the month while Camille stuck around the home place and hung out with her friends. Life’s pleasures are not always equitably distributed. BROCCOLI SPAWNS HOME GROWN ADDICTION Camille flushes with inordinate pride over the simplest of accomplishments, a head of back yard broccoli. Although
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Travel, travel, travel. Travel for work and travel for pleasure. Bob goes to Liberty, Kansas and Chicago, Illinois for his auditing work and we both spend some time in Colorado visiting family and friends and strolling down memory lane to the Big Thompson River with Amy before returning to good old North Carolina for down
DECEMBER, 2018 #211 Read More »
Art and flowers, home improvements, a grand opening, fall foliage, a meal that couldn’t be beat, and local food abundance. ART IS WHERE YOU FIND IT In a bouquet of azalea, hydrangea, ginger, and asparagus, or inside a stainless steel tank of in-process apple brandy. BOUNTY BEFORE THE FROST Giant white
NOVEMBER 2018, ISSUE #210 Read More »
Bob goes to Germany. Camille goes to the zoo. We start harvesting our crop of ginger and turmeric. Meanwhile Mom and Dad settle into their new routine with brother Michael, and Nolan gets one month older. BOB’s NEW JOB Bob has taken on the heady world of auditing, requiring massive amounts of complicated
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