A three trip month, one for work, one for family, and one for fun. A spooky sight in the garden, end-of-season harvests, and fall planting. A birthday party with music and a birthday on the beach. And a black eye. THE HONEYSUCKLE FENCE Just for fun, this is how our front fence line […]
SEPTEMBER 2018, ISSUE #208 Read More »
A lovely, even-paced month in which we put up a new street sign, got wet at the farmers market, began leveling the Spot garden, enjoyed a walk at Jordan Lake Dam, busied ourselves in the kitchen, and kept an eye on Shelley’s livestock. A SIGN Bob thought we should replace our splintered, wooden
AUGUST 2018, ISSUE #207 Read More »
Pickles, peach picking, pillow shopping, pan pepper frying, and a perfect 24th wedding anniversary. This month was all about the simple pleasures of home grown, home cooked food. LOCAL FOOD = RESILIENCE Not just trendy, beyond cool, getting your food from the back yard or next door is one way we can assert
JULY 2018, ISSUE #206 Read More »
Celebrating Camille’s birthday and the camaraderie of family and friends in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, with a couple of side trips down memory lane, meeting new friends, and savoring good times at Mary Beth and Brandon’s wedding with the old Oilseed Community gang BANG Big bang for the buck, these gladiolus and hydrangea
JUNE 2018, ISSUE #205 Read More »
Peonies a-poppin\’ and roses, too. A music festival and a birthday party, a car wreck, a trip to the coast, and a newly-paved road into work. PEONIES AND ROSES Nearly ten years of home ownership and our perennials are growing stronger every year. More photos with explanatory prose at: Peonies and Roses
MAY 2018, ISSUE #204 Read More »
Peonies popping, construction at home and work signalling a new era, torching the old pampas grass to make way for new growth, stocking the freezer with six months of Sunday cutlets, horses, flowers, frogs, mulch, and lunch out on the town. April was seething with optimism; a perfect example of spring! R.I.P. TAMI TANK
APRIL 2018, ISSUE #203 Read More »
This month we plant seeds to put under lights in the back room, visit Camille’s family in Pennsylvania, host the first stop of the annual trail crawl, explore Hemlock Bluffs, and set back to watch the pears and red buds put on their show. SEEDING FLATS A hopeful endeavor that signals a season
MARCH 2018, ISSUE #202 Read More »
Unbelievably, things are warming up, the goats are kidding, seeds are being planted, we’re wearing shorts, celebrating birthdays, and of course, cooking and eating. Life is good! HAW RIVER PROJECT Bob was standing on the town of Pittsboro’s water intake above the Haw River dam when he took this picture. He is working on
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Welcome to issue no. 200! We started the New Year in the best possible fashion, with black-eyed peas and friends, weathered two storms and the flu, keeping our chins up with multiple sandwiches on sourdough bread, a going-away party for Jay and Giovanna, coloring, pot pie, free beer and mushrooms. HOPPIN\’ JOHN There’s
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A month of creativity, in which we acquire art from Frankie, kick off a new project at work, publish a memoir, reap the rewards of ginger, broccoli, and garlic, count vultures, play with clay, and bake cookies. PICTURE FROM A THOUSAND WORDS Our friend, Frankie Abralind creates portraits of writers, typewritten in their own
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