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July, 2011 Issue #122
JULY 31, 1994 –
LOVELAND, COLORADO
Bob and Camille
get hitched on the dry grassland in front of their rented farmhouse seventeen
years ago. In attendance were best man Mahlon, maid of honor, Shirley and
daughters Molly, Emily and Amy.
OKONOMIYAKI!
Starting out the
month right, six of us got together for an okonomiyaki party. Haruka mixes
the vegetables, mostly cabbage, into the batter and we fried them on their
griddle.
GETTING
THE KNACK OF IT
Camille beams
triumphant after a masterful series of pancake flips. Haruka, Jason, Amy,
Garth and Bob (behind the lens) share her pride.
WHAT ARE
FRIENDS FOR?
Friends are for
sharing all things wonderful, in this case enough fresh beets to make puree for
three beet cakes, sweet cherry tomatoes and a boatload of sumptuous shishito
peppers. Yum!
HAPPY
BIRTHDAY RACHEL AND JASON
Rachel and Jason
both have July birthdays so they shared the task of blowing out the candles atop
a chocolate beet cake while Linus observed the ritual.
DAUGHTERS
Jason’s daughter,
Claire and Lyle’s daughter, Kaitlyn graced our home and got to meet Spot on July
7th.
OILSEEDER
Oliseeder Sam
joined us a couple of weeks before returning to Dickinson College in Carlisle,
Pennsylvania.
RAIN STAY,
ANTS GO AWAY
We’d like the rain
to stay, please but would prefer the ants go away. For more than a month,
our counters have been crawling with ants despite good housekeeping practices
which include wiping down the counters after every meal and taking out the
compost several times a day. The ants are usually in hunting mode but apparently
happen upon watermelon juice residue or toast crumbs often enough to keep them
coming back, day after day. Please let us know of your anti-ant
remedies. At this point, we’ll try anything short of dynamite!
CISTERN
Bob and Jason
crawled down into the cistern Jason has been using for water storage to inspect
it for leaks. They found some and will have to decide whether or not to
patch them up.
TOMATO
RESCUE, BEFORE AND AFTER
Jenny and Camille
rescued toppled tomato vines in the Community Garden on July 27. As you
can see everything had utterly fallen on its side but after an hour, everything
was straight up.
The pounders –
Camille and Jenny took turns pounding stakes to brace the tomato cages.
This task would have been easier had they used a sledge hammer but such a tool
was not to be had. After the stakes were in, they tied the cages to them
using landscape twine.
BEAN
PYRAMID
Bob tied up three
pieces of bamboo into a beautiful bean cage on July 23rd.
DEVASTATING
A week later, the
deer had found the succulent bean leaves and munched many of them away.
This is what happens to unfenced gardens in our neck of the woods.
FAR OUT
Or Further, as the
case may be. Bobby and Garth rock out to Further in Raleigh on July
28th. It was a great show, worth the drive from Chicago that Bobby and his
friends made to get here.
MAKING A
SPLASH
Camille’s new
buddies, Peg and Simon pause for refreshment in Harland’s Creek on a hot
Carolina morning.
ENJOYING
THAT NATURE THING
Hailey is
Camille’s latest passion, a eight year old black Mustang mare who enjoys
munching anything she can get her lips around. Peg and Camille were giving
Hailey and Simon a grazing break, when these cute posies caught their eye.
The fun of riding goes way beyond bonding with each other and the horses.
We love getting out into the real world to find everything from tiny albino
fawns to pretty pink field flowers.
THIS MONTH’S QUOTES:
“In gardens, beauty is a
by-product. The main business is sex and death.” – Sam Llewelyn
“What is this life if, full
of care, We have no time to stand and stare? – No time to stand beneath the
boughs, And stare as long as sheep and cows.” – W. H. Davies
“When you have seen one ant,
one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.” – E. O. Wilson
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