After over a month of harvesting and roasting Roma tomatoes for Marinara sauce, I have turned back to my own German ethnicity. After chopping and salting red and green cabbage I have started the fermentation process to make homemade sauerkraut using crocks like my Grandmother used to.
I’ve embedded the follow Youtube clip to illustrate how [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Gardening’
September 15, 2009
Today, a German Girl
June 13, 2009
Today in the Garden
Nick and I gardened today with the Porch Cat. Porch Cat has taken to joining me in the garden and for reasons I can’t explain he likes rolling in the dirt next to me. Perhaps it’s escaped his notice that his coat is half white.
Anyway, my son teased me for wearing garden gloves and garden [...]
January 29, 2009
3 A.M. on Day 3
It’s 3:30 A.M., I’ve been awake for about a half hour and I’m crabby, really crabby. This is the third day in a row that I woke up after 3 or 4 hours of sleep and I can’t go back to sleep. I was so exhausted yesterday that I couldn’t hold a thought.
For the past [...]
January 23, 2009
Today I Want…
Today I want winter to end and menopause to begin. I want to take a long walk in warm weather. I want to read a book on the back patio while sipping wine and roasting Red Crab on the grill. I want Amish Snap Peas from my garden, I want the house to fill with [...]
May 31, 2008
Seeds of Change
I wasn’t really looking for a career change, but when a really great opportunity presents itself you have to jump on…tuck your feet and arms in and roll with it.
I took a job about 6 weeks ago which is why A Novel Spot has been so neglected. It wasn’t planned but I loved the job [...]
