Author: Calamity Jane
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Marmalade Redooo
The good news: It worked! I gelled a batch of marmalade! The bad news: I have no idea why it worked. I did put the seeds in a little cheesecloth baggie, and boiled with the rest, as some recipes suggested. But there weren’t very many seeds, I can’t imagine it was that. I also let…
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Pulling Weeds/Screaming Baby
Ah, motherhood. The first step for my new community garden bed is to clear the space of weeds. Fortunately, the spot had been covered with a good 6 or 8 inches of sawdust, otherwise, I’ve seen what weeds can do around here, Holy Crappers! But still it was about half regrown with one of their…
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Trash vs. Treasure
Spent my early morning scouting for trash. When I first went out to greet the day (and get this Baby back to sleep so I could enjoy a little blogging time) I heard a distant rumble, “Crap! The garbage truck!” I had been eyeing several bulging bags of leaves the last couple of days, and…
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Monastery Marmalade
Oh yes, you read me right. I’m quite excited about this one. For some reason it took me more than a month living here to realize we lived one and a half blocks from a monastery. I guess in my life up till now, monasteries are the stuff of fairy tales. Maybe they really exist,…
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Coming Out of the Closet
Yup, I been making this here little blog on the sly. For some reason I like to write a shit-ton of posts, accumulate them in my draft box, and then break it out all at once. Plus, I had to sew up that cutie-pie apron, by hand (left my sewing machine in Cordova). And of…
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