We’ve has some rain here in the long drought region of north Georgia.
Elly is making the most of it:
Archive for March, 2009
Out like a very wet lamb
Posted in Uncategorized on March 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Blowin’ in the Wind
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Eleanor discovered the joys of dandelions that have gone to seed. She huffed and puffed and blew the whole yard with puffy weeds. It was super cute. My neighbors won’t like us much, but hey, childhood isn’t about pleaseing the neighbors.
Whoever gives me $100K gets to pick the color
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dream, farm on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My best friend Trish and I have a dream, and the dream is Agra-Tourism. We want to have a little working farm just outside of a college town here in Georgia. She wants to grow vegetables and fruits, make jams and can pickles. I want to host luncheons, conferences and farm events, and run a [...]
The Gulf roughed me up and spit me out
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
My sister Lynn, Trish, Eleanor and I headed down to the sunny beach this afternoon. The weather has been great: warm, but not HOT, and sunny. Slathered in a fresh bottle of SPF 70, which, when applied to the skin, causes a shade tree to pop out of your head, we hunkered down [...]
Memo from Saralyn: the beach sucks
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged beach, condo, Pensacola, Saralyn on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Saralyn got her little toes in the sand today. Then the crying started. Sand is yucky. Sand sticks to hands. And legs, and bottoms. The journey to the beach happened just after my younger peed her swim pants on the carpet in my parents condo. As far as Saralyn, my [...]
I rocked.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Billy Joel, concert, Elton John, MARTA, Seasons 52 on March 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The Billy Joel Elton John concert last night at Phillips Arena was great. The show started at 7:30 and rocked until well past 11PM, no intermission. Those two guys have a combined age of more than 120, but they keep it shakin’ all night long.
I’d like to thank all the people who made last night [...]
Lent and my Fast
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fasting, Lent, Sugar addiction on March 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As you may recall, I gave up meat, sweets and anything deep fired for Lent. How’s that going? So glad you asked.
I’ve messed it up once or twice. I ate 3 or so corn chips at a Mexican restaurant the other day before I remember how corn chips are made. And [...]
Dirty girls
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Yeah, that’s me and Trish. We’re two dirty girls down on the farm.
What a great day.
Trish and I furrowed. Fun with dirt!
Here ’s the fruit of out labors – transplanted baby broccolis!
Here’s the star of our his farm – GRANDPA!
He’s a wonderful, kind, smart man.
Here’s the orphan cabbages, all neat and safe in the dirt. [...]
All Hail Kale!
Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
My best friend Trish works the family farm. It’s a city farm, near downtown Atlanta, but it’s still a country farm. There’s a tractor and a green house. There’s an apple tree and rows of veggies.
On Tuesday, she gave me a department store bag full of KALE. Truth be told, I hadn’t cooked much with [...]
More about the kale tomorrow…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eleanor, Food, kale on March 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I promise I will blog with pictures tomorrow, but Eleanor said the funniest thing.
I made Kale Chips. I said, “Eleanor, come try these.” And she did.
Then she spit it out and said, “This is yuck.”
I said, “Well, you tried it, and I’m happy.”
Without missing a beat and in all seriousness, she said, “Well, [...]
