Seed catalogs have been coming and right after New Years, we’ll start our annual seed ordering.
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Chanukah ends tomorrow. Friday I made kugel for us, along with a noisette of lamb from the Noon Family Farm and leeks.
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In every December for the past thirty years, we’ve held a solstice party but this year contented ourselves with a lovely Saturday evening get-together for six (including Shaman, who always assumes he’s invited).
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Wednesday of this week, I finally saw a cardiologist, thanks to Dr. Shay’s intervention while he was vacationing in Ireland.
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Wednesday, we went to Bayberry nursery to get a tree. We always get balsam. I love the scent and the needles aren’t so long as the Douglas fir trees.
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This week, I’ve continued to gain more strength and do more than I’ve been able. I still have to rest in between bouts of working, but I can carry out many things I couldn’t even last week. I’ve been doing most of the cooking now.
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I have occasional bad days, usually when the meds I’m on cause digestive problems or when I’ve suffered a sleepless night, but on the whole, I’m slowly but steadily growing stronger.
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Anyone who follows me on Facebook, knows what I’ve been going through, but life is slowly returning to a new normal.
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I was having a good week until Friday.
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As electronics becomes more and more complicated, the information on how to use them has just about disappeared.
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Shaman suddenly demonstrated that he is no longer a kitten but an adolescent cat.
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We left for Maine early Wednesday morning. Once we were well on our way and over the bridge, the engine light on the dashboard started flashing.
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We’ll have a small get together on Erev Rosh Hashonah, just six of us.
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Today I plant fall lettuces, escarole, frisee. Maybe some more radishes?
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We woke to find the downstairs laundry room flooded and water coming ever more intensively from not a house pipe but the pipe bringing in water from our well.
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After more than two months of drought, we had two days of sometimes heavy rain this week.
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We have had a couple of showers. It hasn’t been anything like the soaker we desperately need but it cleared the air.
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We had an hour’s rain this week on Tuesday, a real rain although short lived. Everybody got a drink, anyhow,
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The heat is unremitting. I set the alarm to get up early so I can get into the garden, but by a bit after nine, it’s almost too hot to continue.
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We’ve had no rain since the latter part of June.
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