March is a good time to figure out the garden. It’s too cold and windy to do much else. There are several garden catalogs that arrive in the mail every winter. So much to choose from!
Happiness and Spinach Balls
Lila channeled Martin Buber in this poem.
Doing the Books and Chicken Noodle Soup
There are those who believe in leveraging. You know, using debt to asset ratio, leaning heavily on the debt more than the assets. There are others who believe in using a pencil to figure out if you can pay for things with the income you have.
How to Boil an Egg and Deviled Eggs
Back in the day, if you wanted to say something unkind about the cooking skills of someone, you would say scornfully, “Why he/she doesn’t even know how to boil an egg!”
Japanese Zen Snow Garden in Iowa and Oatmeal Meatballs
Snow in the winter. It’s a given in Iowa. It can start as early as October and can last until April. Snow days are built into the school calendar and four-wheel drive in your car or truck is a good thing to have.
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Office Memo and Grandma’s Oatmeal Cake
Ever watched Mad Men? Lila observed this type of behavior in 1985.
Early Darkness and Hot Orange Spice Tea and Chili
It’s dark when you get up in the morning. It’s dark when you come home from work. Winter darkness. It creeps up on you.
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Homemade Produce Cleaner and Hot and Spicy Mustard
Hey, it’s January. If I have a hankering (who in the heck says that?) for fresh produce that I have to buy at a store, I use a homemade produce cleaner. It’s super easy and lots cheaper than a store-bought version.
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Chickens, It’s Cold Outside! And Chicken Rice Roger
I have to profess my love. I love our chickens. We started raising chickens when my oldest daughter, now thirty-one, was in the fourth grade. She brought home her class project and we didn’t have a place to put it. So we built a small chicken house. A one thousand dollar chicken house for a $1.50 chicken. That turned out to be a rooster.
I’m not kidding.
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