These past few weeks have been so perfectly beautiful – clear as a bell and full to the brim with flowers and the unfolding of fresh green leaves, ready to meet the sunshine. The mornings have been dew-strung and misty, illuminating the careful lacy weavings of the spiders in the golden light, and at night…
Tag: thrift
The Odd Bits: Beef Heart Stew
I love this blooming, gentle season, with its bright blue days so beautiful they seem like a dream, and skies that are like gazing into the eyes of a beloved. They shift so easily into the pattering, grey days when the slick tree trunks stand out from the blushing green. Perhaps it is the flowers…
The Odd Bits: Fried Testicles
Despite the warmth of this winter, we at last passed through the frost-bearded days of our wintery spring, the dark, chilly nights pinpricked by the undying stars, when i wake up before light to sprinkle the frozen, rattling garden; crunching bucket-laden to the honking geese in the white dawn through the field of bright glass-green…
Fried Chicken (and a little romance)
This is not a new recipe, but one I’ve made for a long time. I first came up with it after I began to eat meat again after several years of being strict vegetarian, and then vegan. My years of plant-based diet had started to cause some health problems for me, and I felt…
The Lost Art Of Clothing Repair
Clothing repair is a lost art, but I don’t mean to suggest that this post will replace all the art that has been lost! This is just one way that I’ve found to be a satisfactory way to repair clothes. I used to just throw away clothes with rips and tears, but when I got…
Toadstools And Fairy Rings 