This little piggy went to the Madrona Farmers Market. This little piggy stayed home (to tend to the garden). This little piggy ate grass-fed roast beef. This little piggy had none (vegetarian). And this little piggy went “wee, wee, wee, wee” all the way home (to the Urban Cabin). Last Friday was this season’s kick-off […]
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Adoption is green
Since today is Earth Day, I’m thought I’d write about how adoption is ‘green.’ Yes, it’s true that green is the “new black.” These days it seems like everybody’s going green. Big Papa and I try to tread lightly on the earth. We have one car and it’s not an SUV by a long shot. […]
Watch those babies grow
I am one of those chicks who talks to plants. I cajole, compliment and cheer them along when I want them to grow. I say I’m sorry and ask for forgiveness when I uproot them. I express my sorrow and offer appreciation for a job well done if their time in our garden comes to […]
One potato, two potatoes, three potatoes, four
There they were. Little ruby treasures buried in the dirt. Potatoes! Last year, Big Papa and I tried our hand at garbage can potato farming. Our first crop yielded eighty-one potatoes, which by our estimation qualified as a successful venture. Potatoes are one of those mystery crops that develop out of sight, underground. You never […]
Five years and a facelift
What a difference five years can make in a life. On 1-9-05 I was a single girl. I’d been single a long time. On this cold and unusually snowy Seattle Sunday, my first date with Big Papa was on the calendar. We’d arranged for me to pick him up and drive to the Bainbridge Island […]
There’s no place like home
Down the lane Rain pounds on the windshield of our rental car as we drive up the gravel road in Ingomar, Pennsylvania, just north by twenty minutes from Pittsburgh. The temperature outside is unseasonably cold and we hear that several inches of snow had fallen the week before our visit. Today the skies are gray, […]
This old house
I’ll never forget that cold, rainy day in late October 2005 when the last of the boxes with all my worldly belongings made their way to the Urban Cabin. I left my keys inside the cozy apartment I’d lived in for ten years and shut the door. I drove the mile between my former abode […]