First, Happy Solstice! James decided it was a good burger holiday and whipped up some lentil-beet-seitan burgers with sautéed onions, mushrooms, radish from the garden, arugula from the garden, and a tasty vegan ranch dressing sandwiched on whole wheat multigrain sourdough bread that I made. A delicious way to celebrate summer! Second, Happy Father’s Day …
Category: Holidays
Filled With Joy
It’s been a busy few weeks, and since spring has finally arrived, it is only going to get busier and busier as the garden takes over my life. There has been so much joy happening lately. No Kings was amazing. I didn’t go to the huge rally at the capitol, but to the one in …
Occupied
So much happening here and it changes from hour to hour and day to day. Minneapolis and Minnesota are all over the headlines and opening my email to the journalists’ newsletters I subscribe to or perusing the reporting of pretty much any news site is disconcerting. I'm reading echoes. Foreign news agencies have sent their …
Welcome 2026
After last weekend’s main drain backup it turned out the plumbing wasn’t finished with us yet. Thursday afternoon the shower in the basement bathroom we’ve been using for the past month while our main bathroom remodel takes its sweet time, decided to leak. And it wasn’t one of those slow drip, drip leaks. But we …
Winter Solstice 2025
Oh Friends, it has been a busy couple of weeks, but now I am happily on vacation for the next two weeks. Aaaaahhhhhh. The busy was from many things. At work it was wrapping up the semester and trying to make sure the professors I support had all the research materials they needed while the …
