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In Bed This Week 09/14/2020 – Which End of the Elephant?

Garden Goals, House Goals, September, Weekly Works / Carson

Above: “Elephant” Photo by Stuart Bassil / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elephant.jpg This has been another week of split time between Overleaf the House and Overleaf the Garden. I’m doing a little bit on each, and I have to keep telling myself that I’m not on a strict deadline to complete either, so I don’t need to […]

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9-11 IN MEMORIUM

Memory, September / Carson

Blackwater Woods by Mary Oliver To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. Mary Jane Oliver ~ b. September

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Texas Adjustable Four Pepper Chili con Carne

Food, Fresh Served, September / Carson

An old American idiom states: “Don’t bring a knife to a gunfight.” For obvious reasons. Likewise, don’t bring soup to a chili cook-off. You just might get similar results. Texas Chili recipes are almost legendary for their use of one or more secret ingredients to make a version special or “the best you ever tasted.”

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In Bed This Week 09/07/2020 – Putting It All Together

House Goals, Life Goals, September, Weekly Works / Carson

I confess I haven’t been accomplishing very much in the garden lately. The heat has just been too much, and I’ve moved my attention to a number of things inside the house, where I can work in air conditioned comfort. That doesn’t mean I haven’t done anything out doors, I finally moved the remaining reclaimed

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What We Leave Behind

Art, Memory, September / Carson

Just yesterday my mother asked me if I missed New York City. I think she was expecting a different answer than the one I gave her. I miss it every day. I don’t even need to close my eyes to see the busy streets, the lights, the people. I often recall where West 47th, 7th

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Maggie’s Shrimp and Grits

Food, Fresh Served, Memory, September / Carson

Maggie’s Shrimp and Grits Shrimp and Grits are a traditional Carolina Low Country dish. Since I have ancestors from that region, I thought I’d develop a recipe of my own, but give it a little southwestern twist. Based on several different versions I’ve eaten over the years,. I simply added a little Shredded Mexican blend

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September In Bed– Things To Do, Dodgeball Hurricane, Plotting and Planning

August, Garden Goals, House Goals, Monthly Schedule, Weekly Works / Carson

Dodgeball Hurricane…This past week the Houston area briefly flirted with two unusually closely spaced hurricanes. An odd part of living along the Gulf Coast is our tacit love/hate relationship with tropical storms and hurricanes. We eye them out in the Gulf with all the wariness of a gaggle of nerdy kids in a dodgeball game.

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Terra Preta – Part 1 – A Treasure Under Foot

August, Garden Goals / Carson

Above: Muisca raft, Gold Museum, Bogotá, Colombia. Thought to depict an actual ceremony that originated the El Dorado myth. Legend tells of a Muisca king who would cover himself in gold dust during festivals, then dive from a raft into Lake Guatavita. This golden piece was found in Pasca, Cundinamarca, Colombia, in 1969. In 1542

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Shrimp and Chorizo Stew

August, Food, Fresh Served / Carson

Would gumbo by any other name taste as rich? (Sorry Willy S.) Since this dish is of Spanish heritage and has potatoes and kale, it certainly can’t be called gumbo, but it shares a few of the same herbs and spices, so it trips a lot of the same taste switches. The choice of little

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In Bed This Week 08/24/2020

August, Design, Garden Goals, Weekly Works / Carson

This past week, as promised, I cleared a portion of the surrounding “edge” garden beds, an action undertaken in small increments, and in keeping with the Kaizen philosophy of small continual improvement. I distributed more of the paving material to various places around the garden. The picture (above left) shows a pile of “rubble” I

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