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Backyard: Travel by Flower
It’s Travel Tuesday, and even tho I cannot go anywhere I have been plunging plugs of soil from the yard as I deal with some visitors from Europe who have overstayed their welcome. Dandelions: the two most commonplace species worldwide, T. officinale (the common dandelion) and T. erythrospermum (the red-seeded dandelion), were introduced into North
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Backyard: Blogging (a How-to Guide)
As spring approaches, and the snow melts into a nurturing moisture that slowly starts to restore the greens to the grass and the leaves to the trees in my little suburban backyard, I find myself looking for excuses to sit in the weak spring sunshine and do those activities I would have just weeks before
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On Streaks and Inevitable Solo Runs
It’s unlikely that you’ve been following any of the specific news emerging from my little corner of the world, but as of midnight tonight we go into yet another wave of increased pandemic restrictions. My region is considered one of the world’s COVID hotspots because … um, human stubbornness. I had spent last week trying
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Banoffee Swirl Ice Cream
Tales from the Cast Iron Guy Creamery If you, like me, avoid those recipe blogs that spend the first fifteen pages of text explaining the backstory of the recipe, then I have a treat for you… merely two paragraphs, a photo, and of course a delicious ice cream recipe to follow. Our travel-food story goes
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a’la plancha
It’s Friday afternoon and it turns out that you really can learn something new every day. For example, while I was reading a new e-book that I had downloaded I also learned a new cast iron word. In fact, last night I was sitting in the truck waiting for my daughter to finish her dancing