Hungrily grateful
We got our half hog from Taylor-Made Farms a few weeks back, about 85lbs of pork. It’s maybe the best thing I’ve ever eaten in my life. So far I’ve used ground pork for meat sauce, served bacon a bunch …
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A quick question for the knitters
I’m finally writing up the baby hat and legwarmer pattern for release, and I’ve got a question for you. What size range would you want to see on this pattern? I’ve already done the math and testing for a 0-6m …
Guess who started kung fu classes?
He’s been asking to start studying kung fu for at least a year now. This past weekend we signed him up for classes at a fantastic school. He’s pretty psyched. Pre-babies and pre-blog, I studied kung fu. I was a …
Tube meats, costumes, bad fashion decisions…
Yeah…playing catch-up again with the photos. Behold the wonder that is our family: 1. Like 80% of Portlanders, we woke up to an unexpectedly warm and sunny Sunday a few weeks back and thought, “Pumpkins!” We went to Kruger’s Farm …
Chasing the next novel
I finished my first novel (Drowning Practice) in 2005, before I got pregnant with Thumper. I had the extreme good fortune to spend my first month of that pregnancy at Ragdale, where I had nothing to do but write all …
Pumpkin face
Guess who’s started eating solid food? She’s six months now, sitting up unassisted for a few weeks already, and had been trying to mooch food off my plate constantly. It was time. So far I’ve made her pureed apples, pureed …
We’re still here
Life gets in the way of blogging sometimes, even when it seems like not very much is happening at all. Shall we have some random so I can play catchup a bit? 1. Ladybug has been sitting up unassisted for …
So that “kidney discomfort”?
It was a back ache. And after Billy stretched and rubbed it last night it went away. (How much do I love being married to a physical therapist?!) I guess my feelings about eating meat are still kind of complicated, …
I’ve never been all that good at that moderation thing
Meat! Meat! I LOVE MEAT! Did you know that meat is delicious? And makes you feel like a superhero when you eat it? Hello, protein rush! In the two weeks that I’ve been eating it I’ve tried roasted chicken, burgers, …
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