Thursday, October 14, 2010

Fresh Garden Tomatillos


Fresh Garden Tomatillos
Originally uploaded by inneri
What a great year for gardening! Thanks for such great food this summer!

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Rae Rays

Hello Family,

It's time to share a little of our lives at 1246. Today, let's see Rachel.
First we have Rachel the Bug-itarian. She had such compassion on this katydid that she worked very carefully to free it skinny leg by skinny leg from the sticky packing tape on which it was trapped. Laurel and I were more like the priest and the Levite. If it did not survive life in the backyard after its liberation, it was not for Rachel's lack of compassion.
Here is Rachel the Tincturarian. The past two months she has endured cup after cup and dropper after dropper of a variety of teas and tinctures. Most yucky--squaw vine and false unicorn root! But those may have helped her pregnancy.
Rachel the "I CAN'T BREATHE!" Anti-drug Crusader in the recent devastating cold that flu through our house. PS My mustard plaster didn't seem to be very effective, but it was fun to make.
Rachel the Swinger.
Rachel the Plantetarian, modeling one of the two sets of twin summer squash from our garden. Could this portend something else?
Rachel the Conductor of the Director, supporting Maestro Micah in his astonishingly beautiful early fall orchestra concert at Good Old Oly.
Rachel the Impromptu Tutor. When she saw my inept attempts to help Hisso with her math, we traded cooking for tutoring. Neither suffered in the exchange. Life with Rae is a blessing--many hats, one beautiful woman!