I’ve just dropped this in the mail to its recipient so I don’t want to show you what it is completely… here is a taste of something I put together for Sarah, the lovely magical mailbox maker.  I’ll show you a proper picture in a week or so– when I’m sure she’s gotten it.
Mostly, this [...]

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Sorry the oil tracker was up there for so long– let’s move onto something a bit more positive, okay?  This week I picked up our first CSA share from the good folks at Evensong Farm. I picked this farm for a number of reasons: 1) it’s owned by women (and you know I’m all about [...]

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It’s a bit outside what I normally do here, but the events in the Gulf this past month seem to be going from bad to worse to downright awful.  In fact, it’s been tough for Jon and I not to loose hope in humanity’s future (too dramatic?) the Gulf’s ability to recover. The oceans are [...]

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As promised, some images from this weekend’s “Pen Petting Zoo” at the National Postal Museum!  It was loads of nerdy, postal fun.  I have to say, I think I enjoyed the ink table more than the pens.  Not only were the bottles just beautiful (and I took a lot of photos of the bottles) but [...]

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