Things I’ve Bought that I Love: Peerless Shower System

So this last week, Maura and I have had the crud. Different kinds of crud, but…crud. The list of things making me happy right now is brief: popsicles, slushees, my new showerhead. Of those things, I’m betting that you guys already know about how awesome popsicles and slushees are, so instead, we’re going to talk [...]

Disaster!

I had, for the most part, a shockingly productive weekend. Unlike the way things usually go, I actually finished everything that I intended to finish this weekend. I put up about ten half-pints of peach-poblano jam, two half-pints of marinated mushrooms, four quarts of dill pickles, and six half-pints of pickled purple cauliflower and onions. [...]

One of those weeks

So far, the plant mortality rate around here is zero, which is pretty damn impressive. Our yard is also covered with the flowers you see in the picture above. I think that they’re forget-me-nots, though I’d always thought that forget-me-nots were blue. There are definitely blue flowers here, but some of them are purple, and [...]