Author Archives: Jen

174: Fourth Food

My friends were teasing me that I didn’t really show up to my own party on the fourth, as I was bee-bopping around the property, keeping an eye on the Seven Hour Braised Lamb: And making hamburgers and Mar-a-Lago Turkey … Continue reading

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175: What Vegetarians Eat for Breakfast

This is not a wholly-Fuhrman breakfast, and the Gorgonzola on the watermelon salad makes it not vegan, but this is the kind of thing you’ll find us eating for breakfast around here: We’re getting skinnier, but we’re not starving.  Clockwise, … Continue reading

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176: Leftovers

Sometimes I really get stuck in a rut, making the same things over and over again, mostly because of a lack of inspiration, so it’s nice to have a reason to make and to try a lot of new things … Continue reading

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177: Green Salad

When most people write “green salad” they mean a salad based on lettuce, which this one is, in point of fact . . . but it’s also a very green salad. It’s so green that I decided to forgo the … Continue reading

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180: Goat Wrangling

We have an issue in the barn . . . the kittens contracted conjunctivitis, which jumped to the pygmy goat. He doesn’t much care to be wrestled to have the terramycin added to his eye twice a day, so we’ve … Continue reading

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181: Let Sleeping Babies Lie

Michael’s primary purpose for owning a camera is to take pictures of people who are sleeping. I say this: Sometimes I wake up grumpy. Most of the time, I let her sleep. 🙂 On the other hand, we also subscribe … Continue reading

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182: Camp Pluckyfluff

Woot! Camp Pluckyfluff was held this weekend at Paradise Fibers with the fabulous Lexi Boeger. For two days, she taught us to spin amazing crazy yarns. Here’s a cloud she spun: And the table, full of the skeins the class … Continue reading

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183: Tomatoes

These tomatoes are ripe . . . they’re just green. Yum.

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184: Five Lessons

I should probably stop reading blogs by well-meaning teachers because first they make me sad, and then they make me rant. The question the author, Jill Guerra, purports to ask herself is a good one: “I concerned only with control … Continue reading

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185: No Small Wonder

Why is our democracy so apathetic? Might it be because we’re training our children, in their formative years, systematically, in schools, to expect that the Constitution is meaningless? Last spring, I attended a lecture by Naomi Wolf, who said, “It’s … Continue reading

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