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Monthly Archives: August 2009

First egg!

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

One of my hens laid the first egg today. The hens are five months old. It’s a smallish egg, not the extra-large I expect from these hens, so I guess the hens aren’t as mature as I thought. I had promised the hens that when they laid the first egg, I’d clean their house and […]

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Scrambled tofu

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Vegetarians and vegans have known for a long time that one quick cure for a protein craving is scrambled tofu. When I started buying tofu back in the 1970s, you could get it only at health food stores. Now even my country supermarket at Walnut Cove has it, organic. I always buy the firmest tofu […]

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Turkey in high clover

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Should I regret having planted thousands of square feet with three varieties of clover? The clover draws varmints like peach peels draw fruit flies. Just this morning I saw one of the resident groundhogs up on its hind feet about 10 feet from a couple of turkeys, trying to get the turkeys to go away. […]

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No town halls, Virginia?

Friday, August 7, 2009

If you do a Google search for “Virginia Foxx,” you’ll see that every time she has spoken on the House floor recently, she has embarrassed North Carolina’s Fifth District. It’s not just that she is ignorant and therefore almost always wrong. Or even that she repeats the vilest and most thoroughly debunked right-wing propaganda. It’s […]

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Rolling back the clock on sweets

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

These will be ready to eat tomorrow. There are a couple of scenes in the BBC series Cranford, which is set in Cheshire around 1840, in which some children get very excited about the fact that their cherry tree has come into season. The children get a big thrill out of helping the new doctor […]

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Chicken treats

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

A plate of chicken treats If one eats well of the summer produce, then one’s backyard chickens can eat well too. Their favorites are corn and watermelon. They like squash well enough after they’ve eaten all the corn and watermelon. They go crazy over nice, ripe tomatoes. They can put away a ton of peach […]

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Since 1932…

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

On July 8, 1932, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit its lowest point of the Great Depression — 41.22 The media, as far as I can tell, almost completely ignored yesterday this story from the Associated Press about federal tax receipts, which have dropped in 2009 at a rate not seen since 1932. For the […]

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