I created this extremely helpful… graphic… to illustrate how far I’ve gotten on my Very First Sweater. All right, I cut a little arrow out of the top of a post-it and stuck it on the pattern and then took a picture. Well? It works, right? And I can totally use that post-it arrow again [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Wednesday Knitting Update: Very First Sweater, part 2
Posted in Fiber, Wednesday Knitting Update on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Open Source Misogyny
Posted in Our Warped World, The Asshole on the Train, Uppity bitches on April 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I know that everyone has been talking about this for days, but I just have to comment on this “Open Source Boob Project.” So, in case you haven’t heard about it, some dudes were sitting around at a comic convention or something, and talking about how awesome it would be if they could just go around [...]
Problem-solving
Posted in Bicycles, Gardening on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Runners like to say that they do their best thinking while out for a jog. Ok, so here’s the challenge I rolled around in my brain while out for a morning run: how to bring enough water to douse my little plot to the community garden (since the community garden water won’t be turned on until next week), keeping [...]
Wednesday Knitting Update: my very first sweater
Posted in Fiber, Wednesday Knitting Update on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I got really sick of making hats and scarves and other tiny things, and I decided it was time to just bite the bullet and get over my fear of tackling something larger. So I went to Webs, asked for help picking out an easy first sweater pattern, and then spent about 40 minutes sitting [...]
Community Garden!
Posted in Gardening, Local food, Western Massachusetts, seasons on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I signed up for a plot at the Northampton Community Garden this year, so now I have my very own little 20×20 space to grow whatever I want. There’s a picture of it. That compost barrel was left by the previous tenant, which was an unexpected bonus. Ok, so maybe it’s not breathtaking quite yet, but rest [...]
Sunday Cooking Project: Bread Pudding
Posted in How to make things, Sunday Cooking Projects on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had a loaf a sourdough flax-seed bread sitting on my shelf, getting a little harder and less palatable every day, so I decided to make it into bread pudding. Usually you can’t just slap the word “pudding” on the end of whatever you’ve got going stale in your kitchen and make it edible again, [...]
Taking the stairs for fun and fitness and also so you never have to drink your own urine.
Posted in Holy Crap on April 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Did anyone else see this story in the New Yorker about the guy, Nicholas White, who was trapped in an elevator for 41 hours? Just sit back for a second and think about the last 41 hours, and the ways in which they would have been different if you’d been trapped, alone and without food or water, [...]
Sugaring Season Special: Gould’s Sugarhouse
Posted in Farms, Local food, Sugaring Season Special, Western Massachusetts on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I think this is the end of sugaring season for me. There might be a few sugar shacks that’ll be open for another week or so, but I’ve gone to one every weekend for six weeks straight, and that’s a lot of pancakes for one girl to eat, and I don’t think anyone is [...]
A comment on ricotta
Posted in Farms, Local food, Western Massachusetts on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Farmstead at Mine Brook in Charlemont, which produces Goat Rising goat cheeses and Jersey Maid cow’s milk cheeses, is really onto something with their ricotta. I tend to think of ricotta as being basically the most bland cheese in the whole world, and usually I don’t even know why I add it to things. Just [...]
Sunday Cooking Project: Calzones
Posted in Fermentation, How to make things, Local food, Sunday Cooking Projects, seasons on April 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My cooking life has two constant shaping factors, which are 1) my sourdough starter and 2) the ebb and flow of local veggies. The first matters because sourdough starter has to be “fed” once a week, which means that every week I produce more of it, which means that every week I either have to [...]
