Archive for July, 2007

Links of the Day …

By cmf
July 31, 2007

From CNN: Eat your Yard From Salon: Why I pick lettuce for the Black Panthers
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Some Women Buy Shoes …

By cmf
July 31, 2007
Some Women Buy Shoes …

… to console themselves after a breakup, and some women buy the complete Tales of Chekhov. Because Katherine asked in the comments below, and because he’s been a semi-regular character here on LivingSmall, it seems only fair to mention that the Mighty Hunter will not be making such regular appearances in the future. We...
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Prepping for Another Hot Week

By cmf
July 22, 2007

Hot. It’s hot hot hot here. We’re going into another week of 100 degree weather, and with the crazy pace my day job at the Big Corporation lately, I took the opportunity to prep some cold food in advance. I roasted a baby chicken one night last week when it wasn’t so brutal out, and...
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Rain!

By cmf
July 18, 2007

It rained yesterday — we even got a big fat thunderstorm/downpour in the afternoon. It’s the biggest adjustment when one grows up east of the high plains where it actually rains on a regular basis — living out here where we average only about 14 inches of rain a year — well, that quarter...
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Dinner …

By cmf
July 17, 2007

Work at the Big Corporation has been crazy lately — and last night was one of those evenings where I just couldn’t figure out what to do about dinner. It was hot — we’re having a heat wave — and although I have some gorgeous fava beans, I wasn’t inspired to do anything with...
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Too Much Fun …

By cmf
July 5, 2007
Too Much Fun …

The Fourth of July is a three-day-event here in Livingston, although this year things kicked off a day early with the unbelievably great concert called “A Song Runs Through It”. It was worth the three hours in the blazing sun to see my beloved Rosanne Cash sing four songs off Black Cadillac“, acoustic, backed...
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