Archive for July, 2008

John Wyatt, RIP

By cmf
July 30, 2008
John Wyatt, RIP

We each have that one professor — you know what I mean, the one who no matter what he teaches, you’re signing up for it. The one who you really really want to impress — or maybe impress is the wrong word, it smacks of falseness, of pulling something over on a person...
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Putting up supplies …

By cmf
July 28, 2008

I’ll have some garden pictures soon — it’s been a strange summer in the garden. Summer started so late, and then got hot fairly quickly, so some things, like the peas didn’t really work this summer. I got a few peas, but the vines burned up before they could really produce much.The arugula bolted...
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Bears are Back in Town …

By cmf
July 18, 2008

Well, actually not in town, at least not that I’ve heard, but they’re out and about in the mountains. My pretend children and their dad were up in Suce Creek last weekend where people were coming out of the trail saying there was a sow grizzly with a yearling back up in there, and...
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Everyone’s Downsizing …

By cmf
July 10, 2008

I always see a fair number of bikes in town in the summer — it’s pretty flat here, and town isn’t that big, and of course, we’re all locked in our houses for six to nine months a year, so once nice weather hits, there’s a lot of biking and walking. But I’m definitely...
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My Beautiful French Jam Pot

By cmf
July 7, 2008
My Beautiful French Jam Pot

Behold, my gorgeous
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Straw Mulch

By cmf
July 4, 2008
Straw Mulch

I don’t know why it’s taken me five years of gardening in these beds to see the light as far as mulch goes, but I’m a convert. I mulched the tomatoes in the new beds first — it gets really hot against that fence, the remote thermometer routinely reads in the high 90s...
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Rodeo Slack

By cmf
July 2, 2008

Independence Day is a three-day event here in Livingston, and the centerpiece is the Livingston Roundup Rodeo. There are so many rodeos in this part of the country over the holiday that they call it “Cowboy Christmas” — most of these riders will do two, three or four rodeos over the weekend chasing the...
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