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Summer’s end in the garden

Chris — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 23:40:26 +0000

All in all, it hasn’t been a bad summer in my vegetable garden. Strangely cool and mostly beautiful weather has given me tomatoes that just keep setting fruit at a nicely measured pace. Only once this summer did I find myself temporarily overwhelmed with tomatoes ripening all at once. That batch went into tomato soup. [...]

New look for my blog

Chris — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:29:04 +0000

I’ve been working for the past few weeks on a new look for this blog. I get bored with the same old look, plus I enjoy fiddling with how the blog looks and works as much or more than actually writing anything for it! This time, after admiring Pauline Kenny’s new blog Slow Travels, I [...]

A new year, a new blog

Chris — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:11:03 +0000

Happy New Year! Today seems like the perfect day to launch my new blog. I’ve moved all my old blog entries over from slowtrav, where it was previously hosted. I’m working on getting them removed there, but this is now the official version, since I never gave up ownership of my words or photos.

Things I have done

Chris — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 14:41:00 +0000

I copied this list from Kim. This is such an odd mix of significant and insignificant events. That speeding motorcycle, which may seem insignificant, had a huge effect on my life. I loved a ride with a friend back in 1983, so signed up to take a class to learn to ride myself. Frank was [...]