The Pleasures of Winter

By: Windroot Monday February 1, 2010 3:42 pm

This year’s winter here in the mid-Atlantic region has been reminiscent of the winters of the 1950’s that I grew up with in New England. This is a winter with teeth.

Food Sunday: Winter Picnic

By: TobyWollin Sunday November 29, 2009 1:30 pm
(Promoted by justjim73 - Except for the musical toilets - no, it's not what you think - I would highly recommend all of these delights that Aunt Toby has in store.)

Groan. Right about now, the thought of turkey anything is enough to make the residents of Chez Siberia lock themselves in the bathroom (and considering that there are only 1.5, this could result in a rather interesting game of musical toilets..), but even the Siberians must eat. And, as luck (bad) would have it, The Boy had a birthday celebration intermixed in all this and asked for (hurrah!) an event that actually hearkened back to a period when our family was…mmm…shall we say….how should Aunt Toby put this?

Well, we weren’t exactly going out to eat on a regular basis due to lack of discretionary income.

Hope is a Thing – with Dirt

By: TobyWollin Saturday March 7, 2009 1:14 pm

Even during the winter, plants are waiting to wake up and grow in the garden

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