Monthly Archives: July 2008

This past week

I’m having a hard time getting back into work mode after so much traveling this summer (two weeks with my parents, two weeks with Sydney’s parents, and a week-long conference).  My goal is to get a very good and very … Continue reading

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inside/outside

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Zucchini land

The harvest has begun to get bountiful around here.  You know those zucchini Sydney posted about a few days ago?  Well, we still have half the pile left and we’ve made a zucchini casserole, zucchini bread, and Sydney used 25 … Continue reading

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mouser

Our cat won’t eat mice. Christi’s chickens, on the other hand … She didn’t even turn blue in the face like my chickens used to.

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zucchini

I’m officially tired of rain now. One should not be able to go whitewater rafting down the road outside one’s house every day. But it didn’t rain for a little while this morning so I went to the garden. I … Continue reading

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Virginia

Yesterday I drove down to Virginia to be there in good time for a friend’s (Jared Stutzman, for those of you who know him) wedding today and to go to the pre-rehearsal dinner last night and catch up with some … Continue reading

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Faulkner conference

The conference started yesterday, and they’re keeping us busy with lectures and panels and the like.  Yesterday evening I walked with another girl to the fish fry (yep, you heard me: it was fried catfish, hush puppies, and french fries) … Continue reading

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Funny what you find when driving the backroads of Mississippi

Mom and I took off in the car today to hunt down some Civil War battleground sites not too far from here.  We started too late and had to reconsider our plans, but on the way we stumbled across Elvis’s … Continue reading

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How long?

CBC has a piece about a woman in Maine who found a python in her washing machine when she was removing clothes from it. She’s a bit paranoid about doing laundry now. I’m still a bit curious as to how … Continue reading

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Southern cooking . . . and that’s just the beginning

Sydney dropped me off at the Ithaca airport this morning at 5 and Mom picked me up in St. Louis at 9:30.  Since then we’ve driven straight south and I’m currently writing from the main library on the Ole Miss … Continue reading

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