I'd meant to get this post up sooner, but this summer has turned out to be an unusually busy one. It's not the usual way of things in our kitchen to get overtime in July and August, but there you are. There's been just enough events to keep us occupied, and now that we have enough staff we're starting to make more things from scratch - for example ( Read more... )

One: every guy I know in Seattle, including myself, has back problems. What the hell? I'm now convinced that bad backs are viral. I know what I've been doing to cause my bad back, but I dunno what the rest of you have been up to in my absence ( Read more... )

My mom is finally selling the house that her father built for our family in the late seventies. Our family has lots of furniture, most of which came from my Me-Maw's ratty tract house in Meridian, Mississippi. She'd been collecting bits and pieces for years, and as a result I grew up with an old Victrola in the front hall and heavy, ugly gold- ( Read more... )