It is a grey day here and the snow has once again started to fall - 5-7” are due today. I guess I will be snow blowing a bit later.

Look who is growing

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Has anybody else noticed how much NJ’s Governor Chris Christie is like Dudley in the Harry Potter movies ( Read more... )

SUN! Again! And…I got to sleep in this morning - until Morgan crawled all over me indicating she want to be fed her breakfast.

BBC radio 4 has a program that I listen to quite regularly called On Your Farm. It is always interesting an highlights new ideas that are developing in the farming world. last weekends entry was about a Cumbrain farmer ( Read more... )

The National Gallery has re-launched its site to offer full-screen zoom facility for it entire collection. Users can now examine every National Gallery masterpiece 
in outstanding detail, effortlessly sweep across digital canvases and 
zoom into minute details of their choosing. - Cool ( Read more... )

The garden catalogs have started to arrive. Enough said ( Read more... )

Right at the moment I am being visited by Nuit, who obviously has been rolling in something! Stinky cat! She is also finding that it is quite fun to crawl through the various bits of paper on my desk top, of course, rearranging them to suit herself. Hum ( Read more... )

I'm awake, my stomach is growling (I blame this on Mark Bittman), its raining not snowing so I am all around pretty happy this morning. There is a lot to do today so I can't be typing away here for too long. Here are some interesting articles and videos I ran across early this morning while doing my daily read ( Read more... )

I used to love Campbell’s Tomato soup. It was comfort food. Then it changed and hasn’t been the same since. I even went so far as to complain to the company via snail mail and their reply was that nothing had been changed. Well, in reading this article in the NYT this morning…there was a change…the most basic ingredient…the tomato.

The Return of a ( Read more... )