Ok, vacation. Greta and I spent some time before the trip working on a google doc (brilliant) spreadsheet to plan the meals we’d each cook and what groceries we were each bringing. I hadn’t thought of using google docs and it was perfect–I highly recommend them if you’re working on anything like an address list [...]
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Lakeside eats (and silliness)
Posted in Cooking, Farm Box, Food, Life in the Big Woods, Travel, tagged CSA on August 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Vacation time!
Posted in Life in the Big Woods, Travel on July 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hurray! We’re off to the lake for a week with our friends Chris and Greta (and, of course, baby Jack)!! Greta and I have become crazy people with multiple shared spreadsheets planning meals, groceries and packing lists. The car is about to be fuller than it has ever been. The lake house has internet!! Ahem. [...]
Bon Voyage, Tom!
Posted in Family, Food, General, Life in the Big Woods, Travel, tagged Food on April 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I spent this weekend back up in Hanover helping my brother Tom get ready to leave for a two-month trip through Europe to absorb great works of architecture. He’s a smart puppy who won a travel grant to fund this trip. Since graduating from Dartmouth last June he designed and built a new timber-framed sugarhouse [...]
Moving day
Posted in General, Home, Life in the Big Woods on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
We move to Cambridge tomorrow. Things look like this around here: But worse now. I apologize for the lack of posts over the last month; hopefully I will return to something approaching normal life soon!
Mini-break
Posted in Life in the Big Woods, Travel on May 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Wheee, back from a mini-vacation: We went to our friend Ann’s parents’ lake house in Maine for Memorial Day weekend, and basically did nothing for three days. There was kayaking and a bit of walking around, and a couple plunges in the not-as-icy-as-expected lake, but for the most part we drank wine, sat on the [...]
Suspicion of Ramps
Posted in Food, Life in the Big Woods, tagged Food on May 17, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I got out of the car today (I am now a licensed driver, and had just done my first solo set of errands), and was hit by a wave of onion scent. I was frantically carrying in groceries, so I didn’t think much of it, but a little while later it hit me: Ramps! (Photo [...]
Distracted by Bikes
Posted in City Life, Family, Life in the Big Woods on May 14, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Something I never thought would happen…has happened. I have bikes on the brain, and want to go out riding. You should know that my dad has bike commuted since I was a kid (I remember watching for his bike light out the window when I was 6), and my brother is really into alternative transport [...]
Winter to Summer
Posted in Food, Life in the Big Woods, tagged Food on May 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
There wasn’t much spring here in New Hampshire this year–it’s gone straight to summer, and right now it is 85 degrees. The good news is that we have nice cool nights, much like back home in Oregon, so the sleeping is still good. The birds, however, are not sleeping well–they were up at 4:30 this [...]
Spanakopita Fest
Posted in Food, Life in the Big Woods, tagged Food on May 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Last Thursday we hosted a surprise 30th birthday party for our friend Chris. Preparations involved quite a few weeks of subterfuge by his wife Ann, and we spent several days shopping and cooking before the party, all uner the guise of driving lessons for me. The week before we spent a memorable afternoon making about [...]
Barbecuing
Posted in Cooking techniques, Food, Life in the Big Woods, tagged Food on May 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For the second night feeding the boys, we grilled burgers and sausage and ate outside. We invited Chris and Ann over to talk marketing with the college kids, and then Brian and Liz came over to play catch and we asked them to stay, too. All 8 of us squeezed around the table on the [...]
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