Banana melon, some 15 inches long. It tasted like a really sweet cantaloupe. I am SO tired of melons that taste like cantaloupe. What ever happened to old-fashioned watermelons that were sweet, juicy and red inside?
Archive for August, 2010
As Pictured Below: Bowlful of Melon
Posted in CSA, Eats, Photographs, tagged cantaloupe, CSA, farm, food, melons, photograph, watermelons on August 28, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Update: Shaggerty General Hospital
Posted in Cats, Family, tagged cats, chronic renal failure, husband, kidney failure, marriage, medication, pills, snacks, sub-Q on August 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s Thursday, and both husband and cat are still alive. It turns out that Yin’s unwillingness to chew anything for more than a decade makes hiding pills in his food pretty easy. And he doesn’t seem to mind the sub-Q treatment as long as somebody is handing him snacks. So for now, he’s a willing [...]
Calgon? Miller? Anybody?
Posted in Cats, Family, tagged adulthood, angry bees, animals, appliances, cats, husband, kidney failure, marriage, married, medications, refrigerator, stress, sub-Q, subcutaneous fluids on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
14-year-old cat requires four medications per day, plus subcutaneous fluids. Husband has a dermatological bandage to be watched and changed. The refrigerator is making a noise reminiscent of angry bees. I have never felt more grownup, married or inept.
As Pictured Below: The lemur abides
Posted in As Pictured Below, Family, Photographs, tagged animals, beastie, childhood, creepy dolls, grandmother, lemur, mother, plastic dolls, toys on August 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
What manner of beastie is this? A lemur, perhaps? I remember being quite fond of him when I was a child. Specifically, I remember chewing his long, rubbery tail (you can see it’s a bit stubby at the end). My mom was kind enough to ferry him home from my grandmother’s house. She was also [...]
As Pictured Below: Fair Trade Find
Posted in As Pictured Below, Photographs, tagged baskets, chocolate, coffee, fair trade, farmers, handcrafted, Huntsville, jewelry, mall, non-profit, Parkway Place, pottery, resin, ring, toys, Trade-Fair Marketplace, volunteers on August 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
A former co-worker told me about Huntsville’s Trade-Fair Marketplace months ago, and I finally wandered in today. The non-profit store, run by volunteers, offers an eclectic array of handcrafted jewelry, baskets, rugs, pottery and toys, along with an assortment of coffee and chocolate. The goal of the store, and other fair-trade organizations, is to ensure [...]
Saving a mediocre watermelon
Posted in Eats, Photographs, tagged cats, farm, farmer, granita, green sherbet glasses, ice cream freezer, ICEE, lime, sherbet glasses, sorbet, summer, tomatoes, watermelon, zest on August 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
One of my favorite local farmers, the guy who sells tomatoes and whatnot out of the back of his truck in front of Hartlex Antiques in Madison, Ala., warned me last week that the watermelons weren’t all that this summer, but I had a jones and could not easily be talked out of buying one. [...]
Autumn is such a tease
Posted in CSA, Home, Photographs, tagged August, autumn, cat, CSA, fall, fireplace mantel, gourd, Halloween, marshmallows, Pier 1, trick-or-treat, trick-or-treaters on August 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
No, Pier 1 Cat, it is NOT fair for something that is so reminiscent of fall to arrive in the CSA box during the hot, hot first week of August. We should be double-checking the marshmallow stocks and finding new ways to dodge trick-or-treaters with this gem on the fireplace mantel.
Tempest in a Tupperware Tea Pitcher
Posted in Cats, Family, Photographs, tagged books, bookworm, childhood, gaudy, grandmother, mother, stuffed animals, tea set, teacup, tomboy, toys, Tupperware, unbreakable on August 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Everything anyone needs to know about me as a little girl is reflected in my favorite childhood tea set, recently rescued from the highest shelves of my grandmother’s hall closet by my mom. Made of unbreakable, dishwasher-safe Tupperware, it’s decidedly non-delicate, perfect for non-delicate little girls. It showcased an array of gaudy colors, as did [...]
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