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A thirty something tomboy gets a present from the stork: ...."We've also discovered that she will bring whatever is in her hands to her mouth. ...Mostly there's nothing in arm's reach to swallow, except mom's hair, which has been falling out in droves (another neat pregnancy trick). Do babies get hairballs?"....   

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August 2009



Blight makes Right

Sunday, 30 August 2009 7:12 A GMT-05
Yesterday, in the remnants of Danny, we reluctantly removed from the garden 60 dying blighted tomato plants and the subsequent 50 or 60 pounds of unusable fruit--gorgeous, beautiful fruit except for the spreading brown spots which we knew would only

Down and Dirty

Tuesday, 25 August 2009 5:43 A GMT-05
Lionel had gone off to a college reunion in New York City, and left me behind to tend hearth, child and farm. So I did.  With some help from Grandma, who took it upon herself to entertain the Bundle, I split and stacked a cord of wood, cleaned t

Summer in August. Who'da thought?

Sunday, 16 August 2009 8:48 P GMT-05
Just in time for fall, summer has finally arrived here at Big House Farms.  And its none too soon.  Our basil is sputtering, our corn is stunted, and our beans, while finally putting out fruit, are hardly the beautiful specimens we'd im

Home on the Range/All in a Name

Saturday, 8 August 2009 7:40 A GMT-05
Today we had a small gathering honoring the C portion of the LARC household. 

Dear Mr. President: Bud Light is not beer.

Sunday, 2 August 2009 7:27 A GMT-05
Now that I've got that off my chest, I can move on to more important subjects, such as New Hampshire's slow, inexorable transformation into New Seattle.  In the last rain storm we had, which dumped almost four inches of rain on us, the r