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Spring garden

  As I get ready to go away for a week, I’m wrapping up my spring garden by harvesting the rest of the spinach and the bok choi and freezing the part I can’t eat. I’ve been eating the asparagus (and feeding it to friends) pretty much as I’ve gone along. I had a great…

Finding Pekoe

I just had a slight panic, but all is well now. I was getting sleepy and thinking of going to bed early when I realized that I hadn’t seen Pekoe for a while. Thinking back, I realized it was a long while. The last I could remember was when he was getting tangled up in…

Dumpling House & a minor accident

Alex and I saw this review in the Boston Globe, so we decided to try The Dumpling House on Mass Ave. in Cambridge. The Dumpling House, Cambridge The whole experience was very much like eating in Chinatown. First it took forever to find a legal parking space, and the one we found was about a half…

My first birthday

My brother just sent me this video, which he created from one of my father’s old 8mm home movies. Travel back with me into the past to my first birthday party, August 1947, in Stratford CT. Surrounded by parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Kind of blurry and way too short, but wonderful to have!…