Category: Asparagus
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Asparagus forever
Would you just eat asparagus for every meal? asked Stoic the Vast when we had so much growing in the yard that I could easily have had it three times a day. Yes, said I. Who wouldn’t? Well, evidently, himself for one. We’ve got a wee bit in our new yard but, mostly, I’ll be…
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A fine day for running off the rails; roasted asparagus with a college education
This would be the day for going stark-raving, nutso, bat-crap, screaming like a banshee, inhaling everything in sight, edible and non-. The air is like damp, gray wool. I’m reading William Styron, the master of depressive darkness. It’s Daughter’s Day and one daughter won’t answer the phone, the other had her daughter answer rudely. I’m afraid…
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Mother’s Day breakfast
I’m not going to start in on Mother’s Day, oh well, maybe just a little. I talked to all of our daughters, heard some grandchildren screeching in the background; we took a small picnic and a big thermos of coffee to a park on the Yadkin River in Forsythe County; we came home and stretched…