New Release Brothers from The Black Keys being released May 18th. Check out Next Girl and Tighten Up heeeeere.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Ear Candy: The Black Keys
New Release Brothers from The Black Keys being released May 18th. Check out Next Girl and Tighten Up heeeeere.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Via Cotty: Doo Nanny
ohhhh mannn --- this is all sorts of beautiful. Twigs as windows, rusty bedsprings as wall decor and a art/music festival organized by the creator of this dreamy cabin? In rural Alabama? yesssss.
Get the details and the rest of the slideshow here because my computer is running out of juice.
Love it.
Get the details and the rest of the slideshow here because my computer is running out of juice.
Love it.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Today on the Farm: Soft & Cuddly Edition
The baby ducklings have arrived! And they're adorable!
I especially like the little guy in the top left standing on top of the feeder. I feel like it's a duck maneuver that can basically be understood as "I came for the starter feed, but I stayed to party."
This lady was very excited for her close-up:
The ducks arrived via USPS from Iowa, and the Bertonis had picked up the peeping package by 8am. The ducks are a mix of Blue Runners, Fawn and White Runners, Khaki Campbells, and White Pekins.
The female Runners and Campbells should start laying eggs in about 5 months - just in time for their egg production to slow down with the shortening length of days, and then once Spring 2011 comes around hopefully they will become Mama ducks and get excited about tending to their nests.
The White Pekins are being raised for meat, and are already a little bigger than the other breeds.
In less fuzzy, but equally exciting news, I had some Martha's Vineyard visitors on the farm yesterday! My lovely friends Meredith and Emily came with their friends Kelly and Dawn, and it was so great to see them. Meredith is starting up Singing Frog Farm in Leesburg, VA specializing in fresh cut flowers and heirloom vegetables -- super excited for her, and to get up there and see it for myself.
I forgot my camera, but we drove by this pretty vista before going to get dinner, and I was lucky enough to drive by it again today with camera but without their lovely faces:::
Other happenings on the farm have included::: seeding carrots and parsnips; mice digging up the recently seeded sunflowers and having a feast; mice being strongly discouraged from continuing previously stated activities; replanting the perennial garden with lupine, sage, seeds from Kathryn's brother's wedding, and guerrilla style seed planting/ tossing of coriander and dill; Lochsa the dog killing a rat and snake; planting the potatoes; seeding beets; transplanting some dill; seeding fennel; spotting black eyed susans; making really long lists; continuing to make really long lists; ok fine I'll stop, but I do love me a good list.
And I will end with a picture of beet seeds, because in their funkiness they add to my rock and roll beet dreams:::
Photo by Angelina Williamson.
I especially like the little guy in the top left standing on top of the feeder. I feel like it's a duck maneuver that can basically be understood as "I came for the starter feed, but I stayed to party."
This lady was very excited for her close-up:
The ducks arrived via USPS from Iowa, and the Bertonis had picked up the peeping package by 8am. The ducks are a mix of Blue Runners, Fawn and White Runners, Khaki Campbells, and White Pekins.
The female Runners and Campbells should start laying eggs in about 5 months - just in time for their egg production to slow down with the shortening length of days, and then once Spring 2011 comes around hopefully they will become Mama ducks and get excited about tending to their nests.
The White Pekins are being raised for meat, and are already a little bigger than the other breeds.
In less fuzzy, but equally exciting news, I had some Martha's Vineyard visitors on the farm yesterday! My lovely friends Meredith and Emily came with their friends Kelly and Dawn, and it was so great to see them. Meredith is starting up Singing Frog Farm in Leesburg, VA specializing in fresh cut flowers and heirloom vegetables -- super excited for her, and to get up there and see it for myself.
I forgot my camera, but we drove by this pretty vista before going to get dinner, and I was lucky enough to drive by it again today with camera but without their lovely faces:::
Other happenings on the farm have included::: seeding carrots and parsnips; mice digging up the recently seeded sunflowers and having a feast; mice being strongly discouraged from continuing previously stated activities; replanting the perennial garden with lupine, sage, seeds from Kathryn's brother's wedding, and guerrilla style seed planting/ tossing of coriander and dill; Lochsa the dog killing a rat and snake; planting the potatoes; seeding beets; transplanting some dill; seeding fennel; spotting black eyed susans; making really long lists; continuing to make really long lists; ok fine I'll stop, but I do love me a good list.
And I will end with a picture of beet seeds, because in their funkiness they add to my rock and roll beet dreams:::
Photo by Angelina Williamson.
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
When & If
If you're in the market for a boat, I'd go ahead and start your looking here::
:: or better yet - steer your friend who is looking for a boat in this direction.
When & If is a 63 ft Alden Schooner that was orginally built for Gen. Patton to sail around the world "when and if" he survived WWII.
I'll be available as crew for you. Don't worry.
:: or better yet - steer your friend who is looking for a boat in this direction.
When & If is a 63 ft Alden Schooner that was orginally built for Gen. Patton to sail around the world "when and if" he survived WWII.
I'll be available as crew for you. Don't worry.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Read Your Vegetables
After taking a silly-long time, I finally finished Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle this past weekend::
I'm going to pass the buck on a proper-style review, but I will say that it is totally delightful, and encouraging. The NYT has more to say here.
Reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was also the push that I needed to order the goods to make mozzarella at home and then enjoy it on top of the homemade pizza crust made from a recipe in Kingsolver's book -- and really, when was the last time a book led you to making your own soft cheese? (...besides maybe when you checked out Ricki Carroll's Home Cheesemaking from the library last week. If you haven't given it a look yet, I'll also add that it's pretty fantastic.)
I'm going to pass the buck on a proper-style review, but I will say that it is totally delightful, and encouraging. The NYT has more to say here.
Reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was also the push that I needed to order the goods to make mozzarella at home and then enjoy it on top of the homemade pizza crust made from a recipe in Kingsolver's book -- and really, when was the last time a book led you to making your own soft cheese? (...besides maybe when you checked out Ricki Carroll's Home Cheesemaking from the library last week. If you haven't given it a look yet, I'll also add that it's pretty fantastic.)
Monday, April 19, 2010
Ear Candy: Dr. Dog
Dr. Dog released a new album a couple of weeks ago::
Hope you enjoy the single Stranger here
Happy Monday!
Hope you enjoy the single Stranger here
Happy Monday!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
This Week on the Farm
Lots of yummy things got trans-planted this week -- chard, beets, and cabbage -- and some of the potatoes got in the ground as well.
Saturday was all blue skies and springtime at the Charlottesville City Market, and we had those beautiful radishes in the photo above, arugula, mizuna, spinach and plenty of plants waiting to go in your garden for sale.
Hope everyone had delicious, fresh meals this weekend!
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