We have had over a week of afternoon monsoons. Hardly anybody is complaining about it - it's so very exotic for 'round these parts. Rain in the afternoon. Rain in the evening. Rain meaning a very big drop or two of something wet from the sky - so big and so wet that you are sure it's a bird dropping and check. Cycling in it has been wonderful.
We are still getting an appearance of that hot yellow orb in the sky and a large enough dose that many of us are plenty nut brown enough for the season.
Some of the tomato plants are taller than me.
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Tomatoes, New Zealand music, chasing wee Babbo with syringes full of insulin, real and virtual communities, potlucks, espresso and beer, goofy hips, and our next holiday.
What's the weather like here?
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Tomatohead's bits
- Tomatohead
- bishop, california, United States
- Now that I live in the middle of the desert, I get positively weepy when I think about Asian noodle dishes. Other than that, life is good. We chug along as a family surrounded by a wonderful community of friends - near and far. We rock out when the odd band graces us with their presence. We potluck all the time. We like our espresso, beer, whisky, cured pork products, and chocolate.
Join us, it's bliss!
Kegger - what's on tap at the Schoberlews
- Firestone - Union Jack
Chocolate, coffee beans, and other goodies living in the pantry
- Dried Mango
- Glenmorangie Quinta Ruban Port Wood Finish Highland Malt
- Black Sheep Espresso - Oro Northern Italian roasted beans
On heavy rotation
- Wintersun - The Broken Heartbreakers
- The Able Tasmans - School is no good for you
- Piewarmer - Fucked if I Know
2009's tomato shortlist
- "Black Russian" saved seed from a plant given to me two years ago
- Big Beef, I know, a hybrid
- Black Cherry
- Black from Tula
- Black Krim
- Debarao - New
- Earl of Edgecome
- Grandeur (hybrid) - New
- Japanese Black Trifele - New
- Jaune Flammee
- Kellogg's Breakfast
- Kosovo
- Pimientos de Padron - the Interloper!
- Snow White Cherry
- Yellow Plum
On the nighstand
- a backlog of The Economist
- a year's worth of New Yorkers
The report card said, "Needs Improvement"
- Eating more salads
- My short temper with my husband
- My short temper with my child
- My short temper with my dad
- My short temper
These are a few of my favorite things
- Cycling around the Valley
- the insulin I hoard in my fridge
- the freedom my parents' current health affords my family
- Francoise Hardy's fringe
- Spring and autumn in the Owens Valley
- Te Hapu
- Skiing by myself
- Street food
- Planning my next holiday a year out
- When "the boy" really gets excited about learning
1 comment:
So have we! It's been incredibly wonderful. Rain makes me feel so cheerful and we hardly ever get any in a high altitude desert. It rained all last night with heaps of thunder and lightning. And it's been raining softly all day today.
If I don't look around too much, I can pretend I'm in wonderful, wonderful Oregon.
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