Thursday, July 16, 2009

Zucchini Tears

All of the hard work back in April and May is starting to pay off. We are now harvesting a variety of fresh veggies from the garden.


Tiny patti-pan squash are hiding in the leaves. They look like the torch on the statue of Liberty when they still have their flower heads on.



Fresh cabbage has already shown up in two varieties of slaw salad as well as a stir fry with lo mein noodles.







The kale is a little past prime but the beautiful green, red and bluish leaves are too pretty to tear down quite yet.


The real clinker showed up in the kitchen last night. I knew there was a zucchini that was starting to get large. I should have picked it a day earlier since they have a tendency to turn into baseball bats in a day. When we brought it into the house the immediate thought was zucchini bread. That's the only proper ending for a nice big zuke.

After searching the recipe box with 30 years worth of memories, the tiny little piece of paper with Agnes' recipe surfaced. Like every recipe I have from her, it's written in her impossibly tiny little script. When the cancer got in her brain, one of the most notable changes initially was in her hand writing. It had been so perfect and small and then all of the sudden signatures and sentences started swooping uphill to the right like birds taking flight. We didn't know if she could see the difference and no one was about to say a thing.

It only took that one little piece of paper and those tiny little letters to remember an old kitchen in a rented farm house......... the many years of working on this house..... and all the picnics in the back yard with the now gone dogs. Too many memories and so many tears in a zucchini bread recipe.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

photo @ Olga Morgan
Many thanks to Olga who showed up at the gallery opening last Friday with a wonderful big bouquet of a dozen roses. Nothing like that to make you feel like a star!! We also had a couple of the local tv news folks there as well as other friends, fans and new acquaintances.
The picture is a close up of the detail in the Weathered Heart sculpture. I love the distressed copper and am inspired to make a group of much larger copper pieces. The soft nature of that metal has captured my attention recently. Too bad I have to go beat on a bent steel part that sheared off the bush-hog over the weekend. That will burst your bubble.

Sunday, July 12, 2009

The Storytellers



Can there be any higher calling in life than being a storyteller - a raconteur?? I hope to be that some day.

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Now Hanging......




First Fridays Gallery Walk tomorrow night in Downtown Charlottesville. Come view the nearly two dozen pieces of metal wall sculpture I have installed at the Spring Street Boutique in the downtown mall. Opening with libations from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Be there!!

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

YeeHaaWW!!!

These girls just crack me up. Their album dropped this past week and I believe it's going in the Amazon shopping cart along with some sunscreen for my tin roof tan........


Those Darlins "Snaggletooth Mama" from Lake Fever Sessions on Vimeo.

Monday, July 6, 2009

Major Party Coming On!!!



OMG - tomorrow is the day!! The piece of sh$t dishwasher that has been leaky and abandoned for two years is finally going away from here. We went to Sears on Friday and ordered a new top of the line beauty with a STAINLESS STEEL liner. It's the freaking Starship Enterprise dishwasher. The subcontrator just called and confirmed the installation appointment for tomorrow afternoon. I feel a serious cooking binge coming on since I won't have to wash everything by hand.

** YAY YAY YAY **

Friday, June 26, 2009

SNARK ALERT 911



Subject: Inside word from Sanford

It was a slight miscommunication between Sanford and his staff. He told them he'd be "spiking some Argentina tail," and they thought he'd said, "hiking the Appalachian trail." It was an honest mistake. I think they handled it well...family values and all.