Ventured out from southern Oregon last weekend to spend time with my family. We went to the pumpkin patch and celebrated my brother Brant's birthday. Posted my pictures on Flickr over here and took a few silent 12-second videos of the day as well. They are quite amusing, if I do say so myself (and I do). :)
Click on a picture to see the video!
I have never read any of Barbara Kingsolver's novels (recommendations, anyone?) but I had to pick up this book when I was at Powells last week. I read about it in Sojourners magazine, I think. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is the narrative-treatise-inspirational tale of the time when Kingsolver and her husband and their two girls moved back to the family farm in Appalachia and determined as a family to eat locally--from their own farm or their neighbor's--for a year. I love Kingsolver's narrative voice and the interwining of the nearly forgotton history of agriculture and food consumption in the United States (and around the world). Also interspersed within the narrative are essays by her husband and her teenage daughter, who also includes some of her favorite recipes.
The book just feels good to read. The cover paper is very tactile and the pages of the book are the uneven, raw cut kind, which I love. The ideas in the book are great food for the mind and soul too--not to mention the body.
The book just feels good to read. The cover paper is very tactile and the pages of the book are the uneven, raw cut kind, which I love. The ideas in the book are great food for the mind and soul too--not to mention the body.
Book: Show us a book that you like to give as a gift.
Submitted by Ross.
Incidentally, I also like to receive this book...which is why I bought it for myself with Christmas money from Grandpa. :)
What websites do you visit every day?
Submitted by Chez Michelle.
- Bloglines--to read my favorite blogs
- Vox--to see what my neighbors are up to
- Awake--my blog, to find links to my friend's blogs that I don't have in bloglines for no good reason
- Backpack--to view my calendar, add notes-to-self, reminders, to-do lists, and ideas for sooner or later
- Gmail--to read my mail
- NWREL--my employer's website, which I work on daily
- NWREL's Intranet--to do my work
- Various Movable Type installations--to administer sites and blogs for business and for pleasure
- Various phpMyAdmin installations--to administer mySQL databases at work
- Google--to find what I'm looking for, or not (depends on if what I'm looking for can be found on the InterWebs)
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