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Gardeners are among the world's most charming snobs. Rightly so: As with music and mathematics, the more you know, the more elegant your work. Erudition is valued, and so is a smattering of pretension. If you are a geek looking to put down roots, welcome to gardening. We offer you common ground. Think of it as localized terraforming, if that helps.
Before you start, though, contemplate your knees and knuckles, and get ready for hard, sweaty work. As with making babies, people can't really imagine what they are getting into when they plan to tangle with the trowels and hoses. The sketches and explanations on the following pages will inspire you to stake out, nurture, and defend your tiny patch of Earth, feed your loved ones, and even sequester a bit of carbon. How smart is that?
Before you head outside, let's get you dressed. No clogs with flowers on them. Look for some skateboard pants at your local thrift shop; they are roomy, with deep pockets and durable fabric, and readily available, given the current epidemic of plantar fasciitis among young skaters, who seem determined to inflict upon themselves the aches and pains of old men. You'll want white socks, pulled up over the cuffs of the pants—a kind of reverse tribute to the black-socks-and-sandals look of our science-geek cousins—and heavy work boots. You will understand why no one gardens in sneakers the first time you drop your secateurs (note term, more anon) and they land point down in your flesh. Oh, and you get to wear gear on your belt—hooks, a holster for tools. No iPods. Gardeners listen to birds.
Now, the dirt on dirt. The garden is no place for it. Dirt has to do with Tide, Maytags, and Dysons. Soil is what we talk about when we talk about gardening; earth, if you are poetical.
Soil is about as interesting as anything gets in this life. It's a mixture of rock particles, water, air, organic matter, and microorganisms—lovely creatures such as nematodes, protozoa, fungi, bacteria, and actinomycetes. O the varieties of being! Only 45 percent of soil consists of minerals, with particles ranging in size from clay (less than 0.00008 inch in diameter) to silt (0.00008 to 0.002 inch) to sand (0.002 to 0.08 inch). Clay makes for terrific soil, owing to its high cation-exchange capacity, a measure of fertility. It can also suck the boot right off your foot.
Soils can be alluvial, colluvial, loess—and it matters. You will need to familiarize yourself with the pore space and texture of your soil and learn to promote aerobic versus anaerobic decomposition. Just repeat: Friable is desirable.
The language of gardens is the Queen's English. Why say "shears" when you can say "secateurs"? Use a trug for your weeds and a trolley to cart around compost.
The language of flowers, on the other hand, is Latin. It is imperative to swoon over the Umbelliferae, to swan around the Aspidistra, to note the Aesculus parviflora, the Acer campestre, the Acanthus mollis. And that is just the beginning. Far from being a dead language, Latin is the only tongue in which you can suggest to your mate a pairing of Dicksonia squarrosa and Farfugium japonicum, or that the Euphorbia donii should snuggle up to the Dryopteris affinis fern. Latin is the international language of identification, and all other names are just, well, common.
A prodigious memory helps. Or a hefty horticultural app. Anyway, what else is there to do during those frigid winter months but learn Latin? And don't give me temperate zones. Everyone knows that gardening in Southern California is really more like tending houseplants that happen to be outside.
Your bookcases should be groaning under the weight of resource materials: tomes with copious footnotes, incomprehensible abbreviations, and much cross-referencing. Never mind that the only way to know whether anything will actually live in your soil is to plant it and see what happens. Plants are full of surprises; it's one of their most endearing characteristics. The best gardeners push them around mercilessly. You could spend years studying soil chemistry; I will just point out that those are years in which you could be digging holes. Your choice.
Your night table, your pantry, your bar cart, and your bathroom shelves should be laden with seed catalogs. Heritage varieties are de rigueur. The latest catalog from the D. Landreth Seed Company, which recently celebrated its 225th anniversary, will become an heirloom. Knowing what to do with those seeds bears study—learning how to germinate, prick apart, repot, plant, transplant, pinch back, sow, and reap. Tired yet? The geek's kitchen counter is covered with seed trays, the cellar full of tubers, the refrigerator packed with bulbs.
We haven't even touched on rootstocks, whip-and-tongue grafting, hand pollinating, dividing, double digging, and those old standbys nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Surely you won't buy fertilizers off the shelf? You need soil analyses (consult your local cooperative extension) for different parts of your garden, and you'll want to push ingredients for different functions—P to help increase root growth; K for fruit formation. If you're noticing interveinal chlorosis, reach for Mg (magnesium), check pH for acidity, and so on. (See reference books.) A couple of bags of dried blood and bonemeal lying about look, well, sexy, in that earthy, essence-of-musk sort of way.
I warn you: You cannot spend enough time preparing your soil for planting—an entire year of tilling organic matter into the ground is probably not long enough. I did not take this seriously, and as a result I may have to sell my house and start over somewhere else.
You need to know about the birds and the bees. And the worms, compost, and water. You want compost, a nd compost tea for fertilizing. No industrial black plastic bins for you, even in the city. Better to build wooden structures for stuff that you'll fork over, and then over again. For the rest of your life. Better yet to dig a hole in the ground, start making heaps, and train your squash vines up their sides. Into the compost will go almost everything your children refuse to eat. (And if you get rats? So what?)
Worms are your best friends, your biggest helpers. You will develop a fondness for their pleasant little ways when you look over your beds at dawn and see the elegant mounds of poo they have left behind during the night. They never stop working. Unlike children.
The first time your spade cuts through a gorgeous wriggling pink body, you will tell yourself what your mom probably told you: That's how they reproduce! Now you have two worms! Like most things your mom told you, that is what is known in the trade as a white lie. Just have a good cry and move on. You'll grow used to the ruthless killing field that is a garden. Besides, worms are hermaphrodites and have a lot more fun than you do.
Remember the apiaries. No bees, no food. No you. Worse, no flowers. The true geek cultivates his royal jelly. So don't touch those pesticides. A working knowledge of beneficial insects is also important. Do not swat away those yellow jackets. Welcome those aphid midges.
Capture your gray water. Irrigation is the ne plus ultra of geek cred. Hoses and siphons snaking out your bathroom windows, buckets under your trapless sinks—all that water you think has already been used is just beginning to be useful. Pay no attention to the residue of cooking oil, food particles, and chemicals from your cosmetics and toothpastes. Just remember that wastewater is alkaline, so don't throw it on acid-loving plants. Bleach and soaps containing chlorine, boron, and sodium-based compounds are a no-no.
And I almost forgot: the garden itself. Understandably, it's often an afterthought. Even after language acquisition and soil preparation, there is more to be done. Mainly, watching the sun. That takes at least a year. The garden geek will know where sunlight falls on both solstices, where shade, dappled or deep, is cast at all times of the year, including the dead of winter.
Finally, a word about garden design: nice. That about sums it up. Design is irrelevant to many gardeners, who would rather go deep—up to the ankles in alpines or to the armpits in Leguminosae—than wide. Or grow food. Three sister types of plantings (say, corn supporting beans, which are fixing nitrogen, and squash acting as mulch at their feet) are about as designer as it gets. Many geeks gravitate toward horticulture; consider simply pitching a greenhouse and propagating Schizophragma hydrangeoides.
This kind of thinking comes from the part of your brain that remembers all that Latin. And it's not exactly wrong thinking, either. Those neural pathways are the ones that understand you are not merely gardening. You are tending a carbon sink. That meadow of Panicum virgatum (OK, but only this once: switchgrass) is sequestering atmospheric carbon in stems and leaves and belching out beautiful, pure oxygen. And underground, things really get cool—or rather, hot. The roots associate with mycorrhizal fungi and produce gluey stuff called glomalin. Not only does it hold soil together—a property known as tilth—but it's full of carbon.
A different part of the brain is activated by aesthetics; it is the most human part. It bears keeping in mind. Beauty matters. You can be a garden geek and still not be a gardener. Some geeks can gaze into the fractal depths of Cynara cardunculus and see nothing but a Fibonacci sequence. The true gardener appreciates the vagaries of life. No matter what you do right—eat local, sink carbon, prepare for the zombie biker apocalypse by learning how to pickle your veggies—things will go wrong. This is the hardest lesson to learn, but also the most important. Gardens die. And then they are reborn.
Dominique Browning (slowlovelife.com) is the author of Slow Love and writes an online column for the Environmental Defense Fund
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Balcony Hothouse With just a few smart mods, tiny spaces can be high-yield gardens.
A narrow balcony isn't a grower's dream, but it isn't a nightmare either. The key is to use your vertical space, plus a little protective enclosure, to create an adjustable microclimate that'll allow year-round thriving. You won't be able to grow enough to feed yourself, but you'll find that you make (slightly) fewer trips to the grocery store. Potting mix (instead of soil pilfered from the nearest construction site) will keep your plants mostly disease-free, solar heat will help fight off frost, and a clever, inexpensive system of frames and suspended pots will increase your yield. Plus, gifts of fresh tomatoes will be a great way to meet your neighbors after the zombies control the streets.
Warm your microclimate a few precious degrees in the evenings with a wall of water bottles. The containers' high surface-to-volume ratio means they'll absorb heat even on cloudy days and radiate ambient warmth onto your beloved crops when the temperature drops at night. This kind of low-tech passive solar heating was a favorite of the ancient Greeks.
Pick your plants carefully—you're trying to balance yield per plant and plants per square foot with root depth, since deeper roots need deeper earth, which weighs heavily on your balcony. While carrots need 3 feet of soil, bush beans require about half that. A single tomato plant produces up to 16 pounds of fruit; a single beet plant produces… one beet.
Doing a lot with only a little space means getting efficient, especially with moisturizing. Subirrigated planters store water at the base and rely on capillary action—plant roots suck up H2O through potting mix that lets the water move efficiently and allows plenty of room for gas exchange. (Roots absorb oxygen from soil macropores.) The planter's reservoir protects your crops from overwatering.
Hang containers of shallow-rooted plants on a multilevel grid constructed from PVC. Improved air circulation and increased exposure to the sun for each plant should up your yields. Using separate planters also means you can choose a wider variety of vegetables with different germination and growth periods. Best of all, you'll produce more edibles per square foot.
Mushrooms are obligate aerobes—that is, the strands that make up the body of the fungus, called the mycelia, need oxygen and nutrients to grow. After the first fruiting—when the mushroom caps appear—harvest the spores, isolate the mycelia, add agar, and put in a jar with grain. For every cup of mushrooms harvested, you'll get 2 to 3 grams of protein.
The best protection for crops is a translucent box—polyethylene sheeting lets through the photosynthetically active spectrum of sunlight (400 to 700 nm) but diffuses it so plants don't get sunburned. Eventually the plastic breaks down, so you'll have to replace it every few years. But it costs only $3 a foot, give or take. Bonus: Lugging it to your third-floor walk-up is no sweat.
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Urban Plot Room to grill, grow food, and raise some feathered friends.
The postage stamp behind your row house has enough room for several raised beds that, combined with fence-mounted planter boxes and movable containers, should sate the fruit and vegetable appetites of a family of four in summer and fall. A small potato crop piles on some additional calories, and three laying hens will supply you with eggs for most of the year. Plus, chicken poop provides a nitrogen-rich base for your compost tumbler. Your little ecosystem won't exactly save you money—if you figure that organic feed is 72 cents a pound and the birds will each eat 2 pounds of chow a week, the dozen or so eggs you'll get weekly will cost around $4.
Get the most out of your land by dividing it into zones—one for people, one for vegetables, and one for hens. Hang out near the house on the paved patio area where movable planters give you maximum flexibility. Protect your crops from marauding chickens by installing access doors; throw them open in winter to let the birds scratch through the beds and pick at weeds and worms.
Amp up your caloric output with tubers. They're susceptible to blight, though, so buy fresh seed potatoes and sow your starchy friends in fabric containers like the Smart Pot: It's easier to control soil moisture, and the roots stay warm and aerated. Mound soil around the stems as the plants grow to coax up to 10 pounds from a 10-gallon pot. Seed these beds in succession to stagger your harvest.
A compost tumbler converts kitchen scraps and chicken crap into black gold for your veggie crop. Give it a daily spin to keep the microbial party going. The nitrogen-rich manure will get the barrel hot, hot, hot—around 140° F—killing pathogens but not beneficial microorganisms. Let the mixture cure for a few months in a sealed container so microbes complete their life cycles.
The dirt in your city plot is probably kinda crummy, but you can pack a raised bed with top-quality potting mix. Raised beds also make for warmer and better-drained soil, happier roots, easier weed control, and fewer pests—which means less work for you and more veggies for everyone. Build the frames from almost anything but be careful of treated wood, which could leach chemicals.
If city regulations permit, you have just enough room for laying hens (keep three or more for ideal flock dynamics). House your egg factories in a three-room condo with an enclosed, slat-floored nesting/laying level at a height good for gathering eggs and cleaning up; a mesh-enclosed, slat-floored lower-level platform for fowl to eat and drink; and a ground-level sandbox for scratching and dusting.
Don't forget to use your fences: Espaliered dwarf fruit trees grow flat against the wall like vines, conserving space. (Some even have several varieties of fruit, which ripen at different times, grafted onto a single rootstock.) Walls are also great for hanging planter boxes for lettuces and strawberries and supporting trellises for veggies like tomatoes and vining tromboncino zucchini.
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Suburban Spread Super soil and a good flora/fauna mix produce self-sustaining sustenance.
If you plan carefully, a large portion of a small family's diet can come from an average suburban yard—one that's twice as productive and a hundredth as energy-intensive as a typical farm. The key: You're not growing food; you're growing soil—self-sustaining and self-improving, as roots bring up minerals and leave behind organic matter. Close planting practically eliminates weeds; diverse, rotating beds thwart harmful insects and fungi. Growing the amount of carbonaceous composting material required to be genuinely sustainable limits the space for produce, but the diet won't be drab. You'll have mushrooms, apples, and even fish. Just be prepared for a lot of digging.
Plants like soil that has proper texture (the size and composition of mineral particles) and structure (how the particles stick together). Aerobic bacteria consume plant residue and excrete polysaccharides that hold soil together. Fungi break down minerals into forms plants can absorb. Test soil annually to figure out what nutrients it needs for the first few seasons.
You'll need to compost much of what you grow to keep from depleting the soil. Layer nitrogenous materials (food scraps, garden clippings), soil, and carbon-rich refuse from crops you've grown for that purpose. Splash on water. It'll get hot; when it cools, dump it into a second bin to aerate. After three months, sift and put the leftover chunks back into the first bin.
High-quality animal protein isn't sustainable, but it sure is delicious. A few laying hens will gobble up kitchen scraps, bugs from fallow garden beds, pests you hand-pick off crops, and crickets. (Raise your own in a tall container indoors; you'll need a dozen males and a dozen females to start.) Rabbits are also quite tasty and breed like, well, rabbits.
A garden fence will do double duty, keeping less aggressive critters like skunks and people away while supporting espaliered fruit trees that you've trained to climb like vines. (Apples do well.) Meanwhile, put the power of B. F. Skinner to work by smearing a lightly electrified (5,000-volt) deer fence with a mix of peanut butter and veggie oil. One lick and they'll learn.
Maximize yield without depleting soil: 60 percent carbon-and-calorie crops like grains and sunflowers (great for composting), 30 percent high-calorie roots, 10 percent veggies. Scatter flowers to attract and feed pollinators, then plant trees, herbs, and ornamentals to draw pest-eating insects. Rotate crops each season to vary which nutrients are drawn from soil.
Tilapia is perfect for backyard farming—it's an African breed that tolerates a wide range of conditions, produces a harvest every 100 days, and in 85-degree water will transform a pound of dry feed into about a pound of meat (paint the tank black for passive solar heating). Plus, its nitrogen-rich effluent is ideal plant fertilizer. Figure on producing about half a pound of fish per gallon of water in your pool.
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Exurban Farm The biggest yard can add luxuries like honey and beer to your harvest
The exurbs were made for vast green lawns and swimming pools. But in the world of domestic terraforming, those are the first things to go. Replace them with an edible landscape. With a modest 2,400 square feet and a forgiving climate, you can grow most of what you need, plus a few luxuries. Plant your garden right and you'll even have high-value produce like honey and herbs to barter. If you've got a quarter acre—probably more typical for the exurbs—you can start to think about raising a few pigs or goats. Remember, it doesn't matter if you're underwater on your McMansion; you've got enough land to eat like a king.
Chickens convert feed to flesh superefficiently. (Raise eight chicks at a time and give them the ax at two months to keep the freezer stocked.) Dual-purpose breeds like Barred Plymouth Rock also provide eggs. Supplement their diet with snails and sic them on the bugs in your orchard. Rabbits and guinea pigs also make great stew. But if it's beef you crave, you should have bought the ranchette.
With a minimum of space and care, bees will give you honey, candle wax, and crop pollination. Bats will clear your land of mosquitoes, moths, and other winged pests—and deposit nutrient-rich poop. If the idea of pinching off snails and slugs by hand ooks you out, you can terminate them with a dish of old beer. As long as it's deep enough for them to drown in, they will. Drunks…
Potatoes rule when it comes to calories per square foot. But calories alone don't equal survival. For more- concentrated nutritional content, you want sweet potatoes, turnips, and greens like leeks. Intermix deep-rooting plants (carrots) with shallow ones (lettuce); shade tolerators (peas) with sun worshippers (tomatoes). Remember, monocultures are for suckers.
Don't like beans? Tough. Plant 'em anyway. Earth's atmosphere is 78 percent nitrogen, but it's in a gaseous form available almost exclusively to the rhizobium bacteria that live in legume root nodules. The bacteria convert atmospheric N2 into plant-friendly ammonia. Beans and peas grow best when they grow together—let their climbing vines intertwine.
Hops are easy—run them up the back wall and you get 20-foot-high vines that keep the house cool. But barley is an indulgence. You can coax maybe 20 pounds of malt grain from a 15- by 15- foot patch. That's enough for about 10 gallons of beer, or 18 six-packs. Share selectively. Meanwhile, wheat averages 42 bushels per acre, and corn gets 155 bushels. You want bread? Buy it.
Wastewater? There's no such thing. The sinks, showers, and washers of a typical family of four can discharge 300 gallons per day. That's enough to feed 375 square feet of wetland—your own personal watershed. (Rainwater keeps the pond topped up.) Plants and microbes convert waste to food for fish and ducks. Tilapia eat weeds, frogs eat insects, and ducks lay eggs.
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Justin Ong
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Monday, 13th December, 2004
In this installment, we'll take a break from our usual pace of product reviews and have a closer look at the recently reviewed Zen Micro audio player from Creative. By our definition of a closer look, we're actually talking about a complete and comprehensive disassembly of the Zen Micro and hopefully with this, we can all walk away with a better understanding on the anatomy of the impressive portable audio player. Through this detailed and documented article, we'll be able to satisfy the curiosity of not only ourselves, but also the group of consumers who isn't content with just using the Zen Micro as it is. Although we're absolutely confident about the audio performance of the player, we just feel that occasionally there's a need for us to move beyond our usual scope of product reviews. This step-by-step disassembly guide that we've put together is just one of many testaments to our collective passion and appreciation of quality hardware.
Since this guide involves disassembling your Zen Micro, we have to point out that the warranty of your Zen Micro would be considered null and void should the disassembly be carried out by non-certified personnel (yourself included). HardwareZone will not be held responsible in any way should you somehow end up with an inoperable unit either by misinterpretation of our article or in any actions of similar capacity.
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Is the Big Office Showdown Worth It?
While office blowups can be cathartic, research shows that witnessing such a battle sparks a measurable decline in onlookers' working memory and creativity. Sue Shellenbarger and operational psychologist Dr. Michael Woodward discuss on Lunch Break.
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In his State of the Union address this January, President Obama rang a bell that is still sounding 10 years after our wars began in Afghanistan and Iraq. "At a time when too many of our institutions have let us down, they exceed all expectations," he said about our men and women in uniform. "They're not consumed with personal ambition. They don't obsess over their differences. They focus on the mission at hand. They work together. Imagine what we could accomplish if we followed their example."
We can do better than imagine. We can remember.
As World War II drew to a close, many Americans worried about how to assimilate returning veterans. Some feared the economic boom of the war would quickly fall back to the hard times of the Great Depression as millions in uniform arrived home looking for work. But these military veterans—the Greatest Generation, in Tom Brokaw's phrase—had the resilience and leadership skills to become not a weight but an engine driving the economy and the American Century.
Whether today's military men and women—the best-trained and most experienced military force in the history of our nation—can similarly drive our economy largely depends on whether we remember our history.
After World War II, veterans were rewarded with the G.I. bill and favorable housing loans. Perhaps as important, they came to be seen as a boon to any business that wanted to recruit disciplined, mission-oriented and motivated workers. Veterans then even wore military veteran pins on their lapels because it singled them out as worthy of special consideration as potential employees.
Today's veterans, many of whom enlisted after America was attacked on 9/11, are as deserving as their World War II predecessors. And putting them to work may well be the most selfish thing our nation can do right now. Where else might any business find better, more "can-do" men and women?
When a person has been repeatedly willing to run toward battle under orders despite the risk of death, imagine what he or she might do to inspire a company to find the grit to succeed. How do you say "no" to working overtime when your colleague is a former war veteran who is willing to say "yes?"
About veterans whose skills have been honed in hostile environments, Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn notes that, "Whether they're part of a factory floor team, whether they're part of an executive group trying to steer a company in a certain direction, cohesion, coherence, the ability to follow others and work with others toward a common goal is incredibly important in generating those widgets and the clothes and the computers and the smartphones of GDP."
The good news is that corporate America is beginning to wake up to the benefits of bringing a fighting spirit into their companies. Executives are learning that despite misconceptions, the vast majority of veterans—82%-90% of men and 80% of women returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, according to the RAND Corporation—do not have a post-traumatic stress syndrome that could affect their readiness to work.
Prudential, FedEx, Gamestop, JetBlue, J.P. Morgan Chase, Coca-Cola, Sears, AT&T, NBC Universal and its parent company Comcast are among an increasing number of companies that are now seeking to hire veterans.
Gary Taylor, a top executive at power company Entergy (and a retired captain in the Air Force), puts it this way: "The skills that they bring back are a real competitive advantage, whether they're electricians, mechanics, computer scientists, engineers—that skill seems to fit well."
And even when a skill does not fit exactly, why would anyone doubt whether former Apache helicopter pilots or company master sergeants would be trainable? The sooner more American businesses realize the value of this sudden wealth of returning military veterans, the sooner we can stop worrying about our economy.
Our military veterans have exceeded all expectations. What could our businesses, our economy and our nation accomplish if we put their talents and courage to work here at home?
Ms. Curry, an NBC News anchor and correspondent, has traveled six times to Iraq and Afghanistan and is a daughter of a war veteran. On March 28 on NBC's "Today" show, she will help broadcast "Hiring Our Heroes Today," a nationwide hiring fair put on by NBC News and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, hosted at the USS Intrepid museum.
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The iconic bride wears a white dress, but as times and styles change, so do the appropriate wedding hues. We love the idea of a bride opting for a non-white dress, like pinks, blues, or metallics, for a modern twist on a traditional look. We're sharing the various ways you can commit to color on your wedding day with simple wedding dresses.Your wedding dress fabric helps define your gown's look and feel.
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Proof that a desire for a more informal approach to contemporary ceremonies is growing, global fashion search platform recently revealed that 23 per cent of brides now opt for two wedding dresses with 61 per cent of the dress choices being short.Since 1910, beautiful wedding dresses trends have often evolved alongside everyday fashion, with brides in one decade wearing drastically different styles than brides in the next.
You'd be surprised by how versatile a dress can be. Also, keep in mind it doesn't have to be a little black dress for a dinner date. All that matters, in the end, is that you look nice. You may want to wow your date, but not overdressed at the same time.A wedding is one of the most important, and remembered, days of your life life. It can be all-consuming trying to plan every single thing so you know the day will (hopefully) go off without a hitch.
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Aug 29, 2020
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Aug 27, 2020
Fits amazing and so beautiful.
Aug 11, 2020
I was reluctant to order something without trying on - decided to have the dress customized to my size. I was so surprised to get the dress so quickly (not even 2 weeks after I ordered) and especially surprised to see that it was made so well. The dress is long for this style - I will have mine shortened a bit so I don't trip over on my wedding day! Something to be aware of when you order this particular dress. My dress as seen in the picture is an ivory color.
Aug 03, 2020
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Jul 30, 2020
I absolutely love my dress, it's champagne in color and that is gorgeous. Even though I sent my exact measurements, the dress came a bit too big, and the straps are too long, but I will have the dress altered for a better fit. Other than those minor issues it's perfect!
Jul 11, 2020
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Jun 25, 2020
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May 17, 2020
Was nervous to make such an important purchase online. Used the custom size option and dress was perfect! It is full, very full. I got it hemmed and removed train due to weather and having ceremony at a rocky area outdoors. Will definitely purchase from lalamira again. Thank you.
May 08, 2020
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Mar 14, 2020
I'm so happy to get this dress for my wedding dress
Mar 14, 2020
I had never ordered anything from this site before and was worried about the quality and whether or not I would actually receive anything after I paid. The package came via Express Worldwide/DHL from Suzhou China, I ordered June 29 and received it on July 9th so cannot complain at all. The dress is fully lined and beautifully made and fits perfectly. I will say that you absolutely need to measure your chest,waist,etc...Do not assume or think there will be "wiggle room"...I chose to get my exact measurements and go by their sizing chart and that was 100% the right move...the dress fits perfectly, if I had picked the size I normally wear in any other clothing it would have been small, it fits snug but not tight as it should. I wanted a dress that had flowing chiffon and a throw back kind of look for my beach wedding so I picked this and it is perfect and better quality than I honestly had expected. I am very satisfied with the fit,finish and delivery. FYI: DHL will send you delivery notice out of the blue about deliver and ask permission to leave package without someone home to receive it...I had no idea why I was getting this message. Just didnt cross my mind at the time so I am happy that they did not wait for my response to deliver or worse, send back because I did not reply. Just letting others know so no one finds themself with any problem because, like me didnt think about it. Overall, VERY VERY HAPPY THANKS lalamira
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Mine is actually a funny story. I was so excited to get home because I got the email stating my dress was delivered. When I finally made it home and opened it I stared at it and noticed it didn't look like the photo I was a bit upset. So I showered and then went upstairs to try it on only to notice it was inside out. Lol I fell in love with it measurements were perfect compared to other sites I have ordered from. I truly am so happy thank you so much!
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I ordered this dress roughly two weeks ago. I first was the dress at a local bridal shop and they wanted $850. I found it here and decided to take my changes. I just received it today and exactly the same as the one I tried on. I do need to have it taken in because I was in between sizes and I've lost weight. I can't wait to wear it for my wedding!
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Dress is made exactly like photo seen, absolutely beautiful! Only issue is bottom not as puffy as I thought it would be and the mesh doesn't blend well w/ darker skin tones it appears white instead of transparent or close to. However if that doesn't bother you I definitely recommend this dress! Also they did my custom measurements perfect!
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I absolutely love my dress I am very appreciative of the other ladies who shared their photos and reviews of this dress that's what really made me want to purchase it I got it customized and it still came in 2 weeks time I will bring them in this site to any bride who's looking for a wonderful dress and reasonable prices
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I may have gotten lucky, but my entire experience with Lalamira.com was just perfect! The website purchase experience was "seamless." :) I included my own measurements just to be safe. The dress came by DHL in about 2 weeks (super fast)! And when I wore it, nothing at all needed to be tailored! Someone gave me an (amazing!) train to attach to the back of the dress, but without it, the dress was still absolutely breathtaking! See for yourself. Wedding perfection! Budget perfection! God is good!
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"We saw everything out there except hail and locusts"
When Hotspur (Marion, Massachusetts) took her own finish time off St. David's Lighthouse in a brilliant sunset at 8:22PM Friday night, she cinched the Class D Cook's trophy in the Marion to Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race. The little Rhodes 41 sloop took more than a week to cover the 645‐mile course. She was the last boat overall.
For Ron Wisner, Hotspur's Skipper, this was his first ocean race. "For my first time, I have no regrets," Wisner quipped. "But it was one hell of a first time. It wasn't the reaching race as advertised. We had a beat most of the way and that is our worst point of sail on this old design. We even had to tack to cross the finish line." Wisner said he took a conservative approach to the race. They had just a storm jib up for one twenty‐four hour period and a storm trysail and storm jib up for twelve more.
The gale they hit lasted for thirty‐six hours with winds reaching from thirty knots into the mid forties. They flew the two storm sails in the thirtyknot lulls. Hotspur's cook, Rick Higgins, served up fried eggs and sweet rolls in the mornings and dinners included smoked salmon for the last night out. Higgins, known as Ace by his mates, said, "Captain Ron (later nicknamed Captain Ahab) worked hard to get the boat ready. This was my first ocean race. With wind in the mid forties and waves about 30 feet from trough to crest, we saw everything out there except hail and locusts."
In the Marion To Bermuda Cruising Yacht Race, the last boat in each class wins a Cook's Trophy. Taking the other not so coveted awards were Jim Geddes in the Class A Ocean Jasper (Wilmington, Delaware), Ed Mapes in the Class B Voyger (McKinney, Texas), and in Class C Harvey Howalt's Experience Middletown, Rhode Island).
Of the original forty‐eight entries, three did not start to begin with, and fifteen retired in the face of confused seas and big westerly winds early in the race and then eventually shifted to the South.
The non‐starters were Paul Hubbard's Bermuda Oyster (Hamilton, Bermuda), Stafano Pacini's Galileo (Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts), and one of two multihulls Por Dos entered by Mark Monwood (Bedford, Massachusetts).
Yachts that retired from the race were
- Jonathan Brewin's Big Bear (Hamilton, Bermuda)
- Harry Bird's Bluebird (Essex, Connecticut)
- Bremer Speck (Ron Hiemann West Newberry, Massachusetts)
- Maren Erskin's Cayenne (Bearsville, New York)
- David Risch's Corsair (Marion, Massachusetts)
- Mike Ryan's Fiona Rois (Bass Harbor, Maine)
- Jim Feeney's Kathleen (Marion, Massachusetts)
- Alan Benet's La Retreat (Basking Ridge, New Jersey)
- Philip Clorite's Lucky Dog (Waterford, Connecticut)
- Lynley III (James Barns, Mobile, Alabama)
- Bruce Kinsey's Memory (Southport, Maine)
- Tom Bowler's Nightwind (West Simsbury, Connecticut)
- Phantom sailed by Craig Slater (Golden, Colorado)
- Jonathan Baxter's Pond Prowler (St. George's, Bermuda)
- Bill Ferguson's Sea Fever (Milford, Massachusetts)
- Daniel Biemesderfer's Shearwater (Guilford, Connecticut)
- David Kingsbury's Shooting Star (Orange, Connecticut)
- The sole multihull racing, Falcor sailed by Steve Gross (Scotch Plains, New Jersey) also retired.
Tom Farquhar, Chairman of the MBCYRA, presented AWARDS OF MERIT to four crews who suspended racing and diverted in response to an emergency flare they sighted. Craig Slater skipper of Phantom, Philip Clorite skipper of Lucky Dog, David Risch skipper of Corsair, and George Denny skipper of Restive took time from the race searching for its source, a single handed sailor later rescued by a cruise ship.
Skies cleared during the ceremony and once all of the prizes were awarded and photos taken with the perpetual trophies, sailors, guests and the many volunteers who make this race possible enjoyed a gala banquet in the Keep, the parade ground below the Commissioner's House. The party spirit continued with dancing after dinner and the starlight harbour cruise back to the Royal Hamilton Amateur Dinghy Club.


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TBBT is not a happy show. Whether it's funny is an open question, but I can find no way of looking that makes it happy. Accepting that I was essentially watching a slowly unfolding tragedy rooted in a very unsentimental and perfectly materialist worldview, it made much more sense...and became rather brilliant.
Since I kept drifting off into defending - or, rather, explaining my rather idiosyncratic fondness for the show - in the post about "Nerd Blackface," I figured I'd just go on about it in it's own post, since liking or disliking is not really relevant to "nerd blackface" being not ok. I suppose this is broadly a response to this essay, that kept getting linked there. I've probably overthought this, but it's exam season - overwrought theories on the internet are kind of my life right now.
So, I adore TBBT, because it is just so delightfully commie.
While I won't go so far as to accuse Chuck Lorre of being a Communist (although, has anyone seen his new show, Mom? Talk about class warfare) I am going to go ahead and say that TBBT easily supports a fundamentally Marxist reading. Bear with me:
To boil it way down, there are two very basic, underlying tenets to far-left politics. (At least as I'm familiar with them. I don't want to speak for everyone who possibly identifies as a leftist here.) These are foundational assumptions and the debate around their validity IS much of the basis of the right/left split. They are:
a. Humans are social
b. Humans are socialized
These seem pretty self evident, not to mention similar, but they're actually rather contradictory and, on most political spectrums today, somewhat radical.
(a) claims that humans need other humans to be human. We are part and parcel of our society, and this is a good thing. In one way or another, our contact with others is at the root of all our capacity for meaning, self-actualization and freedom.
but, (b) claims that were are almost mechanical products of those same societies. Our ambitions, our desires, our sense of right and wrong, is an inevitable, inescapable product of society. How we live shapes what we think about everything. What we want, what we think we want, what we hate, what we fear - none of it comes from some unique, personal place, but from a particular constellation of lived experience and social conditioning. Consciousness is derived from praxis.
Praxis is a neat and awesome word and i'm sad it seems to be dying out in English as some jargony academic term. It means something like the summary of the experience of day to day life. All of it - the job you have, the technology you use, the relationships you take part in, your class, your gender, everything. That day to day living, the years and years of it, shapes you.
So, is society good or bad? Does it trap us or does it give us meaning? Naturally, it's both. The point is, it's unavoidable. It is the underlying reality of the human condition. It is not something (in the marxist view) to be escaped or fought against, any more than the rising of the sun can be fought against. A perfect, socialist utopia still has a praxis - it still shapes the consciousness of those that live in it, it just does it in that image.
All that out of the way, back to the show.
We have Penny, the cute, airheaded waitress who dreams of being an actress lives across the hall from the pair of smart and reasonably professionally accomplished, but extremely socially awkward physicists.
What is Penny's praxis? She's female, rural, young. Her family background is a little vague, but there is no sense that she comes from a family that is particularly well off. Not poor, perhaps, but definitely not raised somewhere where higher education or professional ambitions are a norm, particularly for a woman.
(Obviously i'm drawing on generic tropes and a very, very broad and stereotypical sort of general knowledge here, not just the dry facts delivered within the show, but the show expects us to come to it with that knowledge. When Penny says "I'm from Omaha" it leads, immediately, to think of her differently than if she had said "I'm from New York." When Sheldon mentions growing up in a house on cinderblocks, that brings certain cultural associations to mind, and it is supposed to.)
She's also pretty, vivacious, confident and outgoing, and obviously extremely good at navigating social norms and situations. She's good at communicating, she's good at presenting herself, she's good at using her particular assets ("So tenure is like being a pretty waitress at the Cheesecake factory?") She's good at performing gender in a traditional and accepted way. She's even good at understanding male gender performance when she needs to - it's her the male characters come to when they need someone to beat up a bully or show them how to do guy-things to impress a macho father-in-law - but she would clearly never make the mistake of acting too masculine when society expects her to act feminine. This isn't because she's stupid or shallow - it's because she's very smart and very intuitive about these particular things. In other words, she's good at fitting in.
So, what does the kind of society Penny is portrayed as being a product of celebrate and value? What does one learn to aspire to, as a pretty girl in rural Nebraska, who also believes in psychics and astrology, who is a vegetarian who loves steak, who thinks a screenplay about a "sensitive girl from Nebraska" is at all interesting to anyone? Well, it's celebrity. Penny's vague and ill-formed desire to "be an actress," along with all the rest of it, is the product of her being extremely socializable, and from a society that worships celebrities and indeed rewards them handsomely. It also screws her over: she's internalized a desire to "be an actress" - and what it gets her is minimum wage and misery.
This is where we hit the really commie stuff (sorry, folks.) I say we all have praxis, right? Well, we don't just have a random, neutral praxis. Society isn't a great, even blob - it's structured. Structured to benefit some small percentage, and to use others to be of benefit to that small percentage. The mechanism that does that is called False Consciousness. False consciousness argues that our internalized desires might not be good for us.
Penny illustrates this very nicely: she chooses to pursue an unrealistic dream of stardom that leads her to poverty over the very realistic possibility of getting a degree and being considerably better off, and possibly happier. Nobody twisted her arm about it, nobody held a gun to her head. It was a choice she freely made, and yet a choice based on things she had absorbed from society - about what the value of a pretty face is, about the glamour and closeness of stardom as it's reflected in an omnispresent media, about the low value of intellectual persuits for women, etc, etc. Ultimately, it's a choice that is making her miserable and yet one she can't climb out of - neither economically nor personally. Both her finances and her sense of self worth are caught in a vice.
So that, to quote the pilot episode, "Is the story of Penny." Now lets move across the hall for the compare and contrast that is the heart of the show:
What kind of praxis does Leonard come from?
Well, he actually comes from a very similar one, which is the rub. In some ways, yes, it's different - he's male, upper-middle class, from a family steeped in academia. Unlike Penny, he internalized academic achievement as valuable. He internalized a sense of his own intellectual capability. These are important, and it's why he'll stay upper-middle class (even if he'll never exactly be a 1%er on an academic salary) while Penny is sliding into a poverty trap. That's the way the system works and perpetuates itself, economically, using a social mechanism.
But, here's the interesting bit: socially, he wasn't actually raised in a bubble, and today he lives across the hall from Penny. He too is in a praxis that values, say, attractiveness, and wealth, and certain form of masculinity he is not good at doing. He can recognize these things, but he doesn't quite fit, not comfortably. Part of it is his lack of confidence, part of it is the academic setting he so thoroughly comes from, that isn't the greatest preparation for the world outside, part of it is just his personality. He is very bad at doing what Penny is very good at doing, and it leaves him miserable and often isolated. The price of not fitting in, of not participating properly in the social codes, is fairly steep. Leonard knows he sticks out like a sore thumb, and he internalizes that. It's why he has the self esteem of a cupcake and starts sweating next to girls.
So far so glamorous, right? Poor little nerds are good and smart, normal people are mean and stupid and bad? Not quite, because then we get to Sheldon.
What kind of praxis does Sheldon come from?
It doesn't matter.
Sheldon kind of doesn't have a praxis. Sheldon actually, properly, breaks the system. He internalizes virtually nothing and he isn't influenced by what's around him. He neither suffers for conforming nor suffers for not conforming. It all goes over his head. He is, de facto, a kid living in a bubble. His sense of self worth, of achievement and self actualization, is almost entirely independent of anyone or anything else.
Most illustratively, he doesn't care about money. The things he wants to buy haven't been invented yet? Those are words to make an advertiser cry. Penny, in comparison, fills up the gaps in her life with buying expensive things that make her feel better about herself via a cycle of credit card debt. That's half of the collapse of the American middle class explained right there.
So how is Sheldon not awesome? What does Sheldon illustrate about the show's approach? The answer is way back at the beginning. Leonard and Penny are suffering through the connections and contradictions between (a) and (b). Between people's need for genuine contact with one another, and the way that contact is mediated and twisted by a capitalist social structure that requires a false, consumption-based sense of individualism.
Sheldon never makes it that far. Sheldon is stuck at (a), and that makes him the saddest character in the show. Navigating praxis sucks, yes. But the price of being free of it is not worth paying. Sheldon has freedom from shame, freedom from longing and the ability to say anything that crosses his mind with no consenquence. But he lacks the ability to eat pizza on any day of the week, to drive, to live on his own, the capacity to laugh with others and, oh, sex. That's probably not a choice anyone could make. It's certainly not one the show presents as desirable, constantly undercutting any coolness Sheldon might accrue from his unconventionality with really quite harsh infantilization and mockery.
Sheldon and Penny are sympathetic characters, but we're not meant to see ourselves in them - at least, not without a great deal of discomfort. That's the catch. TBBT presents praxis as inescapable, at least for a complete, adult human being, even while it's oppressive. If we accept that no individual has the ability to independently struggle free of the circumstances of their life (the rightwing approach) we're left only with the option of collectively changing those circumstances.
The only hope for Penny to be happy isn't to magically become a star, because that's both impossible and not what she really wants. It's to stop thinking of herself as valuable only for her looks or capable of finding happiness only in wealth. Leonard, likewise, can't become a macho, athletic guy all of a sudden - he just needs to stop placing all his self-worth in being validated by pretty women. Their only chance is to live in an altered paradigm - for example, on the smallest level, with a partner who appreciates them for who they actually are.
This is an obvious platitude, but it's the show's stubborn refusal to deliver it that makes it interesting. On the broad, societal level, these people's only hope is to change the notions that stardom or athleticism (or whatever else they're dreaming of) are either worthwhile or achievable. Ie, to change the praxis. Which is another way of saying revolution. Of course, TBBT is a sitcom, and the audience comes to it with the knowledge that, no matter what else happens, a revolutionary cadre is not going to set up a barricade on the street below. Which is what makes it a tragedy.


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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Blondies and breakdowns
The kids started fighting with each other right from the get-go. They fussed about school work. They fussed about chores. They fussed about the height of their spoons, for crying out loud! I had to, for the thousandth time, point out the toys and junk and dirty socks that needed to be picked up. Pajamas were strewn over the floor long past the getting-dressed time. Someone had knocked all the coats off the hooks while looking for a particular one and then left them all in a heap. And then when I finally got to the point where I could sit on the sofa with the big kids to do our reading, the littles interrupted me repeatedly. Sweetsie begged to do her school work and then fussed when Nickel got too close, which then, amazingly enough inspired Nickel to get even closer. (DUH, Children, DUH!) Interruptions are normal, but it felt much worse today because I was trying to explain element #39—yttrium—which was a frustrating proposition considering I can't even pronounce the element, let alone explain it.
So I burst into tears. (Come to think of it, this was maybe before we got to Yttrium. But in any case....) I sat on the sofa and sobbed. I not only cried, I cried to the kids. I told them that I'm tired—tired of telling them to do things that they already know they need to do, tired of thinking up consequences when they don't listen, tired of them picking on each other, tired of them trying to get by with doing the minimum, tired of them purposefully turning a blind eye to the messes. I informed them, between heaving sobs, that I don't like spending my days directing, bossing, and meting out consequences. They could do better and we all knew it. I wrapped up my saga with something lame and heartfelt like, "I'M SO TIRED AND I JUST WANT US TO ALL GET ALONG!" Sniff. Hiccup.
The kids were speechless. Sweetsie stared at me, half standing and half sitting, not sure where to go or what to do. Yo-Yo didn't move a muscle. Miss Beccaboo leaned on me extra hard and then got up to fold a blanket that was laying on the floor. I honked my nose, and then opened up the Bible and read to them about the Ammonites.
The end.
Except not really. While I felt better after my emotional hissy fit, I was still tired. The kids did their work, and we plodded slowly forward through millimeters and Islam, envelope addressing and piano. The littles played and fought and screamed their way around the property, interrupting us every fifteen minutes to bring us a newly laid egg. And then my sister-in-law called to see if I'd meet her at the park. She'd watch the kids, she said, if I wanted to go for a walk. I did. And that helped. A lot.
We all came back to my house and I took my turn watching my niece and two other kids (a mutual friend had joined us) while their mothers went for a walk together, fed everyone lunch, visited with the mamas when they returned, made blondies, and all together felt much more in control of my life, productive, and hopeful. When everyone left, I put my kids in their rooms for rest time and then ate an embarrassing quantity of the still warm, ooey-gooey blondies.
I'm still on tender hooks, but I'm feeling better now. Fresh air, human interaction, blondies, coffee, and rest time make for a pretty powerful picker-me-upper.
And thank goodness for that.
I discovered this recipe several weeks ago and have made them a half-dozen times since then. At least.
They couldn't be easier, really. I mixed up this latest batch while cleaning up after feeding lunch to seven children and two adults (not counting myself), holding a semi-intelligible conversation (though that may be up for debate), washing two and a half dozen eggs and selling one dozen (though that may have taken place while the blondies were in the oven), feeding the Baby Nickel more and more and more food (I don't think it's humanly possible for a child of his size to consume as much food as he did), cutting the heels off the loaves of bread so Sweetsie could gnaw on them (apparently, she was starving), washing dishes, keeping a watch out the windows at the children streaking (not literally) around the property, and double-checking the recipe on line. One would think I would have a breakdown after all that, but I didn't. All that hubbub only served to make me feel good.
(This does not mean that my children need to act up even more in order for me to maintain my equilibrium. I just want to be clear about that, on the off-chance that you were thinking such utter nonsense. Not that you would ever say such an insensitive thing, of course, even if you did think it. However, if you did say that, I can promise you our relationship would suffer. Especially on days like today when I'm teetering on the brink. On the brink of what, I'm not sure. My eyes are squinched shut 'cause I don't want to know.)
But about the life-saving blondies. They can be whipped up faster than the mood shifts of a PMSy mother of four (though I'm not PMSy, currently). That's saying a lot, dearies. All you do is this: melt 7 tablespoons of butter in a bowl (or pan), stir in a cup of sugar, an egg, a teaspoon of vanilla, a pinch of salt, and a cup of flour and YOU ARE DONE. (Of course, you can add all sorts of goodies to the batter, and I consider chocolate chips to be nonnegotiable, but you could leave those out if you're not feeling up to climbing up on a stool to get to the chocolate that is stashed in the uppermost cabinet above the microwave.) Spread the stiff mixture in a pan, pop it in the oven, and twenty minutes later, grab a hot pad and pull your saving grace from the oven.
Feed the blondies to your children, all except the poor little one who forfeited any potential sweets because he called you a bad name earlier today. You, of course, did not reciprocate, so you eat his share. And then some. (When no one is looking.)
Adapted from Deb over at Smitten Kitchen
Deb's recipe calls for a whole stick of butter, but I found the resulting bars to be too greasy. Cutting back to 7 tablespoons seemed to do the trick.
Some of the add-ins I've used include: chopped pecans, chocolate chips, mini-caramel balls, and coconut. See Deb's post and the subsequent comments for other add-in possibilities—she includes a long list of ideas.
7 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup brown sugar
1 egg
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup flour
½ - 1 cup add-ins (chocolate, nuts, dried fruit, coconut, candy, etc), optional
Stir the ingredients together in the order they are listed. Spread the dough into a greased, 8 x 8-inch pan and bake at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
They are quite gooey while warm, but set up considerably after cooling. They freeze well.
Yield: not enough. Make a double batch.
About one year ago: Meatballs, with lemon zest, oregano, and Parmesan.
11 comments:
Oh, honey. The joys of mothering and homeschooling and being a woman. Sounds perfectly normal to me:-). Those blondies look amaaazzzing. What ARE you trying to do to me??ReplyDelete
Oh, and I'm typing this comment while shoving copious amounts of your delicious sour dough bread into my mouth.
Oh my, how well I know that feeling and I only have 2 children and I'm not homeschooling (yet). Next time I feel like that I'll make some blondies. Now, off to feed the fussin' babe!ReplyDelete
I've been on brink in tears so many times I can't count them. Most of the kids are big now, I'm not homeschooling anymore and we're all still living! Amazing...but true.ReplyDelete
May your blondies and your good food keep you goin' during those trying times!
And just think..... I made it through WITHOUT your good cooking skills!
Motherhood is the HARDEST job in the world. (And anybody who says it's not, hasn't done it.) I think you handled the situation (your breakdown) in the perfect way. Doesn't hurt the kiddlies one little bit to see human emotions from their mom . . . plus it may well have given them something to think about. Something they (hopefully) will remember for a while.ReplyDelete
Now I'm going to go make some blondies. (Can they still be blondies if you put the chocolate chips in??)
- dr perfectionMarch 10, 2010 at 4:02 PM
a cat is so much more manageableReplyDelete
Wow, what a day. I'm often surprised at how compassionate my own kids are (as much as they are able to express at their young ages) when I lose it like that or when I'm really sick.ReplyDelete
However, I would not have shared those blondies with anyone,hehehe.
I've been looking for something to make to take to Henry's playgroup tomorrow and I think I've found a winner! Thanks and take good care of yourself.
Too bad you're not my neighbor... I would of let you hide in my bathroom until a muscle relaxer kicked in...ReplyDelete
Some days just stink!
- AnonymousMarch 11, 2010 at 7:27 AM
I've often wished my now grown kids could spend a day with their little selves. Wouldn't that be a day?ReplyDelete
But the best part is the Blondies and the yield.. not enough. HAHAHA
- AnonymousMarch 11, 2010 at 6:42 PM
I love your blog. You have a fantastic voice. I'm writing this anonymously, because I don't think I should really say it - especially after the day that you had. But it's "tenter hooks". This is from Urban Dictionary - "Firstly, it is tenter hooks, not tender hooks. It means waiting with anxiety. Tenter is a rack for drying cloth and a tenter hook is a nail with an upward curve on which the cloth is hung."ReplyDelete
You can delete this comment if you want ;)
Mama Pea, Yes, blondies are still blondies even when they include chocolate chips---it is the color of the BATTER that matters.ReplyDelete
Anonymous, Just call me Shakespeare!
It was my turn to bring "snack" to childbirth class this week so I made these blondies...and I almost horded them for myself and took something else instead. You've proved yourself the Authority On All Things Sweet once again, Jennifer Jo. :)ReplyDelete