spreading the love for '09...

Funky Kingston - Toots and the Maytals

The best gift ever.

And now I share it with you.
Thank you Adam, I'm crying on Christmas eve.
David Attenborough as Santa Claus:

the lyre bird

sheets of ice.

Then there was snow. This was a very mysterious phenomenon to arrive home to yesterday. It mostly looks like a potential lawsuit now that I have tenants. The runaways we call them. Matt, the boy half, is a volunteer firefighter across the street so maybe he will save the day before anyone is decapitated. The blacksmith says that it will sound like the subway is going by when the temperature changes since the sheets will likely crash in tandem.

Ice Storm

Talking about the weather is not small talk when you live in the country. The weather defines physical and mental economies much more directly in a rural landscape. Basically, the weather determines what is in the field which then defines the kind of activity taking place on the roads and at home in the kitchen.
Over the past year my personal relationships with friends and family may have been tested by distance, but I have definitely developed a more intimate relationship with the weather since moving to the country. It is easy to see how ice storms and swingers mingle.

"CITRUS SHOCKER"

My little sister is the most dedicated, wise, insightful, generous and intelligent woman I know. Despite her movie star good looks (no resemblance), she is also the LEAST likely subject for the gossip pages of the New York Post:



December 7, 2008 --

IF you love orange juice, stop reading now! In her upcoming book, "Squeezed," Alissa Hamilton bares some of the less-appetizing secrets behind the breakfast favorite, including revelations that "most orange juice comes from Brazil, not Florida," and that even " 'not from concentrate' juice is heated, stripped of flavor, stored for up to a year and then reflavored before it's packaged and sold." The citrus shocker from Yale University Press hits stores in May.

SQUEEZED - Yale University Press