i notice that ~~~

~~~ Amy Goodman on Democracy Now when she talks about President Bush in Crawford, Texas / well she never calls his place his Ranch / she calls it his estate or his property / sorta changes his image, non e vero ?

all hat and no cattle

iron deficiency anemia

you feel real tired / extremely tired / and dizzy / when you bend over or stoop down and get up again you are dizzy

hang on to the tomato cage for support

sooner or later you faint

a syncope not a transient ischemic attack

one is you faint and the other (the TIA) is a mini stroke

one day i felt ~~~~so tired so done in so ready for the end that was surely near i got out my living will (downloaded during the schiavo media event) and called my lawyer

also the doctor

i had tests / blood / ekg / echocardiogram / the eagerly awaited colonoscopy and more scopys after that

so / I am just anemic / your iron is so slow its a wonder you can get out of bed in the morning sez the doc

it's the delicious italian espresso with hot milk that gets me out of bed in the morning / smile

exploding mushrooms

mushrooms of all kinds and colours and shapes and mystical business
are the secret ingredient on the Iron Chef tonight

meanwhile

in the morning
along the creek
mushrooms
explode / like
little dirt volcanoes
erupt
and there you have mushrooms !

luck ~~~

~~~is the first thing

do you feel lucky
or are you
lucky

do you feel lucky because you are lucky

or are you luxky dukky

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today's lesson in essence

"One way to be safe on a dangerous mountain is never let someone less competent than you make decisions for you."

from Moments of Doubt by David Roberts

Contrarian

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still doing what i aint gonna do no more

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todays lesson

No
One
Is
Watching
and
No One Is Keeping Score

i hover ~~~

~~~ on the brink

of impossible tomorrows

well i did it

almost

one year blogging

entry every day

sorta kinda

SYS*



*see you soon*

why not

When you cant stop
being
who
you
are

be more of you

http://caterinacacciatore.blogspot.com/

sheez back

side o' fries

sh / dont tell Caterina !

Caterina can not be depended upon these days / she is indulging in a Full Tilt Lolly Gag

she has not made any chicken soup in weeks !

soooo

take a can of Campbell's Double Noodle / add 2/3 can of chicken broth that comes in a box (pacific) and 1/3 can milk

as that warms up peel a few cloves of garlic and toss them in

add a bouquet of summer savory and pineapple sage

real salt and pepper / a sprinkle of cayenne

at serving time a spritz of cream

hey they aint bad !

drama in the garden

a big plant saucer sits on
an upside down big pot

water for the birds
two flat rocks centered
in the water
for stability


oh look there are ants on the rock ! how did they get on the rock surrounded by water / they must have fallen out of the elm tree whose branches hang down curtaining the birds' bathwater

set a couple of thin sticks and twigs from the rock to the edge of the pot

wow the ants are quick / immediately they are on the sticks and heading home

a flat slat provides a ladder down to the grass

and now ~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~that we are completely FULL of OurSelves

we let loose all the butterflies from the Butterfly Rhythm Band

see them soar

Yay summersolsticefullmooninsagittarius

hooray

plunging headlong into time

bogspot

bogged down

but not uprooted

the doldrums dont last forever

nonfunctioning links

i see the links on the tumbleweed and agretti posts are not working

hmmm

i know they are correctly written bc blogspot points out the errors if they are not

hmmm

maybe bc i just installed TIGER / the printer software had to be reinstalled after TIGER

hmmm

and now for a word about tumbleweeds

tumbleweed

from this site :


Tumbleweed was given the name Salsola australis in 1810 by Robert Brown from the British Museum. He discovered it in Australia. Even though he was the first to classify the plant, he didn't get credit for his work for 170 years. Another scientific name is Salsola kali, but it's also popularly called saltwort, Russian cactus, wind witch, buckbush, soft rolypoly and prickly rolypoly.

There are actually several species of plant that are called "tumbleweed". They all live on flat, open areas, so that the wind can easily blow them around. They all use the strategy of scattering their seeds around as they roll.

Salsola belongs to the spinach family. It is common in Asia, North America, Australia and Africa, and it grows into a ball. Another "tumbleweed", the Rose of Jericho, Anastatica hierochuntica, lives in the deserts of the Middle East and North Africa. It's a delicate wild mustard that looks like a normal plant while it's alive. But when it dries out, it curls up into a ball. The wind rolls it across the desert until it get wet. Then the branches straighten up again, and the seeds drop out. The tumbleweed is not such a pest anymore, since the introduction of phenoxy herbicides in World War II. But it still costs millions of dollars to clean it out of canals and from the side of the road. And motorists still end up in hospital, after trying to outrace a tumbleweed on a windy day.

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follow up to a comment re "agretti"

here is a comment posted on the May 18 entry : about agretti :

it is an ocean grown vegetable, also known as salicornia or seaphire or samphire.

here's a link:

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9606/18/t_t/saltwater.farms/

kelly

thanks, kelly, for an interesting link

i had googled it up a while ago and this is what i found :

Agretti $3.50
Salsola soda Units or #seeds/pkt.: 50
MO SYAG

a 70 days Agretti/Salicornia, a rare European delicacy, is also prized in Japanese sushi for its unusual, salty flavor. Plants have a beautiful candelabra shape and crisp, crunchy thin leaves. Expensive and highly prized by top chefs, it’s difficult to find. Can be grown in regular soil or in salt marshes.

from this site :

underwoodgardens

we are getting seeds to plant in our wetlands here in Moab / one of the few wetlands in the state of Utah

howsomever, the so-called agretti that was a favorite vegetable in Rome did not seem like a rare delicacy / it was pretty common at the outdoor markets / we ate a lot of it / was not shaped like a candelabra and was not salty

howsomever, the baby tumble weed we picked and ate recently this spring was very very very much like the agretti of Rome

oh i do so love a mystery

next blog wandering

i pass through several spanish speaking countries

i discover Dietary Fiber links uses the same blogger template as do i