and sparrows twittered and darted around.I sat on the doorstep and rubbed the sleep from my eyes; I felt so at home in the warm sunshine.Then my father stepped out of the house; since the break of day he had been rumbling about in the mill, and, his nightcap skew-...
"I am not! Now, come here and lace me tighter because we are late already. I heard the carriage come round to the front of the house." Mammy’s tone became wheedling. "Now, Miss Scarlett, you be good an’ come eat jes’a lil. Miss Carreen an’ Miss Suellen done eat all de...
3/15:ÂHeartbeet Kitchen “I’ve been readingAutumn’s blog for quite a few years, first stumbling upon this deliciousÂRhubarb Shrubrecipe she created. I’ve always admired her unique combinations, but most of all, her ability to make these fantastic small...
Indian plum. (PDF) A Northwest native flowering shrub. One of the first plants to leaf out and bloom each spring. Also called osoberry for its edible (but not tasty) berries, or skunk bush for the smell of the male flowers (you have to put your nose right up to them to smell them...
And now the house is quiet, and it no longer smells of poop. The remaining dogs in our pack are calm. Getting up in the morning is stress-free and leisurely. Where, for a few days, there was a hole in the front yard, now there’s a shrub. ...
building conveniently catty-corner to the Somerville courthouse. On the other side of the metal detector is a wall of two-way mirrored plate glass backlit by video surveillance. Beyond that is the nine-by-five-foot cell where Charles Cullen had spent the past two and a half years of his ...