Yes, they made it off the island. The little boat made two more trips and the last ones on the island were the ones who had the tallest boots... they had thigh boots. They took one for the team because they had thigh boots.When preparing your clams for dinner, it is best to let them…
...also known as "How to dig a clam like a gentleman (or lady)." Alan had discovered that instead of getting yourself covered in mud, a little PCB pipe, and a double sided shovel kept one nice and mud-free. So we were the clean ones on the island.Alan drove his three person boat back and forth…
Slowly but surely, I'm making friends on the west coast. It's thrilling. This means that slowly but surely I will no longer be a hermit.I was invited to go clamming at Lawson's Landing near Tamales Bay last week, and seeing as my life's possessions are strewn between two coasts, this meant a trip to the…
Two days ago, I called my grandmother to ask her about her meatloaf. She has this way of making it that I've never been able to duplicate.But she didn't answer. She usually answers, or if she can't get to the phone fast enough, she always calls back.But she didn't call back this time. Maybe she…
I made a friend! It's a big deal because since I moved to CA for a bit, I don't have many in this neck of the woods.YOU are my friend. No, don't look behind you, I'm talking to YOU.I have a very active cyber life. It's how I cope.But the good news is that a…
I like soft foods. It will serve me well if I have no teeth one day. I like to make my own soft foods whenever possible, the skills will be useful if I'm living off the grid somewhere and I'm toothless.Or if I'm just living off the grid.Or just living toothless.I made homemade cheese the…
I like all things pickled. Pickled peppers, pickled ramps, pickled... things.Sorry. I'm not feeling very eloquent today. I just read a lot of legal jargon and it fried my brain and my eyes are blurry. I can barely see this screen. I'm waiting for things to return to normal... which isn't necessarily eloquent either, but…
Grandma P. and I had a recent exchange via Gmail, as we are prone to do. We like to talk about projects. And radio programs. She tells me what Arthur Schwartz and Joan Hamburg are up to in New York and I tell her what the latest title of my book is. She has much…
I was going to write earlier, but I got distracted by a strawberry rhubarb pie.Now that it's cooling, I thought I'd tell you about a class I tought this past weekend on pioneer skills... this particular segment was on pickling.Some dedicated picklers and I convened at a very cool blue Victorian house in Oakland and…