Kara & Michael’s Blog

I’ve spoken a few times about how I fell victim to a phishing scam as a direct result of my utter and complete stupidity and lack of forethought. I was not so much threatened by the internet as by my own sleep-deprived decision making skills. I was angry and I was also pretty embarrassed because… [...]

It’s getting to be Fall, and our plants are drooping with fruit. Well, they’re not really drooping, and most of them aren’t really fruiting too much.
Our Brandywine tomato plant, despite its lack of sun, is managing to ripen several fruits. The flavor of the tomato is incredible… umami to the extreme.
Our cayenne is producing like [...]

Michael has demanded I post this picture of Inari in the blog. Picture this thing nudging you awake in the morning and try not to be a little terrified.
We’ve been getting a lot of bugs in the house lately – big old flies, little bitty wasps… Inari has been taking care of most of them. [...]

I went out with a friend from my childhood this weekend. We manage to go out probably a couple times a year now, since I live an hour or so away and with work and family and relationships, it seems harder to find time. But after a lunch at micro-brewery type place, we ended up [...]

If you’ve never come with me to a grocery store or to pick up produce, you will have no idea how positively anal I am about fruits and veggies. I had never really eaten many fruits or vegetables when I began working at my first job at an orchard. I learned to spy what decay [...]

I saw a counselor once who bemoaned the state of education and psychological health because it encouraged people to attach their egos to the things they undertook. She was just beginning piano lessons and she offered me this example.
If her teacher was concerned about her hurt feelings, they might tell her she did well on [...]

I was reading an online chat yesterday, and someone said they wanted to lose a not-insignificant amount of weight and that they worked out half an hour for three days every week.
Well, plenty of people told him/her they needed to up the time and frequency of work-outs but no one told him/her how to do [...]

About a month after Michael and I got married, I told him I wanted to buy a cat as a wedding present for him. We went to the pound intending to get a full-grown cat but after bureaucracy bit us in the bum, we came home with a kitten.
We named her Inari. She is one [...]

You know how so many people love to wax poetic about how amazing the human body is? These people have never had to have a boil lanced.
But let’s start at the beginning of yuck. Cysts tend to run in my family. No big deal. Most cysts are harmless and don’t really hurt. But let’s say, [...]

Corn, 6 ears
Leek, one
Garlic, one bulb
Zucchini, two
Hungarian banana peppers, two
Green bell pepper, one
Peaches, four
Basil, one bag
Spring Mix, one bag
New Red Potatoes, one bag
Cucumber, one
Green beans, one bag
Wax beans, one bag

I think that’s everything. Now we have to get off our lazy bums and cook this week.