tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76362975491931498942024-03-17T20:02:37.621-07:00Fessenden Farmsteadurban farming in the big cityStaceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-25120140468535867852017-01-02T15:21:00.000-08:002017-01-02T15:21:05.468-08:00Hello Everyone!<br />
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It's been awhile. I am going to participate in this challenge this year so I am hoping to come back to the blog. 2017 will be a time of lots of changes for me - so stay tuned!<br />
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http://foodinjars.com/2017/01/food-jars-mastery-challenge/Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-53224452902524293492015-02-22T09:31:00.002-08:002015-02-22T09:31:24.977-08:00Foodie Penpal #2<div style="text-align: center;">
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Last week, I received my second <a href="http://www.theleangreenbean.com/foodie-penpals/" target="_blank">Foodie Penpal </a>package. This time my pal was much closer to home. Jess from Ellicott City sent me a very fun box of goodies.<br />
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The bag of Bamba snacks are crazy - they look and feel in the mouth like cheese doodles but taste like peanut butter. There is a bottle of Simply Enjoy Balsamic Fig vinaigrette that I think will be delicious with all kinds of food including salad. Emma has already tried the Pomegranate flavor chocolate bits - soft fruit center in a yummy chocolate coating. I couldn't keep Sean away from the Falafel chips. The Turkish coffee is flavored with Cardamon. Lastly, there is a lovely cup of instant Pistachio Citrus Quinoa Salad that will be perfect for lunch one day.<br />
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I let Emma opened the package when it arrived and she was more excited than me. She kept exclaiming how much she loved this idea. I would recommend all my friends to give it a try - you have to indicate every month that you want to participate so you can try it for one month and never again if you don't like it. So far, it's been a blast.Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-82528184098977063312015-01-25T11:10:00.001-08:002015-01-25T11:10:27.433-08:00Fun with FoodHappy New Year!<br />
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Lots of things going on with me for 2015. I have many goals about my eating and exercising habits and hope to start blogging again.<br />
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Last month, I read a little blurb about a Foodie Penpal group, run by <a href="http://www.theleangreenbean.com/foodie-penpals/" target="_blank">The Lean Green Bean.</a> I just had to join up. The idea is to spend $15 on a box goodies to send to your penpal. For January, I was matched with Jen in California and she blogs at <a href="http://thehappyhealthybalance.com/" target="_blank">The Happy Healthy Balance.</a><br />
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It was fun to browse the aisles of my favorite store <a href="https://www.rodmans.com/" target="_blank">Rodman's </a> to see what I could come up with. There was a person giving away samples of this delicious coffee sauce (tried on ice cream) so I just had to buy that. I also sent a fancy chocolate bar, wasabi edamame and something else I can't remember.<br />
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Here is what I received in my package<br />
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1. Seapoint Farms Dry Roasted Edamame - the same thing I sent Jen! Very funny<br />
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2. Justin's Vanilla Almond Butter - a sample package. I am a late comer to almond butter and it's delicious.<br />
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3. Nature's Bakery Fig Bar - a fancy Fig Newton. <br />
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4. Lassens Cranberry Jubilee Trail Mix - a good snack to bring to work<br />
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5. An assortment of tea: Tazo Passion, Yogi Ginger, Trader Joe's Ruby Red Chai and Crimson Blossom and Pomegranate White and Ginger Pear.<br />
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6. Redmond's Garlic Salt<br />
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All fun food. I think I am going to enjoy having Foodie Penpals each month<br />
<br />Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-45178497482847275162014-09-21T16:20:00.001-07:002014-09-21T18:06:39.492-07:00Fun at Rock Creek CemeteryThere is an organization in Washington, D.C. called <a href="http://www.culturaltourismdc.org/" target="_blank">Cultural Tourism</a>. Every spring and fall, the group offers free walking tours all around the city. On Saturday, Sean and I joined a tour called Art and History are Alive at the Cemetery. Here is the description of the tour:<br />
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<i>At 300 years old, <a href="http://www.rockcreekparish.org/cemetery"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">St. Paul’s Rock Creek Parish and Rock
Creek Cemetery </span></a>are the only colonial church and churchyard
within the District of Columbia. As you stroll through 86 immaculate acres,
visit this home of famous and infamous political, cultural, and business movers
and shakers. View some of the nation’s finest sacred art, including
Saint-Gaudens’ world-famous sculpture in the Adams Memorial and others listed
in the Smithsonian Catalog of American Public Art. Enjoy the art, hear the
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The tour guide was the chairman of the cemetery committee
and was extremely knowledgeable. I had always wanted to tour this place
and was happy to be able to walk around the beautiful grounds for 2 hours.
Here are a variety of photos. There is a tombstone with the last
name of the beanies as well as some other friends (Bobby and Kathryn R).
I also had to take an Emma picture. After the walk, Sean and I
headed to The <a href="http://www.thepigdc.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Pig i</span></a>n Logan Circle for
brunch. Pulled pork eggs benedict for me, sausage, bacon and eggs for Sean.</div>
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The monument to the man who donated the land for the cemetery.<br />
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Christian Heurich, brewer. His <a href="http://www.heurichhouse.org/" target="_blank">house </a>is a museum and very fun to tour.</div>
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Memorial to Henry Adams' wife Clover. The sculpture is by Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The surrounding plot is designed by Stanford White.<br />
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Gore is not buried here yet even though he died in 2012. His will is tied up in litigation.</div>
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Edgar Allan Poe's sister, Rosalie</div>
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Garden Party, September 2014, Friendship Gardens</div>
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A few years ago one of the gardeners, Greg, proposed having an end of summer party at the community garden. It has become a nice tradition and the food is fabulous. Here are pictures from the party on Sunday. Thank goodness it was postponed. Saturday's weather was hot and sticky while Sunday turned out to be lovely. We all gathered under the old mulberry tree. Peter brought two growlers of his home brewed beer. He grew hops in his garden this year and watching the plants grow so high in the sky was lots of fun. For the record, I contributed potato salad. I know many people do not like potlucks but I love them. All the different food to try. Delicious. Kate and Drew are the resident bee keepers and they brought honey to share. I was chatting with Richard who told me how gregarious I am - I have always thought as myself as an introvert but when I am with a group of people I know, it's easy to talk. Being a reference librarian makes for good practice in getting people to talk about themselves. Everyone had fun and the evening ended with a beautiful sunset.</div>
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It's been a while since I have blogged. I've had friends tell me recently how much they liked reading my bog so I am going to try and get it going again.<br />
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Today is my community garden's potluck dinner. We all gather under the old mulberry tree and bring food made from the garden vegetables. The past couple of years, one gardener has been growing hops so there should be home brewed beer tonight.<br />
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I am making potato salad with mustard vinaigrette. I planted fingerling potatoes this year as in years past and the plants did very well. Knock on wood, the potatoes have never had a problem with beetles.<br />
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This is going to be a very simple salad. Potatoes, chives and vinaigrette. The chives are from the front yard. The herbal vinegar is something I made early this summer. My garden friend Edouard gave me some purple basil plants. They taste very strong and would not make a good pesto so I tried steeping the basil in red wine vinegar, along with other herbs from the garden - thyme, marjoram, oregano, chives. It's a pretty red color.<br />
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The tomatoes are still producing. I went out to West Virginia one day and helped on farmer Allan's land. In return, he gave me two 5 gallon buckets of tomatoes. Here is what I did with them<br />
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The canning shelf! 11 quarts of tomato sauce, bread and butter pickles, dilly beans, pickle relish, strawberry jam, strawberry syrup, honey from my mom's bees. The one disappointment this year is there are no figs therefore no fig jam. All the fig trees in the city were killed off by the harsh winter. Luckily the large fig tree at the community garden is re-sprouting from the ground. In the long run, this is a good thing because it had grown too large for anyone to pick the figs from the top of the tree.<br />
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Here are just a few tomatoes picked from my garden this week, I am going to dehydrate most of them to make tomato powder.<br />
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This is a wonderful book. The orchestra players are getting ready for a Friday evening performance and the story takes the reader through the dressing routine. The illustrations are just fabulous.<br />
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When I read the news that Simont had died, I ran upstairs to the bookcase in my room, the one where I moved all the picture books because I just can not get rid of them, and started to find other books illustrated by him.<br />
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I ordered through the library the <i>Happy Day, by </i>Ruth Krauss. She also wrote <i>The Carrot Seed</i> among many other stories but Simont illustrated Happy Day. He was a runner-up for the Caldecott in 1950 for this book. I didn't know this book and did not know until the last page what was going to happen!<br />
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At the Archives, there is an exhibit called <a href="http://www.archives.gov/nae/visit/gallery.html" target="_blank">DOCUAMERICA</a>- a series of photographs taken by photographers for the EPA in the 1970's.<br />
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After that we strolled through the <a href="http://www.nga.gov/feature/sculpturegarden/general/index.shtm" target="_blank">National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden</a> and sat by the fountain. My favorite piece is the Typewriter Eraser by Claes Oldenburg.<br />
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Add to the canning shelf in basement. Running out of room!</div>
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While the jars were processing, I decided to use up the last of the fresh peaches and make peach-blackberry cobbler. Curtesy of King Arthur Baking Book. Most cobblers are cooked fruit with a biscuit topping but this had a pie topping. Delicious.</div>
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Ready to go in the oven</div>
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Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-58452649380535328842013-08-16T13:37:00.000-07:002013-08-16T13:37:35.947-07:00The tree comes downToday was the day! The Silver Maple was taken down. The guys were awesome. The head of the group was also very cute! (He's in the white hardhat)<br />
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Here are the pictures of it being cut down, logs transported over the fence and stump ground.<br />
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<br />Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-9898148691127368132013-08-10T13:49:00.000-07:002013-08-10T13:49:37.033-07:00Today's canningThe beanies have been away all week to Los Angeles and get home tonight. Sean is at the beach with his family. That meant I had the whole day today to myself!<br />
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I picked up a bucket of not-so-perfect tomatoes from Farmer Allan on Tuesday. Tuesday night Sean and I cut them up, boiled them until soft and then put them through the food mill. Friday I took the tomato sauce and boiled it down until it was nice and thick. Today the tomatoes were canned in a water boiling bath.<br />
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The last of the cucumbers were picked last week and today I decided to make Spicy Freezer Pickles. It didn't make sense to me that freezing and then thawing pickles would keep them crispy but I made these last year and they were delicious.<br />
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Pre-bath sauce. I bought these jars in Farmington, ME at Reny's. They are tall and between the size of a pint and quart.</div>
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Post water bath. Ready to put on the shelf</div>
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Spicy Frozen Cucumbers, from The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest, by Carol W. Costenbader<br />
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4 cups thinly sliced cucumbers ( I sliced on 1/8 in on the mandoline)<br />
2 large onions, thinly sliced (1/8 inch on mandoline)<br />
1 tablespoon salt<br />
1 cup sugar<br />
1/2 cup cider vinegar<br />
1 tablespoon mustard seeds<br />
1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric<br />
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Combine the cucumbers, onions and salt in container. Let stand for 2-4 hours to extract the moisture.<br />
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Rinse and drain the vegetables well. Blot them with paper towels to absorb moisture<br />
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Combine remaining ingredients and mix well until sugar dissolves completely, about 10 min. Stir in cucumbers and onions.<br />
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<span id="goog_336293759"></span><span id="goog_336293760"></span><br />Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-59300323439389060582013-08-07T17:26:00.003-07:002013-08-07T17:27:08.125-07:00Back from Hiatus<div style="text-align: center;">
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It's been awhile since I have posted. This summer has been a tough one because my work environment has become very toxic. My friends and family keep advising me to detach but I am finding that hard to do so I am going to try and come back to the blog.<br />
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My vegetable garden has done fairly well this summer considering we had a cold May and lots and lots of rain. The peas failed which was a disappointment because there are always enough to freeze but there ended up only being enough for a meal or two. The asian beans, on the other hand, grew like crazy. I froze and pickled some.<br />
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So far this summer I have made strawberry jam, strawberry vinegar, spicy dill beans and bread and butter pickles. There are enough cucumbers for another batch of pickles so I am going to make the freezer pickles I did last year. I received a whole bag of tomatoes yesterday from farmer Allan so I chopped them and cooked them done and ran them through the food mill. Next step is to cook down the tomato sauce and then can it.<br />
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There isn't much food in the house because the beanies are in Los Angeles. Tonight's meal was made out of the fridge.<br />
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Tomato Pea Shrimp Risotto</div>
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Beautiful spring day</div>
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It's the end of our fiscal year and one can only carry over so many vacation hours. I did not plan well this year because I had about 2 weeks worth of vacation to take in April. Emma and I went to Savannah for one week and I'm now taking the rest of the time off, a day here, a day there. That's Brian you hear in the background playing his tiny violin!</div>
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I spent the morning in the vegetable garden. I sifted several wheelbarrows full of compost and added it all to a couple of planting beds. The potatoes are late arriving this year but the email just came from Territorial Seeds that they have been shipped. So the bed for the potatoes is now loosened and compost worked in. I also prepared the bed for the asian long beans and edaname. Those were planted today along with more carrots, onions, purple beans, cilantro. Rocks keep appearing so I spent too much time picking them out of the beds.</div>
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The first real harvest!</div>
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Mint. Brian has been asked for minty limeade. </div>
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Mustard Greens. These wintered over and are about done. I think I will saute in bacon grease. Add a splash of vinegar. Yum</div>
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Leeks! These are beautiful. Not sure what to make. Either leek and potato soup or a tart of some kind.</div>
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Sean and I took the day off on Friday and drove up to the Brandywine Valley area of PA/DE. We had an ambitious 2-day plan but ended up only seeing a couple of places. The first stop was <a href="http://www.winterthur.org/">Winterthur Museum and Garden. </a> This is the estate of Henry Francis DuPont - amazing gardens and the house has 175 rooms! How could one possible live in a house with that many rooms. We spent several hours there and had no time to see anything else on Friday. On Saturday, we went to <a href="http://www.longwoodgardens.org/">Longwood Gardens</a> - the former estate of Pierre S. DuPont. (I assume these men were cousins). The Gardens are only two hours north of DC but are behind in what is blooming there. Daffodils just coming out while the daffodils are pretty much over in my yard. We ended up spending the morning and early afternoon at Longwood as there was so much to see so we were not able to get to the <a href="http://www.brandywinemuseum.org/">Brandywine River Museum</a>, home of the works of NC, Andrew and Jamie Wyeth.</div>
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It's chilly in DC this morning but my yard is in full bloom.</div>
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Creeping Jenny and Hakonechloa grass. This area is going to get more sun this year since the neighbor cut down the Mulberry tree that was shading it.<br />
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Flowering Solomon Seal. I wasn't sure this was going to make it so I'm very happy to see this.<br />
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Lilacs! I cut out lots of old branches from this last fall and my intention was to dig it up and replace it with something else. The lilac bush must have know my idea because this is the best it's bloomed in years. It's really too hot for lilacs in DC but this one has revived.</div>
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Oklahoma Redbud. I love this tree</div>
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Have I said how much I love working in a library? Access to so many books. Right now, I am working my way through all the books I have checked out and vow to not order anymore until I clean out what I have - so I am staking the Washington Post book reviews next to my desk, ready to go.</span><br />
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I've really been enjoying looking at books by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire. Everyone is familiar with the their<a href="http://fessendenfarmstead.blogspot.com/2013/03/caldecott-medal-winners.html"> mythology books </a>. Between our collection and Catholic University's collection, we have many of their books. <i>Ola</i></span><br />
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The next d'Aulaire book I have read is <i>Children of the Northlights</i>. This chronicles the life of the Sami people. It was written in 1935 and I wonder how much life has changed.</span><br />
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The next Caldecott Medal winners are 1945: <i>Prayer For a Child</i> by Rachel Field and illustrated by Elizabeth Orton Jones. <br />
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This is a prayer that Ford wrote for her own daughter and published posthumously because Ford died in 1942. I think this book is definitely one of its time. Right at the end of World War II and people need a little sentimentality in their life. I don't think this is the type of book that would even be considered today for the medal which is not criticizing the book but just a comment on how picture books have changed so much over the years.<br />
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In 1946 the winner was <i>The Rooster Crows</i> by Maud and Miska Petersham.</span><br />
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This is a book of Rhymes and Jingles that we all grew up saying. A part of a clapping game I did in grade school is in here - who remembers Miss Mary Mack? Included in here is Ring around a Rosies; One Potato Two Potatoes; Here is the Church, Here is the Steeple; Fuzzy Wuzzy was a Bear. I thought everyone was born knowing these rhymes! I certainly don't remember reading them anywhere. Do kids these days even know these?</span><br />
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In 1947 the winner was <i>The Little Island</i> by Margaret Wise Brown and Leonard Weisgard. </span><br />
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yes, the author of the beloved <i>Good Night Moon</i>. When I first read this, I assumed this little island was somewhere in Maine (seals and kingfishers abound) and reading a little about her life, she did have a house on Vinalhaven Maine. The illustrations remind me of Robert McCloskey's. Leonard Weisgard also had an Honor book that year, <i>Rain Drop Splash.</i> I'll have to take a look at that one. I know we have all the Caldecott winners in our collection but not sure about the Honor Winners.</span>Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-2896652256125186322013-04-10T18:03:00.001-07:002013-04-10T18:03:17.133-07:00Garden Projects<br />
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"why do all my projects make you stressed?"<br />
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Those are the words that Sean asked me last week, while we were at the community garden workday.<br />
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His projects make me stressed because I am a simple woman with simple needs. Sean is a complicated man with big ideas. So when I asked him to fix my garden gate, that translated into a visit to <a href="http://www.communityforklift.com/">Community Forklift</a> for inspiration. We bought a huge, thick piece of wood along with a screen door and some grandiose plan to build an architectural marvel in my garden. When he mentioned renting an auger, I said enough is enough, I AM A SIMPLE WOMAN, NO AUGER.<br />
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So, last Saturday, while I was helping to weed around the blackberry bushes, Sean was installing a new door. He used a shovel to dig the hole for the post (Danny, my garden neighbor asked if he used cement at the bottom of the hole - every one tries to help out in the garden!)<br />
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Thank you honey, you did good.<br />
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Since last fall, I have been collecting wine bottles. I have a cadre of friends saving them for me and finally, I have pictures to show what I am doing. Not sure how it's going to work out but as I told Penni, the garden manager, it's an experiment. If it doesn't work, I will pull out all the bottles and try something else. I am planting the bottles to create borders around the garden beds.<br />
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That boxy trellis you see? Another one of Sean's grand ideas. I said, build me a trellis for my long beans and I got a box!<br />
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<br />Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-12040838026624933992013-03-15T18:00:00.000-07:002013-03-15T18:16:42.570-07:00Favorite Caldecott books this weekMy friend and colleague, Alex, tells me that our library does indeed have every Caldecott winner. Good news as I continue the goal of reading all of them.<br />
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Turns out, the next two winners are in our collection at home. When the kids ran out of room in their bookshelves (Emma has 3 bookcases in her room - along with piles and piles of books all over the place. Brian has one bookcase - he is ruthless in weeding his books - no attachment to them at all), I bought a bookcase for my room and moved all the picture books there.<br />
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There is a system to this madness. The first two shelves are alphabetical by author. The third shelf is full of random non-picture adult books. The 4th shelf is all the signed books or books given and inscribed by friends and family. The first 1/3 of the 4th shelf has all books that have a character named "Emma". Every Christmas, my Emma gets a book about an Emma.<br />
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That 4th shelf represents 16 years of attending ALA and getting books signed by authors to Emma and Brian - often there is an illustration with the signature. Some authors represented on that shelf are Judy Sierra, Simms Taback, Peter Sis, David Shannon, Paul Zelinsky, Richard Peck, Jon Scieszka and Tomie DePaola. I don't think my kids realize what a collection of signed books they have.<br />
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The last shelf are again random books with some of my old favorites thrown in. In that first row are a series of books called "Companion Library". Two stories in one book - you finish the first story, then turn the book over and upside down and read the next story. Over several years, my grandmother gave these to me as presents. They were published in the early 60's by Grosset and Dunlop. I loved these books and read them over and over.<br />
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Behind these books, on that shelf are my Nancy Drews. I LOVED Nancy Drew. I wanted to be Nancy Drew. I devoured these books. I wanted best friends like Bess and George.<br />
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Another favorite book I read over and over and over is on this shelf. It was given to me by my 2nd grade teacher (whose name I can't remember at the moment). I lived in Bristol, CT and attended Mary Callen Elementary School. That school is no longer but the book remains. <i>From Sea to Sea</i>. It's a collection of stories about children. It was published in 1945 by the Silver Burdett Company. </div>
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Anyhoo, back to the Caldecott books. In 1942, <i>Make Way for Ducklings</i> by Robert McCloskey won. Who doesn't love this book? This is one I have in our home collection and it was given to Emma by Auntie No No and Uncle John in 1998. It must have been a gift for her first birthday. Auntie No No is really Auntie Finola but Emma wasn't able to pronounce Finola when she was little. <br />
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I was living in Boston when the first set of ducklings were installed in the Public Garden and I have brought my kids to see them and crawl all over them.<br />
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In 1943, <i>The Little House</i> by Virginia Lee Burton won the medal. I did not read this book when I was young but I did read and love <i>Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel</i> by the same author. I loved a TV show called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kangaroo">Captain Kangaroo</a> when I was young and he always read a book with Mr. Greenjeans on his show. Mike Mulligan was a favorite of Captain Kangaroo. As an aside, I always thought it would be fun to put together a bibliography of all the books that were read on that show - I would have to track down where the episodes are. Back to Virginia - the Little House is also in our home collection and I adore this book. The story, the illustrations, everything.<br />
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In 1944, <i>Many Moons</i> won the award. Its story is by James Thurber and its illustrated by Louis Slobodkin. This book I never heard of and checked it out of the library. Like the d'Aulaires, something in my brain tickled about the illustrator. He illustrated <i>A Hundred Dresses</i> by Eleanor Estes which we read in my mother/daughter book group many years ago. I also thought of the book <i>Caps for Sale</i> by <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esphyr_Slobodkina" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; color: #0b0080; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;" title="Esphyr Slobodkina">Esphyr Slobodkina</a>. No relation but weird they were working at the same time and had such similar names.<br />
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This is really a lovely book about a princess, her father the king, his wise men and a jester. The princess wants to hold the moon in her hand and no one but the jester is able to help her attain this wish.<br />
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It's been fun reading all these books. Only 7 more decades of books to go!Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-45200139841658648352013-03-06T13:31:00.002-08:002013-03-06T13:31:31.006-08:00Caldecott Medal winnersThe nice thing about working in a library is you can have new journals routed to you to read first. Even though I don't really choose books for the kids anymore, I still like to read <a href="http://www.hbook.com/">Horn Book</a>. It's a magazine for those who collect Children's literature but it's more than just book reviews. There are wonderful articles to read. The last issue had an article about the book <i><a href="http://www.hbook.com/2013/01/authors-illustrators/thomas-handforth-china-and-the-real-mei-li/">Mei Li </a></i>by Thomas Handforth. This book won the Caldecott Medal in 1939 and the article goes on to explain how it was the first book that featured illustrations on their own - not just incidental to the text. (The 1938 winner was <i>Animals of the Bible </i>by Dorothy P Lathrop). My library owned the book so I took a look and then decided I wanted to see all the Caldecott medal <a href="http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/caldecottmedal/caldecotthonors/caldecottmedal">winners</a>. (I need to ask Alex, the overlord of the children's collection if we own all the medal books - if so, how convenient for me).<br />
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In 1940, <i>Abraham Lincoln</i> by Ingri & Edgar Parin d'Aulaire won the medal. I am horrible with remembering authors and book titles but when I saw these authors, something clicked in my head.<br />
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The illustrations were familiar and then it hit me. Greek Myths! Norse Mythology!<br />
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My kids devoured D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths<br />
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These are wonderful books. I need to pull them out of the shelves and re-read them.<br />
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Turns out, there is a Facebook page called d'Aulaire's Children's Books. I don't know who maintains this page but it's full of illustrations of books and pictures of the couple in their studio. Wonderful.<br />
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The next Caldecott Medal book (1941) is <i>They Were Strong and Good </i>by Robert Lawson, who also illustrated Ferdinand the Bull. It's a story about Lawson's parents and grandparents - being used to the colorful picture books of today, this is a bit of a let down but I am no judge. I am certainly having fun looking at these book.<br />
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I need ideas on how to use my condiments - I know there are ones that you just always have to have available like - like - like what?<br />
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Jam: strawberry, raspberry, vanilla rhubarb, fig, apple butter<br />
Syrup: strawberry<br />
Chutney: apple nut<br />
Preserved lemon puree (this is a staple to always have)<br />
Tomato: powder, sun dried in oil, dehydrated not in oil<br />
Dulche de leche sauce<br />
Hot sauce<br />
Hot pepper relish<br />
Zucchini relish<br />
PIckles: Dilly beans, zucchini, bread and butter, cornichon<br />
Ginger<br />
Lemon, lime, key lime juice<br />
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Dijon mustard - 2 kinds<br />
Mayo<br />
Rhubarb Vodka<br />
Fish sauce<br />
Horseradish<br />
Worcestershire sauce<br />
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As you walked into the high school, there were a number of groups set up with tables in the atrium. I gathered a lot of information - more for Emma since she needs to come up with an idea for her Gold Award for girl scouts and I thought she could contact some of the gardening groups for possible projects. <a href="http://www.communityforklift.com/">Community Forklift</a> had a table (we love this place!) and I discovered that they have a small grant program for community gardens. I will be following up to see if I can get garden tools and wheelbarrows for my Friendship Gardens.<br />
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I talked to among others, folks from the Anacostia Riverkeepers, DC State Fair, DC Field to Fork Network and the Neighborhood Farm Initiative.<br />
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The first workshop we attended was an introduction to canning. Why you ask since I already know how to can? I don't know! I thought I would learn something new but alas, I did not. The woman who led the session was an experienced canner but amateur public speaker. I walked out saying to Sean that I could have taught the class better (he replied, of course you could have honey). The presenter did hold her canning tongs differently than me so maybe I have been doing that wrong all along. I think I will contact the organizers and see how I can get on the schedule!<br />
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These are beds the Groundwork Green team helped to build at a community garden in Ward 7. Notice how the boards are joined in the corners. Very clever.</div>
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Here is where I did not listen to myself. There jars came out of the boiling water hot, the vinegar was hot yet when I touched the jars to screw on the lids, the jars were stone cold. Huh? I said why are these jars cold and Sean answered, well the peppers were half frozen. I'm thinking to myself, ok, if I put cold jars back into the hot boiling water, they are going to break. So what did I do? I put the cold jars into the hot water and THEY BROKE! Well, 2 out of the 4 jars broke and let me tell you, the vapors from two broken jars of hot peppers drove Sean and I outside.</div>
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I always love when the Hellebores bloom. I was taking out the recycling and glanced over at the plants and saw they were in bloom. Spring planting is not far behind<br />
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On Saturday, Sean put the new window on the cold frame</div>
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Every fall, I buy 1/2 hog from <a href="http://www.freshandlocalcsa.com/">Farmer Allan</a>. This year he used a new butcher so I didn't quite get the variety I have had in the past. This year, it was sausage links, bacon, bulk sausage, ground pork, pork loin roasts (bone in) and fresh ham roasts. Also a couple of packages of ribs, 3 containers of lard and the pigs feet.</div>
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For this year's fest, I tried to make pork and chili stew but it came out as shredded pork. I used a Martha Stewart recipe found <a href="http://www.marthastewart.com/343226/green-chile-and-tomatillo-pork-stew">here</a>. Sean let me use his slow cooker and added some spices such as chili powder, ancho powder and cumin seeds. I only used 1 jalapeno pepper and it was plenty hot. Cooked for 12 hours, let sit in the fridge for another day and then shredded the pork. Not pretty but this is what it looked like before it started cooking</div>
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I made the Silver Palate macaroni and cheese recipe, King Arthur Baking book Maple cornbread (baked into muffins), salad and my homemade pickles. The award winning dilly beans and a pungent zucchini pickle made with lime. The cobbler recipe is from Cook's Illustrated.</div>
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Joan - excited about pork</div>
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Berry Cobbler - blueberries, sour cherries, blackberries, all picked last summer.</div>
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Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-7396820714346539092013-01-28T18:29:00.002-08:002013-01-28T18:29:51.020-08:00January ResolutionsThe only resolution I made this year was to try a new restaurant or two each month. Does that count as a resolution? I thought resolutions were punitive in nature - or good for you. I have started running again but didn't want that as a resolution although maybe actually signing up for some races would be a good thing. Those darn beanies take up my time and I can't seem to do the training schedule of running 4 days a week. Heck, I can't even find the time to do a 15 min yoga session in the morning to start my day.<br />
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I am excited about going on my first ever<a href="http://www.yogakatie.com/2013-retreat/"> yoga retreat </a>in March. Kent Island in March. I can barely bend over anymore so I better start doing a dog or two on a regular basis so I don't embarrass myself.<br />
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Here is where we are staying - wow!<br />
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The first place Sean and I tried was a new Vietnamese restaurant in Glover Park. Glover Park abuts Georgetown and is not too far from where I live. When I lived in Montreal, there were quite a number of Vietnamese place but I seldom ate there because it is meat based cuisine, and at the time, I was a vegetarian. I am a Johnny come lately to the cuisine and even now, I tend towards the sandwiches and not to the Pho with all that beef broth!<br />
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<a href="http://sprig-and-sprout.com/">Sprig and Sprout</a>, 2317 Wisconsin Ave - right next to the strip club. Speaking of strip clubs, that was another activity I would occasionally participate in while living in Montreal - there were two young women who lived in my dorm (Molson Hall - yes, that's right, named after the beer family) forever to be know as Penny and Julia. Penny and Julia loved going to the male strip clubs. They went every week. EVERY WEEK! Every so often, they would convince their friends to come along. To be honest, men look better with their clothes on. When Emma, Sean and I were in Montreal this past summer, Emma's favorite time was walking on St. Catherine's street, photographing all the sex shops. As she would say "good times"<br />
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So, the first new restaurant for the new year was Sprig and Sprout. A small place but very cheery inside. I had the Banh Mi with Lemongrass Chicken and Sean had the Pho with brisket. I'm not a restaurant reviewer but the food was delicious and I think we can add this place to our work lunch rotation.<br />
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The 2nd place we tried this month was not new to either of us. In fact, my kids LOVE <a href="http://www.mobysonline.com/">Moby Dick</a>. They have the best rice of anywhere. Beanie Two begs to go to Moby Dick and then won't share the rice with me. Sean and I ate at the Bethesda location - I always get the falafel and this time around got the platter which came with my own side of the delicious rice. Sean at some long meat cigar - he said it was good. Cheap delicious food.<br />
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I've started reading a number of food related DC blogs. I live in a city - there are so many places to eat! Why do Sean and I end up at the same places all the time. We need dates to go out with us to try new places!<br />
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This weekend is Porkfest 2013. My friends are coming for dinner. I don't think my pig was even delivered this fall before my friend Joan asked when the pig was ready for eating. I will take pictures and post again.<br />
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In the meantime, I am still trying to find out what this plant is!<br />
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<br />Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-47124988272726072552013-01-24T17:53:00.002-08:002013-01-24T17:53:58.360-08:00Jerusalem ArtichokesMy garden friend, Danny, grows Jerusalem Artichokes. He called me one day recently to say he had left me a bag of them in my garden plot. He also leaves me wine and vinegar bottles for my project of building borders around my beds (if I ever remember to bring the camera to the garden, I will get pictures of this). My gardening friends are all very nice. My son refuses to go to the garden with me anymore because in his words "you say you will only be a minute and you take an hour". That's because I have to stop and chat with the gardeners - that's part of being a member of a community garden.<br />
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Anyhoo, back to the artichokes. They aren't really artichokes but a member of the sunflower family. In fact, it's hard to tell the difference from your average sunflower<br />
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I have tried these vegetables in the past and have been ambivalent about them. This time around, I thought I would try them with potatoes in a gratin. It turned out pretty well but hard to tell what was a potato and what was the artichoke.<br />
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They can also be roasted. This week, I made roast chicken for me and the kids and decided to throw a few into the oven. There is a fine line between roasted to perfection and explosion in the oven. The vegetables will explode at a certain point and then taste pretty yucky!<br />
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I decided that I just didn't like them and put the bag of the rest of the vegetables on the back porch, to be tossed into the compost. The frugal side of me then took over as well as the guilty gardener - I don't like to throw anything away so I thought, what else can be made with these? Soup. Cream of Artichoke Soup.<br />
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So tonight, I made soup. Simmered the vegetables the onions and carrots in chicken broth and pureed with my swanky new Breville Blender.<br />
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Chicken broth, made last week. Once the broth cools, the fat can be skimmed off the top. Does anyone save this? I think it's called schmaltz - I don't save the chicken fat because I have jars of lard!<br />
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Once everything was soft and blended, I decided it was too thin and needed some thickness. So I took the rest of the potatoes and boiled them in the soup, then pureed again. Much better. Sean suggested adding Harissa which added the right amount of spice. What soup doesn't taste better with bacon?<br />
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The rest of the meal. There is also homemade fig jam. The cheese was <a href="http://www.salemville.com/">Salemville Amish Blue </a>and <a href="http://meadowcreekdairy.com/wholesale/wholesale_materials/GraysonNotes.pdf">Meadow Creek Grayson</a> - described as having a big beefy taste - which it did - pungent and strong but perfect with the fig jam.<br />
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<br />Staceyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01058252428343107079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7636297549193149894.post-58442029623824478472013-01-21T10:09:00.002-08:002013-01-21T10:09:19.285-08:00Books read: 2012I've been keeping a notebook by my bed where I write down the Title, Author and Month Read, for all my books. The notebook was started in 2005 when I returned a book to the library and then immediately could not remember the author or title!<br />
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Here is what I read last year. The * books are for mother/daughter book group. I tend towards mysteries and Swedish mysteries - the Swedes are such a dark, depressing people! I jest. The perks of working in an academic library is Inter Library Loan! For some of these books, when I say read, I mean skim. These are only the books that made the trip upstairs, it does not count the books that remain downstairs that I read. Doesn't everyone have books all over the house that they are reading at once?<br />
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<b>January 2012</b><br />
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<i>The Blood Spilt</i>, Asa Larsson<br />
<i>Do One Green Thing, </i>Mindy Pennybacker<br />
<i>The Locavore Way</i>, Amy Cotler<br />
<i>*Purple Heart</i>, Patricia McCormick<br />
<i>It's All About the Bike</i>, Robert Penn<br />
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<i>Grow</i> <i>the Good Life</i>, Michelle Owens<br />
<i>The Feast Nearby, </i>Robin Mather<br />
<i>Wonderstruck</i>, Brian Selznick<br />
<i>The Boy in the Suitcase</i>, Lene Kaaberbol<br />
<i>Treasure Island</i>, Sara Levine<br />
<i>Would it Kill You to Stop Doing That, </i>Henry Alford<br />
<i>French Dirt</i>, Richard Goodman<br />
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<i>Last Night at the Lobster</i>, Stewart Nan<br />
*<i>Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close</i>, Jonathan Foer (this is the only mother/daughter book in 7 years that I did not read. I skimmed. I did not enjoy it)<br />
<i>Religion for Atheists</i>, Alain de Botton<br />
<i>Rethinking Aging, </i>Nortin M. Hadler<br />
<i>1000 Mitzvahs</i>, Linda Cohen<br />
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<b>April</b><br />
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<i>Lost Washington</i>, <i>DC</i>, John DeFerraro<br />
<i>Random Acts of Kindness</i>, Conari Press<br />
<i>50 Popular Beliefs That People Think are True</i>, Guy Harrison<br />
<i>The Memory of Blood</i>, Christopher Fowler<br />
<i>Grow Your Food for Free</i>, David Hamilton<br />
<i>The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection, </i>Alexander McCall Smith<br />
<i>Gardening for a Lifetime</i>, Sydney Eddison<br />
<i>*Never Let Me Go</i>, Kazuo Shiguro<br />
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<b>May</b><br />
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<i>Death and the Penguin</i>, Andrey Kurkov<br />
<i>The Knitter's Life List</i>, Gwen W Steege<br />
<i>*How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent</i>, Julia Alvarez<br />
<i>Ashes to Dust</i>, Yrsa Sigurdardottir<br />
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<b>June</b><br />
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<i>The Stonecutter</i>, Camilla Lackberg<br />
<i>Penguin Lost</i>, Andrey Kurkov<br />
<i>Onward and Upward in the Garden, </i>Katharine White<br />
<i>How to be Richer, Smarter, and Better Looking Than Your Parents, </i>Zac Bissonnette<br />
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<b>July</b><br />
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<i>*The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had</i>, Kristen Levine<br />
<i>When We Were the Kennedys</i>, Monica Wood (this book is a memoir of growing up in Mexico, ME - which is next to Peru, ME where my mother lives<b><i>)</i></b><br />
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<b>August</b><br />
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<i>The Hare With Amber Eyes</i>, Edmund de Waal<br />
<i>Birdseye</i>, Mark Kurlansky<br />
<i>The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken</i>, Tarquin Hall<br />
<i>Rue Fabre</i>, Jean Claude Germain<br />
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<b>September</b><br />
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<i>Overtime, </i>Frank Deford<br />
<i>The Beautiful Mystery</i>, Louise Penny (one of my favorite mystery writers)<br />
<i>The Gallows Bird</i>, Camilla Lackberg<br />
<i>Space Chronicles, </i>Neil deGrasse Tyson<br />
<i>We Took to the Woods, </i>Louise Dickinson Rich (about moving her family to Maine, in 1940's, not far from where my mother lives)<br />
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<b>October</b><br />
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<i>*The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake</i>, Aimee Bender<b> </b><br />
<i>Murder in the Rue Dumas, </i>M.L. Longworth<br />
<i>Phantom</i>, Jo Nesbo - I really like this author but just could not finish this book - too violent.<br />
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<b>November</b><br />
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<i>Brat Farrar, </i>Josephine Tey<b> </b><br />
<i>*Joy Luck Club, </i>Amy Tan<br />
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<b>December</b><br />
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<i>Heads in Beds, </i>Jacob Tomsky<b> </b> <br />
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