Ready for my close-up

  New Scorpion exhaust The Red Runt got a little bling in the form of a brand-new Scorpion exhaust system, just in time for the Mini picnic on Sunday. Also, it's now "no longer cute" 🙂   Read and post comments | Send to a friend

Veggies – 7/10/08

    July 10 2008 This week's organic bounty from the farm (Kretschmann's): more (much more) zucchini, lettuce, beets, Swiss chard, and parsley. New this week: fennel, a cucumber (no idea how they got one that big this early), zucchini blossoms, new potatoes, and an onion. And this is the "small" subscription. Also, for the…

Welcome and goodbye

Hi neighbors! Please join me in welcoming my son Alex to Vox! He's leaving tomorrow for a semester in Brisbane, which he plans to blog about.  Any comments will be welcome, to encourage him to continue… 🙂 And the goodbye is for my "little" boy – although you've been away from home for 4 months before, it's never been…

David Sedaris

When You Are Engulfed in Flames David Sedaris Nikki & I went down to Joseph-Beth at Southside Works today for a book reading and signing by David Sedaris. I'm glad we got there as early as we did (arrived at 12:30 for the 2:00 reading), because that allowed us to get a seat even after getting…

Good Eats

Oooh, this Tuesday is the first veggie pickup of the season – time for some gooood eats! I can't wait to see what we get! The only problem is then I never know till Tuesday what to plan for meals for the rest of the week, and today's the only day I have time to…

Vox Hunt: In Bloom

Show us the loveliest flower in your garden.Submitted by Allio’s blog. Bleeding Heart I think my Bleeding Heart plant is very cool looking. This photo was taken over a month ago, so the whole plant is about double this size (it dies back to nothing and re-grows each Spring – another bit of coolness). Bleeding Heart…

Mohican State Forest

For the long holiday weekend, we decided (after much internet searching) to go to Mohican State Forest (near Mansfield, OH), since it was the closest thing to where Nikki is, and we thought just in case it was too crowded we wanted to be able to fall back to staying at “her” camp.   Mohican…