I love a day that is longer than I am, unspooling itself with radiant light from end to end. Bright before I awaken, bright as I close my eyes to sleep. I love the solstice. Ten million hours of daylight stuffed into one day.
We got our first heat advisory today. Welcome, summer! I put away the Claritin about two weeks ago. Goodbye, spring! I took twenty-six Claritin this year, and on some days I was still pretty miserable. I may have to increase my local honey intake during the winter months.
I made Thai for dinner. I went out to the deck and snipped cilantro for a garnish because my cilantro plant is a mighty behemoth, full of tender little leaves begging to adorn and enhance my meals. Oh, it was tasty, and smelled so good. I love using the cilantro so much, I am considering hunting down a fresh salsa recipe that calls for loads of it. When the tomatoes ripen. Yes, indeed, there’s four green, little tomatoes on two of my plants out there. Soon, soon, soon. My basil plant, which looked to die, is full of vibrant green leaves. Fresh pesto made in the very near future. I gave in and gave the lemon balm a bigger pot, and it’s ginormous and beautiful. I staked the sage, and it survived the process. About time to bake some fresh herb bread, I think.
Everyone has big plans. At Sophia’s school they’re talking about embarking on a building project to renew some or all of the aging buildings on campus. At my writer’s group there’s a hot and heavy discussion about forming a writer’s colony. I would love a place to go for a couple of weeks at a time to get away and write. However, I think what I have in mind (a quiet, simple refuge) is not what others have in mind, so I’ve resolved to stay out of the discussion for now.
The staring into space part of Cualcotel is proceeding nicely. I’ve outlined a plot in 25 cards, a system that’s so alien to me I actually had to look up how to do it on the intraweb (I used a mishmash of these two methods, for the curious). I’ve no idea if it will work, but my story now has triple the number of bad guys it did last time around. It looks like I’m headed away from primarily internal conflict. That’s probably a good thing.
I’m also thinking over the slushbomb F&SF on August 18th plan. I’d love to take part in that. I’ve never submitted anything to F&SF, and don’t think I have anything written I would submit to them. That’s part of my own fears about not being genre enough for standard specfic markets, though. What is it I write, again? Still, if I can come up with and execute a crunchy enough idea by August 18th, I’m so about slushbombing. It’s like carnaval, no? Also, while I’m being a fun feminist, I’d go to an Equality Now Serenity showing if there was one here in St. Louis. Maybe there’s one in your neck of the woods?
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I personally love to cut up mango with fresh ginger and cilantro and use it as a chutney by baking it on top of whatever needs garnishing. You can use loads of cilantro that way. Also goes very well with black beans and corn and mozzarella cheese or your choice for nachos.
You are still the wordsmith I ever remember. Do you remember telling me I could fly and making me believe it? I hope you do. Of course at age three and four you do think you are Wonder Woman if you are hoisted up into the air higher than your front door.
Also, I was tutoring a kid about 2 months ago who was reading Frannie and Zooey and realized I never kept my promise to read that as you had recommended, I have now and enjoyed it. Confessions I found was best to read with a journal. I am still not through it either. The "Dark is Rising" series is one of my favorites.
I personally love to cut up mango with fresh ginger and cilantro and use it as a chutney by baking it on top of whatever needs garnishing. You can use loads of cilantro that way. Also goes very well with black beans and corn and mozzarella cheese or your choice for nachos.
You are still the wordsmith I ever remember. Do you remember telling me I could fly and making me believe it? I hope you do. Of course at age three and four you do think you are Wonder Woman if you are hoisted up into the air higher than your front door.
Also, I was tutoring a kid about 2 months ago who was reading Frannie and Zooey and realized I never kept my promise to read that as you had recommended, I have now and enjoyed it. Confessions I found was best to read with a journal. I am still not through it either. The "Dark is Rising" series is one of my favorites.
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Do you grow your tomatoes upside down, or on stakes? We’ve had wonderful success the last two summers with these "topsy turvy" tomato planters. You put a crapload of soil in this tube thing, with styrofoam dividers, and the plant goes in the bottom. It grows out through the bottom with the leaves still facing up, and the tomatoes are sort of floating. No bruises, no rabbits, no trouble. The tomatoes are a thing of beauty. Here’s an Amazon link to the thing I’m talking about. I heart them. http://www.amazon.com/gp/pr…
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Also, I don’t know if you have high South American standards for such things (I wouldn’t blame you if you did) but I wing it on salsa. Chop some tomatoes, chop some onions, chop some cilantro, cover and shake, refrigerate. If someone in the house wants heat in the salsa (I don’t think it needs it), throw in a little of the juice from jarred jalapenos. It’s bush-league, as salsa goes, but I do put in loads of cilantro, and it makes me happy.
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Also also, are you watching the futbol?