http://peterography.setupmyblog.com peter's graphy Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:59:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Yesterday I took advantage of some recent tick-killing freezes to descend into the woods behind our house to cut firewood. A large red oak died last year, but had the courtesy to remain standing while its wood seasoned, before it fell recently so I could reach it with my ... http://peterography.setupmyblog.com/archives/37 I've never understood how anyone in this universe can stay bored for long. I assume most of my blog readers inhabit the same universe as I do, so don't you agree that this is a damned interesting one, as universes go? Take this exploding comet, for instance. Up until a few ... http://peterography.setupmyblog.com/archives/36 Thank god the blog writers aren’t on strike. Where would we put the picket lines? Second Life? Except for football I don’t watch TV anyway so the Hollywood writers' strike is no big deal for me. Maybe a long strike will encourage others to junk the boob tube, too, and ... http://peterography.setupmyblog.com/archives/35 Finally.  We got a freeze last night.   The weather forecast gave fair warning so I took in the last of my basil yesterday and made pesto - mixing it with sun-dried tomatoes as I've learned to do in recent years.   While I ground and pureed the ingredients I watched the Patriots do ... http://peterography.setupmyblog.com/archives/34 It's been preternaturally warm this fall.    Today is in the 80's and at my house we haven't seen any temperature below 40F.   "Preternaturally warm" is one of those hackneyed quasi-literary phrases that's supposed to mark me as an educated writer, and inform you that you're reading something of substance.  More often it ... http://peterography.setupmyblog.com/archives/33 I’m in Rock City – that’s Rock City the bookstore and café, in Rockland Maine. Last year it was called the Second Read, but nothing else has changed. It’s still the classic used bookstore and coffeehouse with little tables upfront where all the local bohemians and a few out-of-state ones ... http://peterography.setupmyblog.com/archives/32 My butternut squash vines have died off - victims, I guess, of radical swings in hydration and temperature, so I harvested the squash. Most of them looked ready to harvest anyway - a few still had green veins. Last year I had 15. ... http://peterography.setupmyblog.com/archives/31 Back in my callow youth, before I met my wife, I dated another Jewish woman. When she described Yom Kippur, I said something like, "you mean it's a really serious, solemn day when you're supposed to reflect on all your sins and moral shortcomings, and confess and atone ... http://peterography.setupmyblog.com/archives/30