Before I even started gardening seriously, I had google every website to figure out what to do with my limited, dirtless space. But I didn’t ever google “vegetable container gardening” until after this year’s experiments in urban container gardening and even then, I was overwhelmed by the detail involved. Vegetable gardening isn’t completely easy, but it [...]
Archive for June, 2008
PUG Lessons: Urban Container Vegetable Gardening 101
Posted in The Garden on June 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Summer 2008: Old Navy vs Gap vs Banana Republic
Posted in The Wardrobe on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Oh Gap Inc.! I can purchase anything I want from you now with one simple checkout! And because I’ve got one of your cards, I can get lots of rewards and free shipping. But there is a problem here in my wardrobe:
I can’t buy your stuff this season.
Let me explain: it’s not that I don’t [...]
As I walked in…
Posted in Uncategorized on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I realized that this was the last time I would be coming into work at 3am. It didn’t console me.
The End of an Era
Posted in The Mirror, tagged personal reflections on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In about a week, I’m about to start a new job. Actually, I’m about to start a new career. I’m leaving the world of science to enter the world of law, which sounds like a huge leap, but really it’s a step in the right direction for me.
I’ve been really frustrated with science for some [...]
Summer 2008: New York and Company
Posted in The Wardrobe, tagged new york and company, skirts on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have a confession to make: I don’t shop at NYCO.
I had a bad experience there. I purchased a shirt there in 2003. It shrank after I washed it once and because of my long torso, the button down shirt hit at my bellybutton. So I never purchased anything there again. I want to shop there too: the [...]
Weekend Update: Busy, Frustrated, and Covered with Paint.
Posted in The Mirror on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve postponed my rainbarrel project, a trip to PA, and a couple’s weekend to get a few things done before my new job starts. So far, the weekends have been packed with home improvement projects but there is a light at the end of June…
June 14: Repaired the water damage to my skylight/ceiling. It looks [...]
The Business Casual Quest
Posted in The Wardrobe on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have just under three weeks to go before the new job. And only one weekend to do real shopping. Actually, just this Saturday. So I’m heading off to the outlet malls, but not without some reasonable criteria:
No dry clean only clothing.
No cotton t-shirts, polos, camis or tank tops.
At knee or below knee A-line skirts.
Easy to [...]
PUG Lessons: Know What to Grow
Posted in The Garden, tagged baltimore gardening, garden learnings, Pigtown Urban Gardening, urban container gardening on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is my first installment of my Garden Learnings, which I’ll be calling PUG: Pigtown Urban Gardening. I was thinking about doing BUG, but Baltimore Urban Gardening is a non-profit organization I highly respect. So PUG it is.
This year I learned a very important lesson for my wallet and for my garden: know what [...]
The Perfect Reusable Bag
Posted in The Garden, The Pantry, tagged baggu, green living on June 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Reusable cotton grocery bags are terribly unfashionable: bulky, heavy, and not really washable (1) they litter my house pitifully. I thought I would just end up recycling all of my plastic bags for the rest of my life (2), but then we went to India.
India is a haven for the bargain savvy and a wasteland [...]
Greencycling Green Onions and Leeks
Posted in The Garden, tagged greencycling, kitchen scraps on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Have I ever mentionned to you that my mother is living with us? And she had lived with us for 6 months before she discovered that we had a cement backyard? With large pots filled with dirt?
This “re-discovery” sent my mother into a flurry of activity and excitement in May. She knew I had grown [...]
