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I joined a sorority!
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Well, if you’re Liz, you go halfsies on a sweater with your best Dude and make an incredible half-Hannukah/half-Christmas sweater that is so amazing that you just can’t help but stare at it and keep saying, “oh my God, it’s a full menorah when you’re side-by-side! I can’t believe it!” Well played Rosenberg, well played.
There are 2 ways to see the trailer in action- you can either go directly to Holmes Farm on Saturdays and support their farm stand or catch them at the Plymouth Farmer’s Market every Thursday at Plymouth Plantation.
And we also had to pay homage to Riverdog’s River-Cat, Dennis, the friendliest cat I’ve ever met and the shop’s unofficial mascot. Dennis alone is reason enough to stop by the shop for a visit.
With limited space in my small city yard every inch counts so each Spring I am faced with a decision: do I want pretty flowers or a functioning vegetable garden? I envision myself having friends over for dinner and quickly running outside with my schears to an adorable, and lovingly attended to, little vegetable garden- I’d grab fresh herbs for the potatoes, pluck some peppers and lettuce for the salad and maybe bring in some grape tomatoes for my friends to snack on before dinner. They just love that. Then, after dinner we’d all get in my spaceship and go visit Unitron, the home of the last living unicorn. In other words, it’s not going to happen.
What did happen however is this- a triple-decker half veggie/half flower tower of compromise. I’m taking baby steps to becoming the world’s best hostess by growing only the greens to my future salads and I still have room for flowers!
Here’s how I did it:
First, I invited Liz over who did everything. (This was an important step because Liz is wicked good at this stuff and because I have a cast on my right arm up to my elbow right now.)
Next, we took pots from the pot graveyard on the side of my house and selected 3 in decending sizes. (These don’t have to match perfectly, as you can see.)
Pick a sunny spot in your garden to place the biggest pot- we nestled ours right into this Vinca Minor- and fill with soil until just below the top.
Add a small dowel or bamboo rod into the largest pot and thread themiddle pot onto it burying the pot about an inch into the soil of the largest pot.
Then trim the dowel until about 3-4″ is showing to be inserted into the smallest pot.
And finally, you are ready to plant your Garden of Compromise. Liz and I decided on some green lettuce, purple lettuce, white & purple flowers, 2 small cascading plants and topped the whole thing off with a ponytail fern.
Thanks Liz!! ❤ ❤ ❤
And here are 6 reasons why you should join in and go
Earth Day 2012 is Sunday, April 22nd- that’s 10 days away.
For the next 10 days I challenge you to do one act a day to help clean up the earth and lessen our environmental footprint on it.
Day 10: Go to EarthDay.org and pledge an Act of Green. I pledged to quit using plastic utensils. Plastic utensils are super convenient and I fully admit that I’m guilty of using them but did you know that according to the EPA only 8% of plastic is actually recycled in America? For the sake of argument let’s say that I use one 3-piece set of plastic cutlery a day. That’s 3 pieces of hard to recycle plastic (fork, knife, spoon) per workday, per year….the average person works about 261 days a year…that’s 783 pieces of throw-away cutlery!! And that’s just accounting for what I use AT WORK…what about weekends, while traveling, picniks, etc. Woah.
My solution: The obvious choice is to use metal cutlery whenever possible but I work 40 hours a week with a 2-hour round-trip commute which means, I’m not home a lot so- I bought this:
Stool: $4 at a garage sale
Can of spray paint: $3.95
Time: 10 minutes to sand/spray, 1 hour to dry
Result: adorable new red plant stand
**TIP** If you want to make this project extra easy, set the stool and the spray paint outside and tell Liz you’ll do it in a minute. She can’t resist!
Step 7 Pour half of your marshmallow mixture onto half of your prepared baking sheet (we didn’t use tinfoil cause we’re rule breakers) and spread using a rubber spatula.
Step 8 Put a few drops of pink food coloring into the remaining half of the mixture and stir until it is a uniform pink.
Step 9 Pour the remaining mixture onto the other half of the sheet and spread out using a spatula.
OPTIONAL
Step 10 Coat marshmallow mixture with sprinkles!
Step 11 The recipe calls for the marshmallows to “sit out for several hours or overnight to fully set up.” However, because we are horribly impatient and wanted to eat marshmallows NOW we just set ours outside in the snow for about a half an hour and they were fine.
Step 12 Using heart shaped cookie cutters (metal ones with sharp edges work best) begin cutting out your heart shapes.
Repeat until there are no more hearts to be cut out and you’re left with a delicous pile of marshmallow remnants.
Step 13 Make some hot chocolate, plop in a couple of marshmallows and make somebody’s day!