by Sue Schlabach | Aug 15, 2012 | Creativity, Eating and Cooking, Garden, Local Food, Recipes, Summer
Hey it’s hot, so sauté the watermelon. My brother-in-law first suggested this to me a few years ago. I wasn’t convinced that watermelon would cook into anything but a wet soggy mess. I was never so happy to be wrong. It’s similar to my earlier belief...
by Sue Schlabach | Aug 13, 2012 | Design, Housewares
I came upon the Indian print textiles of Bungalow in the marvelous home décor shop ivo & co in Barcelona, and brought a tea towel home with me. It hasn’t touched a dish yet, since most tea towels suffer a messy fate in this house—too quickly stained with tea...
by Sue Schlabach | Aug 10, 2012 | Family, Natural World, Summer, Vermont
I grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania where summers were hot and muggy. When a thunderstorm rolled in I loved to sit on the porch swing watching sheets of rain pour down off the roof, with the lilacs 15 feet away becoming a mere shadow of themselves through...
by Sue Schlabach | Aug 2, 2012 | Artisanal Living, Garden, Summer, Vermont
….I had a lot of things on my mind (as the song by The Band goes). This morning started at midnight when my alarm clock went off. Apparently we had a blip of a power outage last night and it set my alarm back to 12:00 a.m. I—mercifully—got back to sleep without...
by Sue Schlabach | Jul 16, 2012 | Holidays, Summer, Vermont
The town of Stafford, Vermont, holds one of our favorite parades of the year the weekend closest to the Fourth of July. Last Saturday rain threatened, but held off. And still a crowd formed around the green in Strafford’s upper village to see kilted men and...
