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Blanco, Texas : Thyme Traveler : November 2007
Thanks for Nuthin' 2007
November 30, 2007 16:58
In this season of thanks, let us remember to appreciate all the things we do not have. No war in the immediate neighborhood, no smog, no gangs patrolling the park, no scary cops, no plagues, no drought, no flood, no nuthin'.
I, for one, have no more heavy landscaping to do for the rest of my life, though the maintainence will keep us busy forever. Thanks be for a big yard to play. Thanks be for the guys with the bulldozers who started the good
work, though they left a wreck that's been two years landscaping.
We still have remodeling issues to carry into the holiday family conversations, though I'm really bored with that subject, but there are piles of presents from the hardware store, just waiting for vacation time to play with them.
Thanks for handymen.
The garden is still giving us baby green beans, sweet peppers and all the Italian herbs we can eat, though the cheap wire tomato cages are a big tangled eyesore, and guess who gets to untangle them? I'd give lots of
thanks for some big, strong muscles, but mine seem to get smaller every year.
The stink bug problems came from rank overgrowth, which pretty much describes that tomato row. First they got frozen, then they got blown over, then the "dwarf" marigolds and wild blackberries grew 4 feet high all in
between. It was like hacking your way thru the jungle to stalk the wily tomato, only to find out that pretty orange ball was a flower. Thanks for the lesson I learned from that.
Thanks for the Arnosky's who feed me when I cannot feed myself, it's lucky to have them right down the mountain. It would be so easy to get lazy and let them do all the work, but then I'd have no garden to give thanks for.
I'm still stuffed with last recipe's granola and am on a salad diet, so the Recipe of the Week is: Eat Your Greens! They are cheap everywhere, and if you don't have deer nor goats, you probably have most of what you need out
on the lawn.
Remember, what's blooming in your medicine garden is probably just the cure for whatever you have at the time.
Winter and early spring, when the little lettuces of all colours are popping up in the beds is my favourite part of gardening, like a psychedelic wonderland. You get to go out there and thin the crowd for salads and tacos. We have Mexican oregano, lemon balm, nasturtiums, sage, and parsley in abundance right now, plus the usual rosemary, thyme, and marjoram.
Oh, and marigolds. Even the ones I pulled up and threw against the blackberry fence are still blooming in this moist weather. Thanks for weeds. If I can't eat 'em, they at least give me good exercise.
You know that Christmas carol, "The First Oh, Well"? Sing along!
What I miss most, being far from my family, is the singing. Do y'all sit around and sing while you're cooking and doing the dishes? My voice comes from my daddy's side of the family, that deep bass tone. I give thanks for
going to Catholic school, where the sisters had choir every day where we learned everything from Handel to the Rogers & Hammerstein, and big pageants at every holy day to show off our talents. I read somewhere that the
"Sound of Music" is the new "Rocky Horror Picture Show" with dressed up audiences that sing along. ??? Thanks for weird and amusing people!
Speaking of: would you care to join us for an entire day and evening of fun at the Armadillo Christmas Bazaar, downtown Austin, on the Saturday before Christmas? Everyone who is Anyone will be there, plus all that great food
and music and handmade art. The Armadillo World Headquarters was my home for two or three years (tho' they say if you can remember the 70's, you weren't there). I was that skinny waitress carrying six pitchers of Lone Star, actually got my start in business making Cozmik Cowboy shirts for the bands. The present empresario of the 'Dillo, Bruce, was just a barely-legal bartender in the Beer Garden, where everyone from Willy to Tom played for
lunch, and you could get real full of good cookin' for one dollar. This year, we are a swanky show at the Convention Center, oo la la, but the food and the music are still straight from the heart. The best part is, I don't
have to work, though my beadwork is on display with Robert Hendrix Day. I'll get there early on Saturday and hold a big table. See ya there, any thyme between 11 a.m and 11 p.m.
For specifics, go to the website, www.armadillobazaar.com Thank you!
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