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I fear I’ve killed off a lot of my pep­per plants, both through pulling them up with weeds (we have weeds that look remark­ably like pep­per plants) and now through the cold. I’m quite dis­ap­point­ed. Maybe I’ll try putting some… Read morepep­pers

Carl and I have been busy in the gar­den. It’s been lots of fun. I’ve plant­ed: lots of toma­toes, pep­pers, zuc­chi­ni, cucum­bers, mel­ons, onions, pota­toes, sweet pota­toes, car­rots, let­tuce (which is bolt­ing), rhubarb, ama­ranth, and, nat­u­ral­ly, bor­age. My herbs are… Read moreGar­den Excite­ment

I’m sure at least some of you are won­der­ing why I chose the name “Ves­ta Legal” for my firm. First, a lot of lawyers use their names as their firm names, some­thing which I believe is root­ed in eth­i­cal rules.… Read morechoos­ing a name

As my dear hus­band point­ed out, I haven’t updat­ed this since I was study­ing for the Mis­souri bar. In the past three years, I have tak­en (and passed) three bar exams — Mis­souri, Illi­nois, and Kansas — worked for two… Read morenew firm!

Anoth­er thing: I’m work­ing on a recipe for gluten-free com­mu­nion bread, prefer­ably unleav­ened. I’ll post a recipe if I find one I like, but I would love sug­ges­tions!

I’m sure you’ve all been dying to know what I’ve been doing for the last six months, so here’s the update. I left my job and start­ed my own firm, so that’s cool. I’m doing estate plan­ning, though right now,… Read moreanoth­er long absence

So I accom­plished quite a bit this week­end. Fig­ured out how to sew with Ultrex (a Gore-tex type mate­r­i­al), got the guest room ready for a friend (quite a feat, I assure you, as it is also my sewing room),… Read morea pro­duc­tive week­end

I apol­o­gize for the long hia­tus. It’s been a few weeks of out-of-town week­ends and very busy weeks. Today, I’m going to make anoth­er two loaves of sour­dough bread, exper­i­ment with GF choco­late chip cook­ies using a recipe I found… Read moreWhat I’m doing today

I made banana muffins and banana bread over the week­end using two dif­fer­ent recipes. The muffins used brown rice flour and pecans, and the bread used teff flour and cream cheese. I had nev­er cooked with teff flour before. Appar­ent­ly… Read moreBread. Mmm.

I’m sure I will have many posts on dis­joint­ed mat­ters, but here is the first in my recent posts. First, the sweet pota­to chips were a huge hit with the dogs. I think I may make more tomor­row for them.… Read moreDis­joint­ed mat­ters