Posts under ‘Dirty Business’

Though I had not planned to end up at a big box store, after the local hardware store employee sent me hightailing it in search of dirt, I decided a return to Home Depot was the most obvious solution to the problem. The day was getting ever-later, and I still needed to put my new [...]

I have rebelled against the issue of putting drainage material in the bottom of containers since I started gardening in Iowa. From day one of this adventure, I took one look at the bags of pea gravel and thought, Haul a bunch of rocks home from the store just to line the bottom of some [...]

The KFC Double Down might be simple blasphemy, or just a sign that the apocalypse is nigh. Were the Four Horsemen eating Double Downs while they rode into town? Certainly, anyone who eats more than half of one in their lifetime greatly ups their chances of dying before December 2012. I say this as someone [...]

There is no question that I should, by now, have dirt in my wine barrels. I should have them fully prepped, and I should be ready for Pilar’s seedlings to show up, since she swears they’re almost big enough to send home with me. In fact, I should probably already be growing lettuce. Or herbs. [...]

At the risk of allowing this site to become an echo chamber, I want to point you in the direction of Trey Pitsenberger’s blog, and Trey’s take on the issue of the unscented Home Depot tomatoes I highlighted last week. Trey’s post mostly points back at me (echo…echo….echo…), but I think he provides a really [...]

On a blustery Thanksgiving morning, six months after I moved to Oakland, I took my parents to celebrate Mass. They were visiting me for the first time in this new city I called home, and I wanted to show them the newly-dedicated Cathedral of Christ the Light, which I’d been attending since its dedication Mass [...]

During the height of my move to the new apartment, I made a last-minute run for more packing paper. The place I’d plan to buy the paper was closed, which sent me hightailing to Home Depot, the only place I could think of on short notice between where I was at the time and my [...]

I am a huge fan of a good party. I mean, really. BRING IT. But when that party involves tomato destruction, well, I simply can’t condone it. And this is why I must condemn the (otherwise) good people of Buñol, in Spain, where they just celebrated the 64th annual “Tomatina,” an opportunity for people to [...]

I’ve spent a lot of time during the past few years educating myself on the food I eat, and have worked hard to make ever-better, ever-wiser choices. I’m by no means vegetarian, but I eat a lot less meat than I used to. I try to shop for locally-produced and -grown goods…most of the time. [...]

Finally, FINALLY, someone has found my blog by searching for “tomato porn.” My work is done here.