Welcome to Donald Judd’s world: Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX.
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KozyCoach
Alison and I just checked into our accommodations at El Cosmico in Marfa, TX. We can’t wait for our first night in a tin can!
Apparently, Carol sweared that Grandma Hughes lived in a Kozy Coach just like this one…
Another of the trailers for rent by the night at El Cosmico (the cubic shapes next to both trailers are the outdoor! showers):
Big Bend Picnic
Beside the Rio Grande on March 19th, we picnicked on canned fish, tortillas, dried fruit, and cabbage salad with raisins.
Later we soaked in a natural hot spring next to the river, which was only about 15 feet wide at that point, and only knee deep.
View of Chisos mountains from our lodge at Big Bend National Park.
Seventh Heaven
I’m in NYC for work and just took the 7 express train out to Flushing, New York’s vibrant new “Chinatown” where many of the newest immigrants have settled. It’s bright, loud, crowded, and has some of the best Chinese food in the City. I thought y’all might like to see what I got. Everything was fantastically good, and “buns” are actually Xiao Long Bao, or Shanghai style soup dumplings, and they were as good as I remember them from our visit to China. High praise.
Just A Moment Ago
Happy Solstice Sunrise from Maine
I Got Yer Christmas Tree Right Here
Alison decided we needed a tree this year, but the small trees on our property grow under big trees so tend to be a bit sparse, so she’s going to make a balsam fir bouquet.
Perfect Pizza
Alison has decided that we will be having pizza every week while we have the wood-fired cook stove burning. Pray for cold weather, y’all; yum.
Bees at Rector farm in Maine
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Working The Autumn Harvest
Alison and I are bringing the remainder of our garden into the house for either instant processing (mmmm, Leek and Potato soup!), canning and processing for later consumption (pickled beets, pickled jalepeno peppers and carrots, kimchi), or putting things straight into storage (onions, garlic, carrots, beets, potatoes, cabbage).
Meeting Montreal
(not the apartment; this is a Bixi bike stand)
So here I am, in a Craig’s List short-term apartment (read: a cheap functional dump w/wifi) near McGill University after having spent the day geeking out at the American Cheese Society conference downtown at the impressive and modern Palais des Congres across from the minimalist cool modern Quebec provincial government building. I’m chillin’ in between a full-day of learnin’ (you can see the geek stuff over at the Guild web site), and an evening of partai-ing on the Quebec provincial government’s dime. I got here by renting and then riding a Bixi bike that I parked at the stand on the corner of the block where my apartment is located. I’ve got my laptop on my lap thinkin’ that Montreal is not quite but also is more than I thought it would be.
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