Hope we’re all ready for this weekend’s big event… We may have passed the dog days of August, but the fun never ends at the LFM. The Lansdowne Farmers Market, together with Animal Friends of Lansdowne, proudly announces the Return of Doggie Day! If you’re new in town, or just haven’t been paying attention, you should know that here in …
Labors of Love…
Before we begin…please take a moment to list all the things you did already this morning that required some technical assistance. For instance, did you turn on a water faucet to brush your teeth? Flush a toilet to…well…just nod your head. Did you turn on a light? Brew some coffee? Re-set your AC for today’s heatwave? This Labor Day weekend, …
SOME LIKE IT HOPPY
I love writing this newsletter each week, but sometimes it can take me hours, fingers poised over the keyboard, to hit on a new topic of conversation…and sometimes inspiration is no further than the vendor across the aisle. In this case, Conshohocken Brewery. Beer! Brilliant! It suddenly struck me that I was woefully ignorant on everything about the brew except …
The Summer Smiles
What, given 21st-century technology, is the shortest distance between two points? Go ahead, take a guess…I’ll wait. Time’s up. Correct response: the distance between your right and left ears. Because nothing can transport you over the miles and years like your memories. We’ve all been here…and suddenly there. And wherever “there” is, most times it makes us smile. The best …
What’s the Buzz about Honey?
Greetings from Ocean City MD, where I’m busy conducting extensive research on local wildlife…more commonly known as a destination wedding. Traditions sure have changed since I was a blushing bride. The demure hearts and flowers have left the building, and the birds and the bees have other things to do. Today fancy dresses paired with flip-flops are de rigueur. I …
The Sweet Life
Home from the hills. Getting away is nice, but it’s also nice to get back…to know where we keep the coffee and how to use the coffee maker, falling into a familiar bed… home sweet home. And I’m looking forward to seeing you right where I left you…so I’ll be counting noses this Saturday at the Lansdowne Farmers Market. …
Food for Thought
Dear Reader, I’ll be missing all the fun at the LFM this Saturday, but the call of the wild …well, of a mountain house with hot shower, washer and dryer…beckons. Family reunions, I find, especially when that family is multi-layered and loud, are best done with a modicum of creature comforts. Also, with a good book or two for when …
Sweat Equity
They say last Saturday was hot hot HOT enough to melt the pavement, but that didn’t stop the world from turning or the LFM shoppers from making their appointed rounds of the vendor tents. It also didn’t stop the vendors. Tucquan Farms didn’t let a little thing like car trouble stop the earth from goin’ round…No way. The produce was …
I Found my Thrill…
At last! A food that didn’t begin life in Asia’s Fertile Crescent. Nope…the little round blueberry began right here in North America about 13,000 years ago. The early Native Americans called them “star berries”…next chance, before popping one into your mouth, just take a look at the shape of the calyx to see why. In times of famine, they were …
Hazy Crazy Days…with apologies to Nat King Cole
Now that the orange smog has gone wherever it went, and the deluge has wound down to a normal July downpour… No joke, for the last two weeks the skies have been anything BUT friendly. Foul air and flooded streets and basements have been just one dark cloud after another…but as the saying goes, “Behind every dark cloud…”. When was …