One Potato, Two Potato…

But man does not live by bread alone, so there is a part of the budget that is built in for treats, fluff, and whoopee!

Early Starts in the Garden

Getting the garden going is taking up more of my attention. Even if I have yet to set one tap for syrup in a maple. And even if February winds are howling outside the window. At the end of January, I set up the seed-starting trays with the domes. I also got out the plant …

Heaps

During grad school, I lived on a very constrained income determined by the small amount I could earn from jobs around the university and a small monthly stipend from my fellowship. As a result, for a long time afterward, I could not stomach peanut butter, wieners, or the strange Pennsylvania introduction to my diet called scrapple. When I ran out of money, I ran out. It was a prodigal way of life.