This is my first post and suddenly, my ideas have dried up....somewhat like my lawn. This summer has been so dry that the grass crackles beneath my feet - more proof that lawns are the scourge of the 21st century. Yet, I'm not sure how to break out of the cycle of weed, feed, mow, re-sod, weed, feed...you get the picture. I just can't imagine an acre of clover around my house. My hope resides in the new Ecoturf variety of seed and plan to start overseeding in the Fall - if I can just convince my husband that it's the way to go.
But I digress. Let me tell you why I wanted to start a blog. A lifelong career person and working mother, I was never interested in cooking, gardening, house decorating. Not me, a product of the sixties, who grew up reading Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem in Ms Magazine. However, now inexplicably I find that all I think about is food - not necessarily eating it - but reading about it, talking about it, watching the Food Network, trying rather pathetically to learn how to make good food. How I wish I'd been more interested when I was younger. I made this observation to my daughter the other day. Her response was to agree and say that if I had been, she would not have grown up so "impoverished"! She meant in terms of food, of course. Alright, I did sometimes give her hot dogs, but they were always chicken hot dogs.
When I'm not thinking about food, I'm thinking about my garden - although that is a secondary interest, since one can eat all year round, while gardening in most of Canada is not a lot of fun for six months of the year!
So, in the process of indulging these new interests, I have lots of thoughts/insights and no one with whom to share them. I can't imagine anyone will be interested in reading this, but I'll give it a whirl and see what happens. Stay tuned!
