Most of us have heard the cliche “You can’t get blood from a turnip.” The adage is usually quoted to remark on some state of financial duress or when we’ve been asked for something we deem as far beyond our means to provide. A lot of us see the precept as inarguable. I, however, do [...]
Lately I’ve often found myself dwelling on seasons and the expected versus unexpected timing of events in life. It’s important to allow moments to fully bloom, large or small, long or brief, giving them the individual consideration and respect they deserve. My oldest daughter recently moved into a great new apartment in a neighboring state. [...]
We Frugal Poets normally divide our blogging duties such that one of us posts a personal recipe and poem each week. Curtis graciously offered to write for two consecutive weeks when I needed to help one of my daughters move last weekend. I certainly appreciate his willingness to help me out but…talk about a mouse [...]
When my daddy bought a few acres of land adjoining his property a few years back, you’d have thought he’d finalized The Louisiana Purchase for all the plans we started hatching. Aside from an idea to expand our existing vegetable garden, we now had ample room for several varieties of fruit trees, berry brambles, a [...]
Waste Nothing Bones. They make me nostalgic. Strange? Probably. But they remind me of times when I was forced to be more frugal and resourceful. When there was no money for cable television, there was a wealth of conversation or time for reading, solitary contemplation and discovery. When gasoline expenses soared and I opted to [...]
If you’re fortunate enough to have an apple tree then you know that its bounty usually ripens pretty much all at once. Sure, you might have to pick the fruit in a few successive rounds, but one can hardly eat so many apples before they begin to soften and rot. Now imagine that you are [...]
Only after my daughters reached a certain culinary maturity could I freely use onions in cooking. In their youth I was forced to employ covert operations to include them – a mince so fine Julia Child would have rhapsodized my skill with a chef’s knife, the inclusion of dehydrated onions which cooked to mush and [...]
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