When Handan asked me to build two planters to put between the garage doors, I jumped on the idea. Finally, I could build something again! Look, don't get me wrong - mailbox makeovers, lamp post makeovers, pantry makeovers - yeah, they're all well and good, but Jeezum Crow, I wanted to make, not makeover!…
Midsummer Vegetable Garden 2017
It always happened without warning. Sometimes it progressed slowly, so I was lulled for a time into thinking, maybe it's not really happening. Maybe it's just me. Sometimes it happened swiftly, overnight, and there was no doubt in my mind that something had gone terribly wrong. It was always something different, something new. And it…
Lamp Post Makeover
Scene: The Navage Patch front yard, two summers ago. A young youngish middle-aged man kneels before a slanted white lamp post, trowel in one hand, packet of dried bulbs in the other. The package reads, "Lily of the Valley," but for all the middle-aged man understands from bulbs, it might as well read, "Valley of the…
A Solo Motorcycle Ride Across America – Part 6
CONTINUED FROM>> Day 7 Continued Sunday, June 10, 2001 Somewhere in eastern Kansas I was in high spirits after my fleeting encounter with the Lone Rider. Kansas's beauty revealed itself to me, then. Where before I saw flat and featureless plains, I now saw the sprawling Heartland reaching out in all directions to meet the…
The Navages’ Universal Studios & Disney Holiday
In a cave known as Leang Tempuseng in a remote region of Indonesia there is a crude painting of a babirusa, or deer-pig, that is estimated to be 39,900 years old. In Chauvet Cave in France, images of now-extinct animals fill the walls and are thought to be about 30,000 years old. In Kakado,…
Pantry Makeover
On a hot and humid August Saturday last summer, I decided to clean our shed. As Barish and I were spilling its contents onto the lawn, Handan came running up with a camera and started to document the event. She later insisted I write a post about it. I fought her on that idea. Who…
Ashure (Noah’s Pudding) – The Oldest Dessert in the World
Scene: The turbulent waters of planet Earth after a violent storm. A large wooden ship cuts through the choppy seas, and a lone man stands lookout. He is tired of the endless sea, and sick of his stinking robes. Seven months have passed since he set sail, and he has yet to see a speck…
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