Tonight’s haul, our first harvest: 145 pounds of organically-grown heirloom tomatoes. And there ate LOTS more on the vine. I’m skeert.

Thanks for your patience while I enjoyed some time off from blogging to enjoy The Most Beautiful Place in America with my most beautiful wife. If you you checked in at Eclectablog through last Tuesday, you probably saw some photos from our trip to the Sleeping Bear Dunes and the Leelanau Peninsula in “the pinky” of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. I’ll […]

This is our home, smack dab in the middle of The Most Beautiful Place in America for the next five days. Bliss: found and followed.

Remember my post about the 12-inch wide, 10-inch tall mushroom in my backyard? It had babies: This is known as a fairy ring. The original shroom threw out a bunch of spores around itself. It’s long gone but the spores have taken off. Too bad we’ll be gone for a few days while they are at their peak. Our housesitter […]

This is more funny than you realize. My niece-in-law is the only kid I know that could pull off that look better. And she totally would.

So, last Thursday, I went out into my backyard and found this handsome specimen. Hey, big fella. Come here often? The next day, it had gotten even bigger but we left for the weekend around lunchtime and didn’t get to see what would happen. When we got home Sunday evening, we found this: 11½ inches across! 10 inches high! Day-um… […]

Even a blind dog finds a deer femur once in awhile. Kona. Diabetic. Blind. Mostly deaf. My inspiration. She found this bone on our walk yesterday. When she got home with it, she completely buried it by digging a hole, putting the bone in it and then covering it back up using her nose. I’m just sayin’…

It’s Miller Martini Time… Also, had an unsuccessful trip hunting for morel mushrooms. Probably a tad too early for that. However, an unsuccessful morel hunt is also called “a walk in the woods”. A that’s never a bad thing. I’m just sayin’…

We had a couple of really nice, sunny days last weekend and the president of the Eclectablog Fan Club enjoyed it, too. Like us, she’s been waiting, not so patiently, for the warm weather to finally arrive. Here she is, ladies and gentlemen: Hara! Her expression says it all, don’tchya think? (Photo by my lovely wife with her iPhone.) I’m […]

Something happened to us this past month that has me fuming, partly at myself. In March of 2010, we got a new water heater, replacing one that had to have been pushing 50 years old. All told, the experience cost about $750, but it was time, so we pulled the trigger. Late last fall, our water started smelling really foul, […]

EclectaLadies and EclectaGentlemen! Announcing our latest project: THE SAVAGE FEAST! As most of you probably know from reading Eclectablog, I am married to one of the most talented photographers in the country, Anne Savage. You also probably know that the two of us have a passion for food. Gardening. Local foods. Organic foods. Cooking. Food preservation. It’s all a major […]