Author: Maggie

30 Days of Fall – 1

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I’m lacking time and inspiration to blog (again… it’s that time of the year) so I thought I’d start a new photo project: 30 Days of Fall. Not necessarily 30 days in a row though, I want to be able to skip a day or two when I need to and there may be some other things I’d like to talk about during that period. 

Yarn Along

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:: knitting: it’s all about the process isn’t it? I’m getting there, but it’s just a few stitches at a time… Still working on that cowl.

:: reading: not very highclass maybe, but I can always claim it’s research 😉 I’m rereading the Bridal Quartet by Nora Roberts and loving it.

:: writing: almost finished the proofreading for my latest book, and almost done writing that concept story too. Than there is one more big deadline to catch. Some very exciting new possibilities are opening up for me, but I can’t say anything about that yet.
So I’m very, very busy writing these days. It’s like writing is my job… Isn’t that great?

Endives

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I don’t like endives. 
That’s an understatement. It’s actually one of the very few vegetables I really don’t want to eat. But we do, since the rest of our little family does like it.
When I started my little vegetable garden it was rather late in season. So I did a bit of research to find out which vegetables still could be sown. Spinach, lettuce, corn, carrots, kale and… endives. I could have ignored that last one, but that would have been childish, I thought. And I doubted this very first try at sowing and growing would succeed, so I happily added a row of my least favorite vegetable.
The seed was good, the weather was great (for growing veggies that is), the soil was just right. Or something like that, I don’t know. I just know it grew very, very well.
So now we eat endives twice a week. At least. There’s a lot of it and I don’t want to waste good home-grown food. We eat it raw, cooked or stir-fried. With potatoes, rice of pasta. 
I’m getting used to it. And I love that I really grew it myself, that I can go out to the garden and harvest veggies for diner, that I have been able to do that for months now and all that from one little bag of seed.
But I still don’t like endives. And that’s an understatement. 😉