The doorbell rang last night and who was standing there in the cold but our friend Lee holding a platter of cookies and a bundle of seed packets tied with a festive bow. But not just any seed packets. These were all from the Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants at Monticello. Thomas Jefferson’s gardens are suddenly [...]
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Nothing gets your motor running at the top of the morning like an 8 a.m. call from a friend saying, “I think your daughter has head lice.” That would be our friend Becky who had hosted daughter, 9, for a sleepover. She noticed head scratching and, since she had gone through an “all-consuming” infestation with [...]
The Washington Chorus was missing an organist for its annual candlelight Christmas performance at the Kennedy Center yesterday afternoon. They tried to fly one in from Canada, but he reportedly was held up at customs. An even more last-minute replacement from the D.C. area was snowed in. “So I will be trying to play the [...]
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We are engaging the concerns of a hungry planet--slowly--right here in our kitchen garden in the District of Columbia, about a mile from the White House.
What's in your turkey? We killed and butchered more than 80 birds on the farm of Mike and Michelle Klein in Prince George's County. Thankfully, Michelle did the gutting. Unfortunately, Mike bought his turkey chicks earlier than usual and they did not stop growing. Our prize for helping was a carcass that weighed nearly 40 pounds. It barely fit in the oven. Here, Mike is subjecting a slaughtered bird to the "magic fingers," a machine with a nubby, rotating barrel that removes most of the feathers. 
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