May « 2009 « A Small Town Girl's Guide

Vegetarian Food in Cattle Farming Country

After years of eating meat and potatoes at home in Missouri (my grandpa raised cattle during the early part of my life), I went off to college and promptly began experimenting with various forms of vegetarianism (I’m such a bad girl, I know – running a way from home to try tofu).
Though I’m no longer [...]

Things are growing in my garden!

I sat on the porch at dusk, drinking a Sam Adams. Not one to stay still for long, I wandered into the garden to put the trellis I bought yesterday in with my berry bushes.
Much to my delight, there are already green peppers the size of my thumbs and tomatoes the size of golf balls. [...]

Memorial Day

It’s easy to forget why we have days off. Memorial Day is an ironic day’s reason to forget, but still, there were headstones in the cemeteries we visited today on which no flowers lay. Were these people forgotten? Are their families no longer living? Are they simply too far away to honor the dead?

I wanted [...]

Small Town Recyling

When I moved back to Missouri three months ago, it was a shock to my system to not sort my trash for recyling at home. In the last three cities I’ve called home, recycling was mandatory, so I’m excited to see that this small town now has five large recyling bins conveniently located in the [...]

Farmington Farmers Market

I’m a big fan of local produce and homemade foods, so I was excited when the Farmington Farmers Market opened this spring. The market has grown over the past few years, and this spring, there are 10-12 vendors who regularly come out to sell plants, eggs, jellies, soaps, and more.
Always outgoing, and a curious girl [...]

Gardens

Now that I’m back in Missouri, where there’s no shortage of land to plant on, I’ve been working with my parents to plant a garden.
Growing up, we grew strawberries, tomatos, cherry tomatos, cucumbers, and a few green peppers. This year we planted all but the strawberries, as well as crooken neck and zuchinni squash, blueberries, [...]

Soulard, St. Louis

I spent most of my day yesterday in Soulard, a neighborhood just east of I-55 and south of downtown, St. Louis. The area reminds me of a mix between Brooklyn and New Orleans, with red brick, two- and three-story rowhouses along red brick sidewalks.
Black rod-iron railings line the second and third floor balconies of buildings, [...]

WordPress's 100 Growing Blogs List Recognition

Today my blog hit two milestones.
1. I doubled my to-date highest number of hits per day.
2. I was recognized in WordPress’s May 10 list of Top 100 Growing Blogs. I was number 52.
Needless to say, this makes me really excited.
On the dark side, we’re still without power or water at our house. We [...]

Missouri Storms

I would sit in my window seat as a little girl, lights off and window cracked, watching the lightning storms and smellling the rain. Storms in Missouri blow through hard and fast.
It sounds as if God and his angels are hitting strike after strike in the bowling alley in the sky, and the lighting lights [...]

Sand Creek Vineyard

I spent my cool, drizzly Sunday afternoon at Sand Creek Vineyard with an old friend. The building, which sits at the end of a long gravel driveway, deep in the woods, somehow manages a fine balance between down to earth and elegant.
When we arrived, we were the only two patrons in the joint, and we [...]

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