Meanwhile, back at Noni Doni’s little sweatshop workshop, we bring you another holiday gift project for kids: Forced bulbs that will grow into beautiful spring flowers inside your home. This is probably one of...
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Gird your loins, dear ones. The holidays are officially upon us. Prepare yourself for Facebook’s floodgates to open wide and release a tidal wave of idyllic photos and descriptions of the most well-adjusted, intact,...
Doni’s note: This is a 2015 Thanksgiving encore column with some of my favorite recipes. Different year, but we’re doing another Thanksgiving potluck, which makes me very happy. I’m bringing gravy, the cranberry relish...
Quick Reference Suitable for: hiking, biking, no motorized vehicles, no horses. Trail 58 is mostly single track, and Middle Creek Trail is paved. Amenities: limited parking areas at both trailheads, no drinking water or...
Quick Reference Suitable for: hiking, biking, horseback riding, no motorized vehicles; mostly single track Amenities: at Oak Knoll Trailhead ample parking (including horse trailers), pit toilet, no water Dogs: under owner’s control Distance: (approximate)...
I see foxtails. Everywhere. Hordeum murinum or “Hare Barley,” a non-native invader from Spain, grows in healthy, thick patches along the trails and in open spaces where people walk their dogs. What appears to...
Editor’s note: this is a best-of A News Cafe column originally published on November 22, 2008. Thanksgiving is full of family traditions, food memories, and of course hours of fantastic kitchen fun for the...
Doni’s note: This is a Thanksgiving encore column with some of my favorite recipes. Different year, but we’re doing another Thanksgiving potluck, which makes me very happy. I’m bringing gravy, the cranberry relish and...
Here I am, talking about food again. I’ve talked before about how we learn to make whatever it is we eat. In this piece, I’d like to talk about what we choose to eat,...
It was 1994 the first time my kids and I went camping at Patrick’s Point State Park in Trinidad. It was a significant year. I’d graduated from college – 20 years after high school...
