{"id":3254,"date":"2012-05-04T16:47:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2014-11-14T11:13:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T16:13:28","slug":"a-poem-and-blueberry-blossoms-for-a-rainy-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/2012\/05\/a-poem-and-blueberry-blossoms-for-a-rainy-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem and Blueberry Blossoms for a Rainy Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Looking Out<\/strong><\/h1>\n

 <\/p>\n

Rain today is grace
\n<\/strong>out my window,
\n<\/span><\/strong>here inside
\n<\/strong><\/strong>a pool of warm soft
\n<\/strong><\/strong>prayer for a day
\n<\/strong><\/strong>gained like the gift
\n<\/strong><\/strong>of a blue hen\u2019s egg
\n<\/strong><\/strong>in the barn\u2019s new hay;
\n<\/strong><\/strong>a simple wool sweater
\n<\/strong><\/strong>cocoon of words and
\n<\/strong><\/strong>songs and coffee all
\n<\/strong><\/strong>morning and into
\n<\/strong><\/strong>afternoon\u2019s breaking
\n<\/strong><\/strong>clouds, pushed on
\n<\/strong><\/strong>by a front insistent
\n<\/strong><\/strong>on sunshine for the
\n<\/strong><\/strong>sweet, long-shadow
\n<\/strong><\/strong>close of day.
\n<\/strong><\/strong>–\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 SM, April 29<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong><\/strong>Rifling through a drawer this week I found a poem I\u2019d written in April\u2014April of 2008, not long after coming to the Vineyard. But it felt familiar and comforting and perfect for this April (well, May now) and this rainy week. So I share it with you. And I\u2019m sharing this beautiful picture of blueberry blossoms in our garden, because they fill me with hope and excitement. And because once again I don\u2019t have a new veggie recipe I can offer you this week. Ironically, it\u2019s not for not cooking. It\u2019s just that I\u2019m beholden not to publish the recipes.<\/p>\n

I feel blessed with all the good work I have on my plate right now\u2014writing, cooking, creating\u2014but like Shylock\u2019s pound of flesh, it\u2019s all spoken for. I can\u2019t share recipes or writing with you that\u2019s bound for publication somewhere else down the road. I bet a lot of cookbook author-bloggers have this dilemma\u2014you can be developing new recipes all day and not be able to share even a small bite with your blog readers. So it goes.<\/p>\n

Since I have blueberries on the mind (not only am I excited about having our own bushes this year, but I\u2019ve been cooking with blueberries this week, too. Yes, out of season\u2014another quirk of the recipe development life), I\u2019ll share a simple and delicious recipe for a crisp over on the Edible Vineyard<\/em><\/a> site, just in case you can\u2019t wait for summer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And for those of you wondering how the baby chicks are doing, I share these pictures of Bambi, Libby, and Farmer. Bambi is chick no. 49 and has been living inside the house in a box on my desk under a lamp since the day after the chicks arrived (she was tiny and hadn\u2019t figured out the food-and-water routine). I\u2019m afraid chick no. 50 died rather suddenly last Saturday afternoon. We had high hopes for her since we\u2019d managed to bring Bambi back from the brink with plenty of water and food, but this little gal was already on her way out when we took her out of the brooder. Libby was here and we shared that sad and inevitable aspect of farm life together. \"\"<\/a>Fortunately, the other 48 are zipping around the brooder, growing their wing feathers already and eating and drinking (and napping) like crazy.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we are using this time with Bambi (short for bambino<\/em>) to teach Farmer about chickens\u2014a couple times a day we take Bambi out to hold her and let Farmer sniff her. He gives her a kiss (a big slurping lick, which, yes, could be interpreted many different ways) and then moves along. Bambi seems nonplussed and hasn\u2019t tried her beak out on him yet.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>There\u2019s all kinds of other stuff happening on the farmette; for instance, we now have a tractor. And it was free. I am not kidding\u2014free (and it works). But that\u2019s a whole \u2018nother story. With the work Roy\u2019s already done with it\u2014and the 60 animals\u2014it just seems like we blinked and the farmette grew up and became a real farm overnight. It must be meant to be, I guess. For now it\u2019s back to desk work for me on this grey day, and may we all wake up tomorrow to sunshine and blueberry blossoms and little \u201ccheep cheep\u201d noises coming from a cardboard box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Looking Out   Rain today is grace out my window, here inside a pool of warm soft prayer for a day gained like the gift of a blue hen\u2019s egg in the barn\u2019s new hay; a simple wool sweater cocoon of words and songs and coffee all morning and into afternoon\u2019s breaking clouds, pushed on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[103,11,45,1],"tags":[108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3254"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6391,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3254\/revisions\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sixburnersue.com\/cooking-fresh-eating-green\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}