by Kelli Donley | Jun 27, 2014 | Arizona, Heirloom Hacienda
Prickly pear ripening — jam to be made in August; more ball band cotton washcloths on the sticks; peanut butter cookies for a colleague’s birthday; the last of the tomatoes — it was a great season; Mason jars full of flowers around the house, because...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 18, 2014 | Arizona, Heirloom Hacienda
Blair mentioned the other day how buttery the light can be in Arizona this time of year. It is easy to feel drunk — dizzy even — on the full assault of brightness and heat. But the afternoons are buttery. When it is hot and dry enough, the clouds become...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 9, 2014 | Arizona, Domestic Art, Flora and Fauna, Heirloom Hacienda
We are eating a lot of: walnut pesto with basil from the garden*, roasted tomatoes with garlic, olive oil and lavender sea salt, rotisserie chickens — which are later transformed into the liquid gold of homemade stock. Sadly, this is the last week for the...
by Kelli Donley | Jun 7, 2014 | Heirloom Hacienda
I’ve been sorting through my things during the last few months, trying to figure out what to keep, display, and give away. Moving back into this house has come with a familiarity and warmth I wasn’t expecting. It feels like home — as I suppose it...
by Kelli Donley | May 29, 2014 | Arizona, Flora and Fauna, Heirloom Hacienda
More garden porn. The tomatoes are coming in by the handful these days. I am watering twice a day, now that it is consistently hotter than 100. I keep bringing in baggies of tomatoes and basil to coworkers; I swear this is the perfume of summer, warm tomatoes and...
by Kelli Donley | May 28, 2014 | Community, Heirloom Hacienda
This is Fozzie Z. Bear. He is staying with us for the week while his parents travel to visit family on the east coast. Fozzie could be Nelson’s smaller, scrappier cousin. He is a sweetheart, even if he refuses to sleep through the night, instead opting to do...
