[lit-ideas] Re: Nubby and the Hot One

All attempts to grow berries here have failed. My chief blueberry regret is passing up the opportunity to buy, at a farmer's market, large mature bushes which someone had pulled out of the ground to make way for housing or a new sewage plant or something. I did not buy them because I thought I could grow small plants into big ones. Ha! Nowadays I buy the best and biggest roots and give them autumn and winter to work themselves into a defensive stance that can survive our clay's cruelest tests.
Suddenly yesterday the clay hardened and everything around dried out. Of course it didn't happen exactly that way but this was my impression. Julia and her friend wanted to make smores over a fire and so I raided our wood pile and kindling stash. Each piece I lifted was much lighter than I remembered, and when I set a match to the pyramid I'd constructed, there was little smoke and much fire. Alert and noting what the wind was doing, I kept the hose close to hand. Today's forecast is for a very hot day, reaching towards a hundred degrees. I was up very, very early and took time to enjoy the flowers in the front garden, which are superb this year. Because I have a green or Scottish watering ethic--I water only enough to keep plants alive and tough-- everything will soon dry out. The exception this year will be tomatoes, of which I am expecting much.
A piece in the Oregonian's ad supplement yesterday described Vino Paradiso, a restaurant belonging to Timothy Nishimoto, of Pink Martini. There is to be art in it. Next month the works will be by "graphic artist Nubby Twiglet." Naturally she has a website, http:// www.nubbytwiglet.com/ which tells you her dad took her out for ice cream. An inside page gives you a history of the name, but no indication of where she is training. Could it be that one day I will teach history to Nubby? 
http://nubbytwiglet.com/blog/?p=103
Nope.  Sounds like we, or someone a bit like us, may have rejected her.
http://nubbytwiglet.com/blog/?p=179

Oh well.  Carry on, keeping cool all the while.

David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon

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