Are your friends playing ding-dong-cucumber? As in, ring the bell, dump the cukes and run? Do your pals sheepishly hand you armfuls, whispering “make pickles. Please?” I’ll just bet the big greens are rolling off the counter, filling your backseat, and hogging the fridge. I don’t even try growing cucumbers. My vegetable thumb is so [...]
Posted in recipes, Rock Chalk on May 15th, 2008
Cleo and I like to roam around Potter Lake, the most placid spot on the KU campus. Everyone wanders here: professors escaping students, students escaping classes, fisherman with small hopes and young people in love. Today I watch a scruffy pair climb the little limestone bridge and embrace, sure that in one hundred and forty-three [...]
