ARE YOU CALLING MOI NECK A CROOK?!

Ach: ye lingo de vegetables. So the hubby says we can harvest crooknecks from the garden. Smartly, I riposted, "What the *)&%$^ is a 'crookneck'?" So goes moi city slicker garden ... that I see is beginning to give city slickers a bad name. Ah well...here's the latest Relished W(h)ine List:

CITY SLICKER'S SPRING/SUMMER GARDEN HARVEST (to date)
5 artichokes
8 scallions
5 strawberries
5 yellow squash (duh, crooknecks)


PUBLICATIONS
ARRANGING THE BLAZE, poems by Chad Sweeney (highly-pleasurable read as the boy sings himself into a man)

TRUST, poems by Liz Waldner (each poem a luminous gem)

INTERVENING ABSENCE, poems by Carrie Olivia Adams

IDENTITY THEFT, poems by Catherine Daly

HAVE A GOOD ONE, poems by Anselm Berrigan

TRUE CRIME, poems by Donna de la Perriere

FORT DAD, poems by Stephen Paul Miller

BALLISTICS, poems by Billy Collins (enjoyable food-wine)

IN SEARCH OF SMALL GODS, poems by Jim Harrison (checked this out, along with the Billy Collins, from the local library as they'd just acquired them and I wanted to prove there is demand for poetry books)

AS A FRIEND, novel by Forrest Gander

THE WINTER SUN: NOTES ON A VOCATION, poetry/memoir by Fanny Howe

ANIMALS MAKE US HUMAN: CREATING THE BEST LIFE FOR ANIMALS, psychology by Temple Grandin

SO MUCH TO BE DONE: WOMEN SETTLERS ON THE MINING AND RANCHING FRONTIER, history/memoir anthology Edited by Ruth B. Moynihan, Susan Armitage and Christiane Fischer Dichamp

THE SURVIVOR'S CLUB, novel by Lisa Gardner

THE BODIES LEFT BEHIND, novel by Jeffrey Deaver

CONSPIRACY IN DEATH, novel by J.D. Robb

PROMISES IN DEATH, novel by J.D. Robb

DARK HARVEST, novel by Karen Harper

HEARTSICK, novel by Chelsea Cain

SWEETHEART, novel by Chelsea Cain


WINES
1973 Heitz Martha's Vineyard Cabernet (Aw Yeah! 1974 won the Paris Tasting but this is the better year....astonished and gratified it's survived to now)
2000 William Lefevre Les Clos chablis
1989 Ch Pichon Lalande
1993 Togni (corked)
2004 3Rings Shiraz Barossa Valley
1992 Ravenswood Pickberry
2006 Napa Cellars Zinfandel NV
1986 Ch. Pichon Lalande
1995 Pesquera Alenza
2001 Artazuri (Navarrs)
2001 Trimbach Cuvee Frederic Emile
1998 Wild Duck Creek Estate Springflat shiraz