Pesto sunburst bread

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1. A relaxing day
2. Met Rhiannon's teacher
3. Stacey's delicious charred corn salad
4. AC -- it's so humid here!!

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Lammas

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Sunburst pull-apart bread for Lammas

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AUGUST

Summer sings its long song, and all the notes are green.
But there's a click, somewhere in the middle
of the month, as we reach the turning point, the apex,
a Ferris wheel, cars tipping and tilting over the top
and we see September up ahead, school and schedules
returning.  And there's the first night you step outside
and hear the katydids arguing, six more weeks
to frost, and you know you can make it through to fall.
Dark now at eight, nights finally cooling off for sleep.
no more twisting in damp sheets, hearing mosquitoes'
thirsty whines.  Lakes of chicory and Queen Anne's Lace
mirror the sky's high cirrus.  Evenings grow chilly, 
time for old sweaters and sweatpants, lying in the hammock
squinting to read in the quick-coming dusk.
A few fireflies punctuate the night's black text,
and the moonlight is so thick, you could swim in it
until you reach the other side.

~ Barbara Crooker ~

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1.  New living room furniture ordered -- for only the second time ever in my whole life!
2.  Wonderful soaking rain
3.  Dark grain bread with goat cheese and pinot noir

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1. A wonderfully mysterious foggy morning
2. Goldfinches feasting on the sunflowers in the yard
3. New calendar pages -- they both have sunflowers! :)