Ann Patchett, on writing:

I craft everything in the beginning.

I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

- Ann Patchett. 

Recommended reading – Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre (2010)

 

Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

by Brett L. Markham.

 

ISBN-10: 1602399840
ISBN-13: 978-1602399846
 
Description:
 

Here is a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just one quarter acre – and earn $10,000 in cash annually. This is not back-to-the-land utopianism, but a tested and pragmatic method that can be applied in small lots in rural, suburban, and even urban areas. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, Brett Markham’s advice will teach you what you need to know:

• Saving, buying, starting, and selecting seeds.
• Maintaining and improving soil.
• Preventing and eradicating pests and diseases.
• Compost, crop rotation, and timing.
• Using organic methods.
• Garden planning to meet dietary requirements.
• Raising poultry.
• Raising and pruning fruits and nuts.
• Canning, freezing, and dehydrating.
• Selling your excess and produce for top dollar.
• And more!

More than just a how-to guide for self-sufficiency, Mini Farming teaches you the underlying principles of mini farming so you will have the knowledge to make you own unique applications. Materials, tools, and techniques are detailed with over a hundred photographs, tables, diagrams, and illustrations.

Born on this day – Ellinor Vanderveer:

Ellinor Vanderveer

Actress

August 5, 1887 – May 27, 1976

Credits:

A Bedtime Story (1933); A Damsel in Distress (1937); A Family Affair (1937); A Night at the Opera (1935); A Notorious Affair (1930); A Pair of Tights (1929); A Song for Miss Julie (1945); A Song to Remember (1945); A Successful Calamity (1932); All the King's Men (1949); All This, and Heaven Too (1940); Aloha (1931); An Innocent Affair (1948); Annie Get Your Gun (1950); Apples to You! (1934); Arsène Lupin (1932); Artist's Muddles (1933); B.F.'s Daughter (1948); Baggage Buster (1941); Balalaika (1939); Bare Knees (1928); Behold My Wife! (1934); Belle Le Grand (1951); Belle of the Nineties (1934); Bolero (1934); Born to Be Bad (1950); Broadminded (1931); Bromo and Juliet (1926); Call Her Savage (1932); Caravan (1934); Casablanca (1942); Christmas Holiday (1944); Confession (1937); Crossroads (1942); Dad's Choice (1928); Deception (1946); Devil's Lottery (1932); Diplomacy (1926); Don Q Son of Zorro (1925); Down Argentine Way (1940); Downstairs (1932); Employees' Entrance (1933); Escape (1940); Escape Me Never (1947); Expensive Kisses (1930); Extravagance (1930); Fast Life (1932); Find the King (1927); Finishing School (1934); First Love (1939); Flesh and the Devil (1926); Flying with Music (1942); Four Star Playhouse (1952); Frankenstein (1931); From Soup to Nuts (1928); Gallant Journey (1946); Gentleman Joe Palooka (1946); Gigolettes of Paris (1933); Girl Shock (1930); Girls' Dormitory (1936); Going Bye-Bye! (1934); Going Wild (1930); Golden Harvest (1933); He Who Gets Slapped (1924); Hellzapoppin' (1941); Her Sister from Paris (1925); Hey Moe, Hey Dad! (2015); High Hats and Low Brows (1932); High Pressure (1932); His Silent Racket (1933); Holiday (1930); Hotel Continental (1932); Huye, faldas (1930); I Was an Adventuress (1940); I'll Take Vanilla (1934); Into Her Kingdom (1926); Is Everybody Happy? (1928); Jazz Heaven (1929); Journal of a Crime (1934); Judge Hardy's Children (1938); Kiki (1926); Kiss Me Again (1931); Lady of the Night (1925); Lady Windermere's Fan (1925); Larceny, Inc (1942); Let 'em Have It (1935); Lili (1953); Loco Boy Makes Good (1942); Looking for Sally (1925); Lost in a Harem (1944); Love Comes Along (1930); Love Me Tonight (1932); Luncheon at Twelve (1933); Madame Bovary (1949); Madame Q (1929); Maisie Gets Her Man (1942); Man of Iron (1935); Manhattan Monkey Business (1935); Married Flirts (1924); Maude Muller (1928); Men of Chance (1931); Mister Cinderella (1936); Mixed Nuts (1934); Monte Cristo / Bardelys the Magnificent (1926); Moonlight Murder (1936); Movie Crazy (1932); Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936); Mr. Lucky (1943); My Love Came Back (1940); Never the Twain Shall Meet (1931); Ninotchka (1939); No Census, No Feeling (1940); No Publicity (1927); No Time for Comedy (1940); Now We'll Tell One (1932); Okay Toots! (1935); Pack Up Your Troubles (1932); Party Girl (1930); Passion Flower (1930); Paths to Paradise (1925); Pest Control (1950); Platinum Blonde (1931); Pleasure (1931); Politiquerías (1931); Pop Goes the Easel (1935); Private Detective 62 (1933); Raffles (1939); Rascal Dazzle (1981); Rasputin and the Empress (1932); Remarks on Marx (2004); Remote Control (1930); Reunion in Vienna (1933); Rope of Sand (1949); Rumba (1935); Sally in Our Alley (1927); Sally of the Subway (1932); Scarface (1932); Scarlet Dawn (1932); Search for Beauty (1934); Secrets of the French Police (1932); Seeing the World / The Ol' Gray Hoss (1928); Seven Footprints to Satan (1929); Seven Sinners (1940); She Done Him Wrong (1933); Shoot the Works (1934); Sinners in the Sun (1932); Skinner's Dress Suit (1926); Skip the Maloo! (1931); Skylark (1941); Slightly Static (1935); So You Want to Throw a Party (1950); Son of India (1931); Soup and Fish (1934); South Sea Sinner (1950); Spring Fever (1927); Stella Dallas (1925); Stepping Sisters (1932); Street Girl (1929); Street of Women (1932); Sunny (1930); Svengali (1931); Synthetic Sin (1929); Tales of Manhattan (1942); Taxi Barons (1933); The Band Wagon (1953); The Battle of the Century (1927); The Beast with Five Fingers (1946); The Bishop's Wife (1947); The Caddy (1953); The Common Law (1931); The Cowboy Quarterback (1939); The Devil with Hitler (1942); The Dolly Sisters (1945); The Duchess of Buffalo (1926); The Eagle and the Hawk (1933); The Eddie Cantor Story (1953); The Exile (1947); The Feminine Touch (1941); The Girl Downstairs (1938); The Girl in the Pullman (1927); The Girl Said No (1930); The Golden Blade (1953); The Great Garrick (1937); The Great Waltz (1938); The Great Ziegfeld (1936); The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932); The Hoose-Gow (1929); The Impatient Maiden (1932); The Irish in Us (1935); The Iron Mask (1929); The Jolson Story (1946); The Kid from Brooklyn (1946); The King's Vacation (1933); The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1937); The Laurel and Hardy Show (1986); The Little Rascals (1955); The Lost Moment (1947); The Love Charm (1928); The Man on the Rock (1938); The Merry Widow (1925); The Mississippi Gambler (1953); The Mystery Train (1931); The Office Wife (1930); The Old Maid (1939); The Other Woman's Story (1925); The Phantom of Paris (1931); The Phantom of the Opera (1925); The Philadelphia Story (1940); The Princess Comes Across (1936); The Rage of Paris (1938); The Red Kimono (1926); The Rich Are Always with Us (1932); The Robe (1953); The Second 100 Years (1927); The Sky Hawk (1929); The Smart Set (1928); The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939); The Strange Door (1951); The Toast of New Orleans (1950); The Unholy Night (1929); The Way of All Pants (1927); The Woman Between (1931); Three Little Pigskins / Slippery Silks (1936); 'Til We Meet Again (1940); Times Square Lady (1935); Topper Takes a Trip (1938); Two Against the World (1932); Two Sisters from Boston (1946); Vagabond Lady (1935); Washee Ironee (1934); Watch on the Rhine (1943); Way Out West (1930); What a Bozo! (1931); When Comedy Was King (1960); When G-Men Step In (1938); Whom the Gods Destroy (1934); Wuthering Heights (1939); Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942); Yolanda and the Thief (1945); You Never Know Women (1926); You Were Never Lovelier (1942).

Born on this day – Conrad Aiken:

Conrad Aiken

Writer

August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973

Credits:

Books:

A Heart for the Gods of Mexico (1939); A Reviewer's ABC (1958); American Fantastic Tales (2009); Among the Lost People (1934); Black Water 2 (1990); Blue Voyage (1927); Bring! Bring! (1935); Cats and Bats and Things with Wings / poems (1965); Charnel Rose, Senlin / poems (1982); Collected Criticism (1968); Collected Poems / poems (1953); Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken (1982); Costumes by Eros (1928); Earth Triumphant / poems (1914); Gehenna (1930); Great Circle (1933); Jig of Forslin (1916); John Deth, A Metaphysical Legend / poems (1930); King Coffin (1935); Mind at Bay (1969); Morning Song of Lord Zero / poems (1963); Perchance to Dream (1973); Preludes (1966); Reading I've Liked (1946); Scepticisms (1919); Selected Poems / poems (1930); Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1934); Skylight One / poems (1949); Spectral Realms No. 15 (2021); The Clerk's Journal / poems (1971); The Collected Novels of Conrad Aiken (1964); The Collected Stories of Conrad Aiken (1960); The Conversation (1940); The Masque of the Red Death (1964); The Selected Letters of Conrad Aiken (1978); The Short Stories of Conrad Aiken (1960); Thee (1967); Tom, Sue and the Clock (1966); Ushant (1952); Vampires, Wine and Roses (1997); White Fire (1991); Who's Zoo (1977).

Movies and television:

Great Ghost Tales (1961); ITV Play of the Week (1959); Kraft Theatre / The Philco Television Playhouse (1951); Mr. Arcularis (1967); Night Gallery / Segment: Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1971); Shoestring Theatre (1962); Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1964); Startime (1960); Studio One (1953–1956).

Born on this day – Valentine Tessier:

Valentine Tessier

Actress

August 5, 1892 – August 11, 1981

Credits:

Abus de confiance (1937); Archives du XXème siècle (1974–1977); Children of Love (1953); Club de femmes (1936); Contes pour le petit écran (1958–1959); Des quintuplés au pensionnat (1953); Désarroi (1947); Églantine (1972); Élisa (1957); French Cancan (1955); Grilles closes (1979); Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades (1935); Justice Is Done (1950); La haine de Fatimeh (1912); La rivale (1974); Le fils prodigue (1912); Le lit à colonnes (1942); L'embuscade (1941); L'idiot (1968); Lifesize (1974); Lucrèce Borgia (1953); Madame Bovary (1934); Maddalena (1954); Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959); Ménilmontant (1936); Nero and Britannicus (1912); Nez de cuir (1952); Procès au Vatican (1952); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956); The Italian Straw Hat (1928); The Phantom Wagon (1939); The Snow Was Black (1954); The Spahi's Fiancée (1912); The Temptress (1951); The Vengeance of the Kabyle (1912).

Born on this day – John Huston:

 

John Huston

Actor

Director

Writer

Artist

August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987

Born on this day – Ann Morriss:

 

Ann Morriss

Actress

August 5, 1919 – June 30, 1994

Credits:

And One Was Beautiful (1940); Blossoms in the Dust (1941); Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940); But Not for Me (1959); Code 3 (1957); Colt .45 (1959); Designing Woman (1957); Gang Busters (1952); Guns Don't Argue! (1957); Highway Patrol (1958); Hollywood: Style Center of the World (1940); Honolulu (1939); Hullabaloo (1940); I Led 3 Lives (1956); I'll Wait for You (1941); Jack Pot (1940); Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941); Lock Up (1960); One Foot in Hell (1960); Passport to Danger (1954); Public Defender (1954–1955); Pushover (1954); Set 'em Up (1939); Slander (1956); Society Lawyer (1939); Spring Madness (1938); Studio 57 (1958); The Ann Sothern Show (1959); The Box Brothers (1956); The Chaser (1938); The Donna Reed Show (1959–1960); The Ghost Comes Home (1940); The Great American Pastime (1956); The Hardys Ride High (1939); The High Cost of Loving (1958); The Opposite Sex (1956); The Private War of Major Benson (1955); The Proud and Profane (1956); The Thin Man (1958); The Women (1939); Think First (1939); Third Finger, Left Hand (1940); Whirlybirds (1958); Within the Law (1939).