merrill stubbs – Orangette https://orangette.net Wed, 16 Dec 2015 07:40:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 November 6 https://orangette.net/2015/11/november-6/ https://orangette.net/2015/11/november-6/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2015 23:22:00 +0000 This one goes out to my friend Natalie. One night early last month, she and hers were over for dinner, and I made an applesauce cake with caramel glaze for dessert. As they left, she asked about the recipe, and she’s been patiently waiting for me to post it ever since. In the intervening weeks, our kitchen faucet sprung a leak – a leak that must have actually sprung a month or two before that, because by the time we noticed it, it had thoroughly saturated all the wooden surfaces below and around it, making them buckle and curl like waves on an ocean, a special ocean that smells like rot. We called Natalie and Michael, because they are handy…

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