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Green Tomato Pickle Recipe Card

December 1, 2024

This is the Family Recipe for “Green Tomato Pickle”, which is mostly used as a topping for a pot of beans. Sweet, vinegary, and a bit of cloves.

I went through some old files, and found the oldest family reference to this recipe, from Great-Grandma Box herself, and it’s dated 1917.

Handwritten family recipe card for Green Tomato Pickle from 1917, showing Great-Grandma Box’s recipe with ingredients and instructions in vintage handwriting

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Roby the Costerbot

October 6, 2024

This is from 2010. We were building little Adruino robots using CD platters as a platform. Sarah was fascinated.

Young Sarah Orner sitting next to Roby the Costerbot, a small Arduino robot built on a CD platter platform, demonstrating early STEM learning in 2010