I have been cleaning and sorting and clearing in the house; there is much to do. One day I climbed up a ladder and washed high walls – can’t remember the last time I did that (embarrassing, but true). I also started sorting rags with the plan to put them in barrels outside until I have cleaned, sorted, reorganized my solo living space. …
Last fall we had unusual weather – eighties on October 20th! And less than three weeks later on November 5th, the temperature dropped to single digits, and the ground froze. We wanted to plant garlic, but how? Ken planted garlic in the mobile high tunnel where the soil was NOT frozen. This spring has been cool and we got late snow. I realized it would be warm in the greenhouse so I dug …
Years ago when we were in a fair trade store I saw a lovely set of chimes. I announced to Ken I wanted to buy it. This does not happen often, and he was taken aback. He looked at it and said, “A guy could make one of these.” My quick reply was, “And if A GUY doesn’t make one, his wife will buy one.” For a few weeks Ken puzzled what he had …
