Now that I live alone, I spend more time on the phone and in front of screens. Sometimes, I confess, I eat a meal while I read email. Recently a little furry friend has taken to napping on the chair by the computer. It may just be the right chair or the right temperature (the sun has gotten hot in the last week), but I take the opportunity to question whether I need to sit …
It rained last night. It is cool, cloudy, and damp. I was thinking about staying inside today, making bread, working on sorting paper, and maybe taking a nap. Once I fed the dog, cat, and chickens I headed over to make my bed. Oscar and Big Red had claimed turf for napping and were giving me the Do Not Disturb looks. So I left them. After getting the bread dough mixed, I checked on them; …
We had quite a storm last night – enough wind to blow down branches and pull laundry off the clothesline. There were puddles in the driveway this morning – that hasn’t happened most of the season. Last night Oscar was inside – he hates thunder. And today during the day long drizzle Big Red decided that napping in the house was preferable to any place outdoors. I was working and at one point I …
Big Red was out last night as he has been since we got some warm weather. But he came inside early this morning, And has been following the sun all day as it shines through various windows
No, I have not gone on a bender! There was a cat in the house who likes to push pens onto the floor
Greetings from the Garden! This box has greens – spinach, lettuce, salad mix, potato onions or green onions, potatoes and beets from the root cellar and some fresh herbs Field Notes. Ken keeps a-planting and a-weeding. Right now he is also getting ready for our spring opener next weekend. His largest task is clearing some downed wood and I am helping stack once we split it. Oscar went in for surgery. He had a benign …
Over the past week Ken has been working to clear the cut wood along the drive. Once he cuts it to length, loads it onto the trailer and gets the trailer up to the wood splitter I start to help. He runs the splitter and I stack. We have stacked teh north end shelves and a rack on the north end to hold the wood in place. And north of that are chunks that …
This time of year Ken starts to wrap up making pottery. The call of the the many tasks awaiting him outdoors sounds more and more loudly. Yes, there is planting, and there is clean up, bed prep, getting out things put away last fall, repairs if necessary. And all the apples, plums, grapes, etc need trimming and pruning! Today Big Red appears to be helping!
