• Harvest

    Harvest Monday!!!

    This is my very first Harvest Monday post hosted by Daphne’s Dandelions!!!  Daphne hosts these Monday posts by not only blogging about what she has harvested, but by also allowing fellow bloggers to add their names to her post as well so we can all see what each of us is up to! While there are really not many items ready…

  • Bees & Pollinators,  Everything Else

    The bad, the ugly and the upside…

    Sometimes, when I write a blog, I want to only show the good, beautiful, happiness that is happening with the yard or the chickens.  Don’t ask me why, maybe it’s just in my nature.  However, it’s not the whole truth and I know that I enjoy reading of other urban homesteading struggles because those who share their struggles are telling…

  • Grow

    A Huge Planting Day!!!

    Today was a big…er…HUGE planting day!  We planted about a million (no joke) seeds in our front and back yards in addition to a ton and a half of Wild Flower seeds both in beds and back behind our Top Bar Hive (the bees should arrive this week)!  We still have another couple of weeks until our guaranteed frost free nights,…

  • Bees & Pollinators

    Proposed Bee Ordinance

    Today I found out that one of our City Counselors is proposing this new bee ordinance that would require bee keepers to register their apiaries, get inspections and keep their hives 75 feet away from property lines (unless there are walls or fences at least 6 feet high to separate them) as well as a few other minor details. He…

  • Harvest

    The first harvest of the spring!!!

    Yesterday morning was beautiful.  That was before the winds whipped up and coated the entire city in a gross, dusty haze (we really, really need some real rain).  Before the haze, though, I got some work done in the front yard (when you wake up at the crack of dawn you can get a lot done before 10am) I started…

  • Grow

    The Three Sisters

    Bandelier National Monument is a fantastically beautiful place (especially on a weekday in spring when there are not a trillion people mulling about) and has been “calling” me back for the past couple of years.  We finally made the short drive yesterday (the beauty of following the public schools calendar it that, when they are closed, I get to take…