Recently

Recently

While I have been a bit quiet in this space recently, it isn't for lack of happenings, it's been for lack of actual, physical, time, energy and brain power.  I am right in the throes of my own personal end-of-my-final-semester-crunch.  The 16 hours I chose to take this semester has culminated into many late nights and early mornings as I…
December 7, 2012
Unfinished Projects

Unfinished Projects

I remember watching my mom crochet when I was tiny.  I would watch the yarn slide through her fingers and her hook do a little dance and, in the end, there would be a beautiful blanket where a ball of yarn used to be. My mom taught me how to crochet when I was still pretty little...maybe six or seven,…
December 2, 2012

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Births by Pablo NerudaWe will never remember dying.We were so patientabout being,noting downthe numbers, the days,the years and the months,the hair, the mouths we kissed,but that moment of dying:we surrender it without a note,we give it to others as remembrance,or we give it simply to water,to water, to air, to time.Nor do we keepthe memory of our birth,though being born was…
November 29, 2012
The Not-So-Great Potato Harvest

The Not-So-Great Potato Harvest

I had high hopes for our potatoes this year.  I purchased 10 pounds of German Butterball seed potatoes last spring and added them to a few random (sprouting) potatoes we had laying around (a few red and a few purple).  We had new beds and old beds to plant them in as well as a few garbage cans for the…
November 28, 2012
Look Lovely

Look Lovely

I saw this on facebook a few days ago and it made me happy...I hope it makes you happy, too!Hope you're enjoying a lovely day!xoxo,M
November 27, 2012
Harvest Monday

Harvest Monday

Happy Monday, everyone!Well, I am happy to report that we finally harvested some beets! Three full pounds of them! These guys were planted in the late spring in one of my bio intensive beds (corn, bush beans and beets) as an experiment and did pretty well.  They were a little slow to grow, I think because the corn grew so…
November 26, 2012