We don’t need the acequia now as much as we did at the height of the season, now with the garden all shutting down and the fields browning despite our best efforts to keep them green. The cooler nights and shorter days are quietly calling for everything to stop trying so hard to battle against the high desert of…
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The simple act of reading has become not so simple for me over the past few years. Not because I don’t want to read… Or because I don’t enjoy reading… But because I’ve taken to choosing books to read for fun that aren’t actually fun… But educational instead. Not there’s something entirely wrong with that, but sometimes I just want…
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With the month almost half way gone (already!), the September Slide into fall has officially begun. Between the chilly nights and still hot days… The the late planted sunflowers in full bloom and the garden in decline… The chickens putting themselves to bed well before dark and the woolly caterpillars trying to find a safe spot to rest… I’m now finding…
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Talk about a day late a dollar short! Geez…I must apologize for getting this post out a full week late! Though I hope and trust you will forgive me! Truly, I had no idea how much the wedding would take out of me in terms of time and mental capacity to deal with anything except getting to The Day, through…
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Today is The Day, my Friends! The day my Partner officially becomes my Wife! I truly couldn’t be more excited or more blessed! But before you call me crazy…No, I’m really not online today (#1 Ain’t nobody got time for that! 😉 and #2 Yes, we’re having an “unplugged” ceremony)! I simply scheduled this to remind all of you who…
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This post could also easily be called, “Now I Understand Why People Elope!” 😉 Two short months ago, when we finally decided to get married and set our date, we didn’t think much of the quick turnaround. Instead, we thought: We are doers. We are facilitators. We are badass DIYers. We’ve got this! So we made our guest list, printed…
