A Beautiful End to Summer
Time in the garden is extra sweet these days knowing that our first freeze is just around the corner. Many of the flowers are putting out a final show before the cold descends, the clematis among them. The pond lily is particularly pretty right now. And, though the zinnias are looking a little worn – […]
The Chickens Are Laying Again
So nice to see eggs in the nesting box again! We’ve missed them. I’d almost forgotten our chickens could lay eggs. But, with longer days and their molting done, the chickens have picked up right where they left off in the fall. Now, the goal will be to get the chickens out into the yard and […]
Continued Cold and Snow
Snow and frigid temperatures continue – except for one strange day when we reached 60 degrees and all of the snow melted in a matter of hours. Lawns flooded, then froze again into shallow ice rinks the next day. Strange. Ursa has been enjoying this winter very much. When we go for walks, she veers […]
Arctic Temperatures and an Accordion
Did you have a white Christmas like we did? Wasn’t it nice? Or, maybe it wasn’t so nice for you. Maybe you had to drive somewhere and the roads were treacherous. That’s never fun. But, if, like us, you were spending Christmas at the at the next door neighbor’s house and had only to walk […]
Snow, a Fruitcake, and Some Recent Knitting
I wonder what question the bug was asking when he carved a question mark into this oak leaf. Ginger found it today on our walk. Maybe he was asking why the fruit you bake into a fruitcake always sinks to the bottom. What a sad fruitcake. It tasted all right, but it had a tumultuous […]
