Saturday’s mail brought the first of the season’s seed catalogs. And Saturday night it snowed. The snow was just a sugar coated dusting, but it was a reminder that winter is coming—eventually—because it is forecast to be as warm as 59F/15C by next Saturday. But today is gray and very windy and below freezing, a …
Author: Stefanie
Avid reader, gardener, librarian, cyclist, and vegan.
The Dark Time
The title sounds so ominous! As we in the United States once again complain about having to change the clocks, this time back an hour which is easier to adjust to than “springing forward” in March, here is a great article about time and work from an Indigenous perspective. Because changing the clocks twice a …
Finally Frost
As I sat at the kitchen table shelling dry beans Friday afternoon, idly gazing out the sliding glass doors to the deck. Spider Squirrel came for a visit. The daytime temperatures have settled into crisp autumn and the glass door was closed, but the screen door was open, pushed back almost all the way to …
The End of an Era
Well friends, we reached the end of an era on Monday night with the death of Mrs. Dashwood, last of the Dashwood flock. After nine and half years it started to seem like she would just keep going and going and going even though she had clearly slowed down considerably from her younger days. But …
Sia’s Big Adventure
James’s work schedule is Sunday through Thursday. After running some errands in the morning, he opened the run door to let the chickens wander their own little garden. It has cooled off to more seasonable weather, and James didn’t have the sliding glass deck door open, but the chicken alarm was so loud he still …
