Hello Friends. Happy belated Earth Day! Yeah, I know, every day is Earth Day, and it seems silly to have a designated day. But, I’m increasingly of the belief that special days are good to have for celebrations and to mark occasions or call attention to something. And since in our current world flavor, Earth …
Author: Stefanie
Avid reader, gardener, librarian, cyclist, and vegan.
Bird Flu
As if a human pandemic isn't enough to worry about, now we have to worry about an outbreak of H5N1 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). I've been getting regular updates from the Twin Cities chicken keeping list I am on since the outbreak began on the east coast a couple months ago. It made it …
Car-free
The other day Bill McKibben posted an essay on his blog titled Inertia is a problem too in which he says: But there’s another force at work alongside Interest [Big Oil, etc.,], and that’s Inertia, defined as the force that has kept you from, say, ever cleaning the coil on the bottom of your fridge, …
Choose Joy
Joy n. ME [Middle English] 1. Vivid pleasure arising from a sense of well-being or satisfaction; exultation; gladness, delight 2. A pleasurable, happy, or felicitous state or condition; esp. the bliss or blessedness of heaven.Shorter OED About 17 years ago, not long after James was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and I still went to his …
Seed Starting Time!
We are in the midst of seasonal transition here, when Winter takes his time to move out and Spring sends care packages ahead of her arrival. Thus we went from near 40F one day to below zero two days later and now we are, once again approaching 40F today with the week’s forecast teasing a …
