This is not a rabbit but an Asiatic lily, var. "Tango" Even as we were literally beating the bushes around the garden trying to evict the second of the two baby rabbits, I read a blog post from an intentional community farm (whose name I cannot at the moment recall) about slow clothing and creating …
Category: Chickens
Had a Little Vacation
Oh friends, what times we live in! You have probably heard about the assassination of Minnesota State Senator Melissa Hortman, her husband and their dog, and the attempted assassination of State Senator Jim Hoffman and his wife, as well as the many names of other people on Boelter’s list. Neither Hortman nor Hoffman are my …
Eat Your Weeds
Chives and catmint blooming in the herb spiral Hello friends, it’s been a minute. When it’s between the garden and sitting down to write a post about the garden, the garden wins every time. Priorities! Everything but for a few still too small to plant out perennials started from seeds is finally planted, which means …
Why Does My Thumb Hurt?
For the last several days I’ve been wondering why my thumb hurts so much. Not the thumb itself but the squishy bit at the base of my thumb. What did I do? I couldn’t figure it out. It’s gone from hurting just a little to a near constant ache. Then today I was planting more …
Blizzard
Not only a blizzard of busy-ness but an actual snow blizzard too. No post last week because When I came to Sunday afternoon I was pretty much done. We had a blizzard Tuesday night into Wednesday morning that made roads and visibility so bad even the buses stopped running, which meant neither James nor I …
