Stopped on my bike ride home Tuesday to enjoy the sunset over Lake Nokomis James is healing from his surgery from a week ago Friday. He is getting his energy back. His incisions are now starting to get itchy. He still can’t bend well or stretch to get something out of a kitchen cabinet. And …
Category: Climate Emergency
Like a Mama Hen
Chickens can't quite believe they are in the main garden After digging the sweet potatoes and protecting the cabbage and radishes Saturday, we opened the gate between the main garden and the chicken garden to let the girls roam. Such happiness! So excited by the wood sorrel growing just inside the garden gate, it was …
Bun on the Run
It turns out we should not have been almost completely sure that Little Bun had been chased from the garden. Our certainty made us blind. Beans kept being eaten. Squash flowers kept disappearing. We made up excuses. We just hadn't noticed before. Squirrels. Always blame the squirrels. Then Tuesday night we were watering the garden …
A Single Gooseberry
I am feeling much better this week. The baby rabbit kept finding a way into the garden and eating all of my bush and soup beans, some squash blossoms, and nibbling on the sweet potato vines but I just feel resigned. James and I chase the poor scared little Bun around the garden, trying to …
Normal Doesn’t Exist Anymore
Our drought here has gone from moderate to severe in spite of a couple thunderstorms this past week. Meanwhile, Vermont is underwater, the southern U.S. is baking in a record-breaking heatwave, and Canada is on fire. Other parts of the world are in no better shape. But the business of fossil energy production continues apace …
