First, special shout out thank you to Andrew and Marcie for their comments regarding politics on my last post. They have served to remind me that I stopped book blogging and started this blog as a way to talk about climate change and politics and all the things that wrap themselves up in our day-to-day …
Category: Food
Seeds and Such
Hi Friends! I wanted to have a huge political rant, but I know many of you are being extremely careful about how and when you take in certain subjects these days, so I put my rants and links under the "Reading" heading at the end of the post and labeled it "politics" so you can …
Getting Pruney
A busy weekend! I’ve not sat down for more than 30 minutes all day today. So this will be another short and sweet one. James and I started pruning the apple trees yesterday. I say started because after we removed one huge dead branch our fingers were so cold we couldn’t do more. While we …
A Forest of Sprouts
Look at them go! That’s what James called them. Obviously my worry last week was overblown because by Monday evening the yellow onions had tiny little leaves just nudging up beneath the soil. By Tuesday they were standing up. By Wednesday the red onions began sprouting. And now I have a forest of onion sprouts. …
It Wasn’t a Fluke!
Oh baby it's cold outside! How cold is it? It's so cold that my freezer is warmer than the outdoors. Currently it's -7F/-22C and that's several degrees warmer than it was just a few hours ago. The polar vortex will be hanging around for only a few days, and I get to miss most of …