It’s a record breaking 55F/13C here today! Yowza! It made cutting back prairie plants near the sidewalk in the front yard a pleasant and mildly sweaty experience. But the weather is soon to change. Spent goldenrod flowers are beautiful The polar vortex is about to be disrupted, one of the earliest disruptions on record since …
Category: Holidays
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 …
Energize!
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 …
Imbolc
Multigrain sourdough bread Check it out! Another sourdough! This one is multigrain. I expected it would use multigrain flour, but no, it called for 10-grain cereal to add to the dough. But my co-op only had 7-grain so I am missing three grains. Heh. No matter. It is delicious! Are y’all tired of my sourdough …
New Year, Sort Of
Here we are, several days into 2025. I hope everyone is doing well. There are so many new year opportunities that the calendar new year is kind of anti-climactic for me. When I was a kid it was great. My family would stay up until midnight to watch the ball drop on TV. We’d get …
