Oh Friends, it has been a busy couple of weeks, but now I am happily on vacation for the next two weeks. Aaaaahhhhhh. The busy was from many things. At work it was wrapping up the semester and trying to make sure the professors I support had all the research materials they needed while the …
Category: Holidays
Getting Ready
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 …
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 …
