It’s been a busy few weeks, and since spring has finally arrived, it is only going to get busier and busier as the garden takes over my life. There has been so much joy happening lately. No Kings was amazing. I didn’t go to the huge rally at the capitol, but to the one in …
Category: joy
Fake Spring
Fake Spring came to Minnesota last week. Fake spring usually happens a couple times in late winter before real spring arrives. Temperatures soared to 50F / 10C and a few degrees above. Now that might not sound warm to you, but for us, that meant going out on neighborhood foot patrol in sneakers and a …
Occupied
So much happening here and it changes from hour to hour and day to day. Minneapolis and Minnesota are all over the headlines and opening my email to the journalists’ newsletters I subscribe to or perusing the reporting of pretty much any news site is disconcerting. I'm reading echoes. Foreign news agencies have sent their …
Welcome 2026
After last weekend’s main drain backup it turned out the plumbing wasn’t finished with us yet. Thursday afternoon the shower in the basement bathroom we’ve been using for the past month while our main bathroom remodel takes its sweet time, decided to leak. And it wasn’t one of those slow drip, drip leaks. But we …
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 …
