Chipped out a path to the street Even with Monday off for the New Year holiday, it’s been an exhausting week. This is mainly because over the course of two days we got 15 inches/38 cm of wet, heavy snow. So much shoveling! And even when it stops snowing there is still shoveling because the …
Category: Seasons
New Year Evolutions
Happy New Year! We are not late-night people at my house. After riding my bike 83 miles on Zwift yesterday, I barely managed to keep my eyes open until 9. We did celebrate with burgers from our favorite plant-based cafe though. And today James made us black-eyed pea fritters and rice pilaf for good luck, …
Welcome Winter!
Snow covered witch hazel This last week a big winter storm hovered over Minnesota for days. I am so glad I don’t live up on the north shore where they had a blizzard and as much as three feet of snow! In the Twin Cities we got rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then Wednesday night …
Seesaw
First snow viewed from my workplace Oh y’all, the weather doesn’t know what it wants to be. A few days after it was 80F it snowed. And then we had a colder than normal week. I put away all my warm weather clothes and packed my drawers with sweaters. And now I am typing this …
The End of the Garden Season
Just big enough to eat Last weekend, since there were only pole beans and squash left in the garden, I carefully placed protecting barriers around them so the chickens could finally be allowed in again. They were all standing at the gate between gardens, hoping that a treat was forthcoming. Little did they know what …
