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, …
Category: Seasons
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 …
Briefly
It was a gloriously melty week and the snow in the garden was getting thin. I was hoping to see the ground soon. Yesterday it rained and we even had a thunderstorm. And then this morning I woke up to this: Evidence of spring's cruelty Close to five inches of wet, heavy snow. Most of …
