Squirrels v. Frontyard pumpkins I think this time of year is almost busier than spring. Spring is all about planting and the start of the growing season, but I’ve had time all winter to plan for it. And while it is all weather dependent on when gardening begins, once it does, it goes along pretty …
Category: Skills
Weaving on a Loom
Earlier this year I took a beginning drop spindle class. It was great fun! I’m still spinning, a little her and a little there. I have tried a couple different spindles, top whorl, bottom whorl, supported. So far I like the top whorl the best. My top whorl spindle is a beginner’s one and on …
It’s Getting Quiet
There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example--where had they gone? … On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring …
Spin Class
In this short clip (about 2 minutes), Satish Kumar speaks passionately about the amazing technology that is the human hand and how digital technology is not serving us, but we are instead serving it, so that we have no time to rest, dance, celebrate, or create beauty with out hands. https://youtu.be/bXyMTMEMeX8 I love how the …
Invaded Again!
The Invader Rabbit is most wascally! Even after we closed off all the previous entry points, the rabbit got in again. We went rabbit tracking, and followed the tracks and droppings as Rabbit worked their way around the perimeter of the garden. We discovered and blocked the entry point. Then a couple days later, Rabbit …
