Even the chickens got to enjoy the warm sunshine What a roller coaster week in so many ways. But today is sunny and what we call warm here in Minneapolis, which means 33F/ 1C. Now many of you will scoff and say that is definitely not warm. But I tell you warm is a relative …
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Doored
A quiet week on the garden front. After my seed catalog binge I’ve calmed down. It’s time to be fallow for a little while, well, at least until after Winter Solstice. Then I will be eager to order seeds and make my seed starting calendar. That’s always fun. I mentioned last week about my neighbor …
Winter Strikes Back
Obligatory snow photo Last Wednesday in this almost nonexistent winter that seemed, a couple weeks ago, to decide on spring and turned warm and sunny enough to encourage Silver Maple to bloom, buds on shrubs to swell, the tulips to pop up, and the rhubarb to begin to poke their prehistoric looking crimpy leaves to …
And We Walked in Fields of Gold
Well, maybe not walked, more like crawled. And not exactly a field, more like a grassy park area next to picnic tables. There was a field adjacent, a baseball field belonging to an elementary school. Gold though, there was plenty of gold. We caught peak dandelion. Within less than half an hour, we had filled …
Car-free
The other day Bill McKibben posted an essay on his blog titled Inertia is a problem too in which he says: But there’s another force at work alongside Interest [Big Oil, etc.,], and that’s Inertia, defined as the force that has kept you from, say, ever cleaning the coil on the bottom of your fridge, …
