Ethel when she isn't Broody Ethel’s biological clock has decided to tell her she needs to stop laying eggs and hatch some instead. So she’s gone broody. It doesn’t matter that we have no rooster and the eggs will never hatch, her hormones win out. First she sat on her egg, but we took it …
Hail No!
Hail just getting started After I burbled so happily about the garden last week, within hours pea-sized hail pelted from the sky and all I could do was watch. The hailstorm lasted for a good 15 to 20 minutes and covered the garden in a thick layer that took a few hours to completely melt …
Sowing
Self-planted purple columbine The garden is all planted! All the seeds are sown, and, except for a few indoor starts that are still a little small, everything has been planted out. James and I are tuckered out. But it’s the satisfied sort of tuckered out that comes after you’ve done work you love. In an …
Green Plants and Green Houses
I subscribe to a couple newsletters about foraging, and one, from a local person who teaches classes that I aspire to attending one day, had a blog post in her newsletter about spring greens to forage. Most of them I already knew about, but then she mentions sochan. What the heck it that? And I …
Full Swing
So many apple blossoms My brother-in-law and his wife stopped the night at our house last weekend on their way to the UP (that’s midwest talk for the upper peninsula of Michigan) and they stopped again this weekend on their way home to Albuquerque. It was great to see them, they are good people, but …
