Stopped on my bike ride home Tuesday to enjoy the sunset over Lake Nokomis James is healing from his surgery from a week ago Friday. He is getting his energy back. His incisions are now starting to get itchy. He still can’t bend well or stretch to get something out of a kitchen cabinet. And …
Roller Coaster
What a roller coaster of a week it’s been. I did not adjust well to the time change. My eyes flew open at what is now 4 a.m. almost every day, thinking it was 5 a.m. and time to get up. And then I was falling asleep before 8:30. I’m still not quite sure I’ve …
Caged Birds
I discovered this week that there is something lacking in the intelligence of sparrows. Ethel looking fluffy and extra beardy Last week on Sunday James was testing the heating lamp for the chicken coop and when he went out he chased several squirrels and a bunch of sparrows out of the run. The squirrels were …
Infuriatingly Wasteful
You can see the pipe on the sidewalk along with the pretty leaves before the wind and rain In typical Minnesota fashion we went from 60F/15.5C on Thursday, to plummeting temperatures Friday and a chance of snow overnight. It did not snow. But we did finally have not just a frost, but a hard frost. …
City Folk Move to the Country
I got an email from a local indie publisher the other day about a new upcoming book about a couple who lived in a city in Ireland and then moved to the country to pursue a rural agrarian homesteading sort of life, living lightly on the earth, discovering what it means to be rooted and …
