What a lovely way to spend a Saturday. First, we went berry picking with friends. Clara ate her weight in strawberries while the rest of us filled our buckets.
Then we canned strawberry jam. What in the world is better than homemade strawberry jam that you helped make yourself?
If you haven't ...
June 15th 2009
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gardening
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About two months ago, Joy and I were chatting about chickens on a Saturday morning. And somehow, by that very afternoon, we had 4 baby chicks living in our kitchen. I'm not really known for my skills in thinking things through. I'm more of a fun-loving... fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants kind of a ...
June 8th 2009
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gardening
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This evening I did some more painting on my deck in the fading light of the evening, wearing an old black Japanese slipdress that used to belong to my grandmother and slippers. I had BB King playing on the radio, the chickens running about the yard and the sprinklers watering ...
It's Sunday evening already and the weekend zoomed by. For some reason, I feel like a mass of anxiety - thinking about all the laundry that didn't get put away and the floors that didn't get swept - instead of all the clothes that were washed and dried, the grass ...
We just had my ideal, perfect, dream weekend. Well... short of being on vacation, anyway.
The weather was gorgeous.
Clara's dad hung out and played, and worked on the chicken penthouse aka coop for our baby chicks.
The girls played in the sprinkler, and the slip n' slide, and the hose, and the ...
While Clara was taking her afternoon nap on Saturday, Joy and I enjoyed the brief ray of sunshine we got here in Bellingham, and worked in our disaster area of a garden."Mom, what's the difference between weeds and the other plants?""Well, it's all subjective. Weeds are just the plants we ...
March 24th 2008
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gardening
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I miss my garden. The lack of free time isn't killing me - I've adjusted to the fact that I don't have time for the karate classes I used to take, or the fact that I haven't even taken my cello out of it's case for 11 months (since my ...
January 17th 2008
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gardening
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The deal I have made with my plants is this: if they will just survive, just limp through, until my youngest is 5 years old, I promise that I will take better care of them than any other plant on the block. They will be blessed. They will be green, ...
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