2008

Parts is Parts

All Fall Down

Fire Season

Heading home Monday night, we saw a plume of smoke rising into the sky. We weren’t worried...

The Chase

Living in an area where wild animals can still live by hunting is sometimes a very odd reality, the...

Fried Green Seedlings

Well, the sad news is that the seedlings about which I wrote (doing well, yada, yada) are no more. I...

The Lady's Not for Burning

Today was a burn day and those are likely to be few and far between in the next few months as the...

Seedlings!

I have two tiny little seedlings poking their optimistic little green leaves up over the thread-like...

Rain

… again. End of March and all is wet. At least I put my planter boxes up on the deck to try to...

Seedling Mix

I found a recipe for seedling potting mix in the March/April edition of Hobby Farms. I made it up...

Spring Is In the Air

Spring is sprung, the grass is going nuts, and the hummingbirds are demanding sugar syrup. Most of...

Trade Winds Fruit

Tree Reduction = Firewood Production

We spent yesterday playing with chainsaws, cutting the tree that went down in the January windstorms...

seesmic

Hail, Hail, the Weather's All Here

When the sky started looking grey and dark, I remembered that the main woodpile was still uncovered....

Rain and Such

It rained only a little yesterday but the clouds were moving fast. I could look out one window and...

Spring Went Home

Spring was lovely while it lasted but now it has gone away again. Rain. I didn’t expect it...

Water Karma

We’ve unburied the pipe that was leaking and replaced the section that was leaking....

One Windy Day