2008

May

Parts is Parts
May 27th
All Fall Down
May 27th

Fire Season

Heading home Monday night, we saw a plume of smoke rising into the sky. We weren’t worried...
May 16th

The Chase

Living in an area where wild animals can still live by hunting is sometimes a very odd reality, the...
May 5th

Apr

Fried Green Seedlings

Well, the sad news is that the seedlings about which I wrote (doing well, yada, yada) are no more. I...
Apr 29th

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...
Apr 28th

Seedlings!

I have two tiny little seedlings poking their optimistic little green leaves up over the thread-like...
Apr 26th

Mar

Rain

… again. End of March and all is wet. At least I put my planter boxes up on the deck to try to...
Mar 29th

Seedling Mix

I found a recipe for seedling potting mix in the March/April edition of Hobby Farms. I made it up...
Mar 24th

Spring Is In the Air

Spring is sprung, the grass is going nuts, and the hummingbirds are demanding sugar syrup. Most of...
Mar 24th
Trade Winds Fruit
Mar 19th

Tree Reduction = Firewood Production

We spent yesterday playing with chainsaws, cutting the tree that went down in the January windstorms...
Mar 19th
seesmic
Mar 17th

Hail, Hail, the Weather's All Here

When the sky started looking grey and dark, I remembered that the main woodpile was still uncovered....
Mar 16th

Rain and Such

It rained only a little yesterday but the clouds were moving fast. I could look out one window and...
Mar 15th

Spring Went Home

Spring was lovely while it lasted but now it has gone away again. Rain. I didn’t expect it...
Mar 13th
Warch Watch
Found this on Vimeo. I think it’s funny.
Mar 10th

Water Karma

We’ve unburied the pipe that was leaking and replaced the section that was leaking....
Mar 10th
One Windy Day
Mar 10th