Home is more than a structure. It’s what you surround yourself with and carry inside.
It was a cooler, less humid weekend. This is Minnesota so we know these weather breaks are short lived (there’s a predicted high of 95 F today), so that’s all the more reason to appreciate the good times by being outside as much as possible. Steve and I headed for the Minneapolis Farmer’s Market around…
My general stress level makes me wonder how I manage to be mistaken for a normal, functioning human being from day-to-day. Wait, I do generally look normal and functioning, don’t I? Floating down the river last Saturday was a wonderful moment of escape from an ordinary life, but I can’t get out and do that…
“Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.” — Rainer Maria Rilke In my last post I wrote about the work that was done on the chicken coop, shed, and mini-woodland landscape. But the other thing I did over Memorial weekend was to buy plants and seeds for my raised beds…
I am sitting in my potting shed typing on my wireless keypad, which is synced up to my iPad, which is managing to pick up Wifi from the house. Isn’t that cool?! Did I mention that I’m sipping iced coffee and looking out at my chickens who have finally made it outside?! I am loving…
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows. — Henry David Thoreau What I love to do is grow and nurture — see living things go through all those mysterious stages of development. It’s where I feel most alive and close to something big and mysterious. When people ask me…
Before I continue on and on and on with my photos of New York, I have to tell you about my “To Do” list. Exciting, right? Spring certainly does create lengthy “To Do” lists, especially if you are expanding your gardens and have a lot of house and yard maintenance to do. I wanted to…
