Is this thing on?

Hello blog, I missed you.  Lots is happening around here and posting just was not happening.  Then I started getting that weird craft blog guilt thing where you can’t post new stuff until you’ve posted old stuff, but you can’t find your camera cable to get photos from your grownup camera, and you feel stupid [...]

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In the Can

Well, the jar, to be strictly accurate.  Today I put up some tomatoes.  We had just barely enough ripe in the garden to make it worthwhile – but I consider that remarkable given that it is June 3 and that the tot eats them off the vine at an incredible rate of speed. This is [...]

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Random projects, random art, and a sandbox

Doll has been repaired. I can’t find the before pic I took, but her poor little self was all ripped and stained and worn through. I found her in a box in the top of the closet in my old room on a recent trip home and kind of freaked out a little. I don’t [...]

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Munch

Why is it that when things get chaotic, knitting and crafting in general – my most relaxing activities aside from actual sleep – go right out the window? Ah well. At least I can take pictures of the garden. I planted some fennel to attract swallowtail butterflies, and now it’s covered in caterpillars. At least [...]

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Sunny

The rosemary in my sunny garden have really taken off this year.  I love the scent that lingers when I walk through them, I love to feel the warmth of the sun that has soaked into the leaves.  I love to harvest little snips for meals or just to stick behind my ear while I [...]

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Toads!

I have been working a lot on the front yard, trying to get a bunch of plants in and get it all fixed up cute and, you know, not awful. I am always kind of scared when I’m doing any planting because I hate to chop a worm in two and I’m always afraid I’ll [...]

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Fry it!

I like to think that the meals I cook for my family are pretty healthy. But there are some things you just gotta fry. My mama makes fried okra that I cannot describe any better than to say that it is ambrosia. She’s always worried that it’s too salty, or too done, or not done [...]

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May Day

To celebrate Beltane, also known as May Day, the tot and I set out a little offering of dried flowers for Lady Spring and the faeries.  (We did this today rather than yesterday, when she was a sick pup.  Lady Spring understands if the festivities need to be rescheduled because of barfing.) We had some [...]

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Lavender Days

Our spring days are scented by the lavender and rosemary, the fennel, the basil and the green green tomatoes growing in our gardens. My Little Owl likes to sit in her secret place in the garden, surrounded by the lavender blooms and the rosemary. We have an evening ritual of enjoying a cup of tea together.  [...]

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Whiff of green

What’s that smell?  Why, I do believe it’s spring.  This year, I decided that although in theory I love the idea of starting all my plants from seeds, that is a little silly when my garden consists of two small raised beds. We are not talking mass production here. So I went ahead and spent [...]

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