I don’t often get philosophical here. I usually reserve those thoughts for my private journal, but a conversation with a friend has inspired me to share here this morning. We were talking about the Las Vegas shooting, the fact that the governor of Florida has declared a state of emergency over an upcoming speaker, the “dead zone” in the Gulf…
I’ve always had a crafty bent. I started off life as a fiction writer–I wrote my “first book” at the tender age of 5. It was a short book about rainbows, written, illustrated, and “published” by me. I don’t remember how I did it, but I created a hard back cover for my book and displayed it in my room…
Forgive me for a moment while I stray from all topics health and share my new obsession with you. Ducks! When we bought the chicks almost 3 weeks ago, they had ducklings as well. My daughter asked if we could also get a couple of ducks. Never thinking anything would come of it, I told her I wasn’t sure how…
My husband and I have been discussing raising chickens for a couple of years. I decided that this was the year we were going to make it happen. Fresh, minimally processed eggs from local farmers have many health and financial benefits. I buy fresh eggs from local families who have chickens, but I’m paying between $3 and $3.50 per dozen,…
The difficult thing about starting my garden on our land is the I never know what will actually grow. When we moved into this house 15 months ago, the house was newly built, and the land it sits on had previously been forest. The land the house sits on, and the land immediately around it were cleared specifically to build…
There is a Bumble Bee, or maybe it’s a Carpenter Bee stalking our back porch. I spent one day last week burning small, old, dead wood in our big bbq grill. We’ve spent the last several weeks collecting deadwood from near the house. Most if it will be chopped into firewood for next winter, but some is simply too rotted…
Last Monday, I posted a link to a recipe for a homemade calcium supplement made from egg shells and lemon juice. Late last week I decided to try the recipe and see what happened. I think it worked well. My only complaint is there are little white balls of soft eggshell that didn’t dissolve completely in the lemon juice. When the…
This week has been all about planting and learning which plants compliment each other. It’s been a couple of years since I’ve had room for more than an extensive container garden, and I’m in a completely different part of the country now than I was even 2 months ago. The climate is different here. It’s warmer, more humid, and gets…