Just this morning I learned of the tragic death of Kathreen Ricketson and her partner Rob while on their year-long family sabbatical in Australia. Kathreen was, among so many things, the creator of the WhipUp site that I had the privilege of contributing to in April. My heart breaks for their children. It comes as no surprise, though, that the
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First off, let me thank you for allowing me to indulge in some April Fool’s mischief yesterday. What fun that was. Second, get a load of these sweet little kids (not mine) we visited a few weeks back. Third, why not hop over to Whipup for the launch of my month as guest editor? I’m tackling the theme of Functional
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Lest you get the impression that it’s all grey and gloom here, I’d like to offer up this last installment of landscape photos. The rising sun lent this ethereal rosy cast to everything within its grasp one morning last week. Enjoy!
Yesterday: drip. Today: bluster. Drip. Bluster. Yesterday demanded that we manufacture our own light with fire, tea, and knitting. Today requires that we manufacture our own warmth. I might try fire, tea, and knitting for that, too. Yesterday required a lengthy search for firewood deep within the tarped pile, where the rain had not yet completely penetrated. Today I shall
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Winter’s Eve casts the most lovely of all seasonal light, I think. The familiar, once painted with freshfallen snow, becomes daguerreotype snapshots of this place from another time. I spent the early part of this morning completely sidetracked on a search for Grandma Moses-like barkcloth panels, an intense wanting sparked (I sheepishly admit) by Alicia’s pillow. I had a strange
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I had to hop over to CNN.com on Saturday to see why all of my Facebook friends were so sad. The radio had been off, or playing Christmas music the last several days, so our Friday came and went without anything remarkable to set it apart. We might have been the only ones carrying on in blissful ignorance, taking our
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This video resonated with me profoundly yesterday. Have a look. You?
A quick hello and smattering of neat things before I head out to the trenches…of the gardens. Must. Get. Garden. In. Today. (or die trying) + We sheared 5 of our sheep this past weekend. Whew. It was an EVENT. More on that later this week. + A WHOLE PAGE of the new website has been created! This means that
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Three… two… one… blast off! The purging power of fire has reduced a mountain of junk wood to ash. Never fear – I didn’t want to waste a single useful piece either. I spent hours one day sorting out the useful bits from the soft, punky, crumbling-in-place bits and set those aside before the flames hit. What I wouldn’t give
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