race ya

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is everyone having a good holiday weekend? i hope so . . . for us, it’s four days off, alone in the house as our construction crew takes a short break until monday. woo-hoo! it’s nice to know i can sleep in if i wanted, even if my body doesn’t let me, haha. we started […]

the view within

Posted on 22 CommentsPosted in designing, food and garden, lace/shawls, projects

would you like to have a look at how the renovation is going? now that the demo is behind us, the framing is progressing at a rate that to us seems rapid, though to the builders, it’s slow going in an old hose where nothing is square or even. this is our mud room, the […]

instead of sun—flowers

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sigh, leeks left over from last year are flowering; so pretty. even though we didn’t plant a vegetable garden this year, there is plenty going on out in our little plot. we let it all go last fall, not tilling under because we wanted the root vegetables to winter over in the ground (which worked […]