and still growing

Posted on 12 CommentsPosted in designing, food and garden, projects

another big, big week of everything the garden loves—much rain with some intensely sunny days to put the icing on the cake. the plants have literally doubled in size and everything is flowering or fruiting. i think i am most proud of our squash plants at the moment—we have not had such hardy, healthy ones in […]

alternate plans

Posted on 19 CommentsPosted in book reviews/events, designing, food and garden, projects

i know, it probably feels like i ditched you midstream last week—ack, sorry. we feel compelled this summer to take advantage of sunny days whenever we can get them and this weekend we had a wealth of fine, fine weather. while i still spent time on knitting each day, i ran out of time to write about it […]

reel me in

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sorry to be gone an extra day or two—we’ve had SUN here throughout the holiday weekend and into this week and well . . . david and i really needed to spend some time outdoors enjoying it. we did some awesome longer bike rides over the weekend; cycling is one of our favorite things to do together. […]

true blue

Posted on 26 CommentsPosted in spinning and fiber, yarn and dyeing

this land is your land, this land is my land from california to the new york island from the redwood forests the the gulf stream waters, this land was made for you and me. as i was walkin’ that ribbon of highway i saw above me that endless skyway. i saw below me that golden valley this land was made for […]