I have been puttering. I decided I wanted to clean up my kitchen a little bit, so I was putting the leaves from the dried nettles into glass jars. I filled two gallon jars with them ( Read more... )

I'm spent. I have just finished mowing the rest of the lawn. Well, sunrise hillside and the perennial slope, the shelter and Everfar Labyrinth are done I did them this morning. I did a little at the top of wildflower hillside, but not much, though I did do the path up and the path down as well as across the top ( Read more... )

I called Mom to check in with her. They're having a thunderstorm down there at the moment. Abey played Classical Gas by Eric Clapton on the guitar. It sounds really nice. It's pretty overcast here. I covered up the nettles which are drying on the fridge and the rack alongside it at the tempo ( Read more... )

Barbara saved some of the nettles around the edges of her yard for me to harvest. Last year she had a big patch, which I traded a year's supply of soap for ( Read more... )

I need to go over to Barbara's and harvest her nettles today. I'd rather go kayaking. I'm pretty tired. Kayaking would be lots more fun. Perhaps I can do both. I have to pick up Abraham at 4 pm from band. I was going to go to the chiropractor, but now I don't think I need to. I should go over to Alida's though and tell her that. I guess ( Read more... )

I am SOOOOO blessed to have had the idea and the poles and the discarded framed windows to create this tipi. It is so lovely that it is all windows. I don't like the parts which are covered up. It's such a blessing to have windows ( Read more... )

I made two videos of taking the stems and grass out of the dried nettles. The first was 12 minutes long, so I made the second one instead. I was working on it in the kitchen but then decided it would be nice to do it outside in the screened in shelter ( Read more... )

I took the plastic lined garbage can to the glass tipi and looked over the millions of nettle plants. They were on every chair, on the long bed bottom frame and on the ground ( Read more... )

Sunday, may 31, 2009 ( Read more... )

I have been over at Barb's cutting her nettles with my cutter leg and foot. It worked great. I need to bundle the nettles and hang them up. I haven't got anywhere to hang them that is what I need though ( Read more... )