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Spring creeps, early this year, though no doubt with even earlier springs to come.
It's odd, planting an ochard in the face of climate change: I plant trees that don't thrive here, not quite yet, but will thrive, after much devastation has already struck elsewhere. It's forward-thinking, in a way, but also feels dirty, resigned, calculating. Not ( Read more... ) -
Grill
The legs fell off the gril a few years ago and I buried it in the ground. I still cook on it. Just in the ground ( Read more... ) -
secret rules
The other day I was reminding the boys to get an adult if there's a dispute between them (instead of fighting). As usual, I received an objection ( Read more... ) -
Winter
The winter has been colder than usual. The sheep like the snow, and tend to play more games when it's cold. Though they are all ewes, they play at head-butting and ramming, and it is always funny to see one back up for a charge, and to have the others half-heartedly scatter, not wanting to be hit but also knowing their sister runs in jest ( Read more... ) -
Hawaii
I had a dream that I went to Hawaii.
The trip was made with reluctance; a friend insisted. My discilination was well-founded, for the Hawaii of my dreams was a ruin. It was dry, hot, and polluted. The streets were crowded with people on bicycles. Dilapidated buildings in a neoclassical style hung over the streets, which were home to troupes troops ( Read more... ) -
The Friend
For the last two weeks, a juvenile hawk has been hunting the same patch of woods as I have. In the summer, when he was very young, I would sometimes see him catching praying mantises in the orchard. Prior to then, I hadn't known that hawks sought insects. But now he's moved into the forest ( Read more... ) -
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A large snake just crawled into my office. Do snakes "crawl"? I suppose it slithered. I almost left him -- cold weather is coming and the mice will invade -- but was worried he might get lost, die, and putrify in some inaccessible place. I relocated him to the garden ( Read more... ) -
Apples
I hate apples ( Read more... ) -
brats
S.L. was away doing science. Took the kids out into the woods and made dinner. Penne carbonara ( Read more... ) -
Horsist
The other day we were reading a book about horses. There were some pictures of baby horses in it ( Read more... )