Spring is limping along, our little patch of earth is trying to awaken, grass is slowly turning green. The birds have returned and are busy building nests with a treasure-trove of materials our little farm has to offer – straw, hay, and warm, cozy bits of wool and llama fiber. Spring planting for local farmers [...]
Archive for the ‘Random thoughts’ Category
15 Jan
Thanks for the Kind Thoughts! I am On the Mend…
A quick update – I went to the doctor, who diagnosed bronchitis. I also received a lesson in WHY I should use my daily steroid inhaler – even though I have very infrequent asthma symptoms. I don’t regularly use the steroid inhaler because it gives me mouth sores, no matter how well I rinse my [...]
10 Jan
I Need Some Cheer!
I have yet another head cold this winter. This is my fourth cold since November. Usually, I get one or two head colds during the winter. I don’t know what is different this year. I take a multivitamin and have been eating more fruits and veggies than in the past. And these colds have knocked [...]
1 Jan
I’m Posting Every Week in 2011!
I’ve decided I want to blog more. Rather than just thinking about doing it, I’m starting right now. I will be posting on this blog once a week, perhaps more often, for all of 2011. The posts really dropped off the last few months of 2010. I found it was just consuming [...]
30 Dec
A Thought Provoking Blog
I stumbled across this blog on WordPress tonight. It was a very interesting read. The Fiber Shed Challenge In 2010, I was hoping to “eat local” but didn’t make a very genuine effort. I hope to do better this year. The Fiber Shed Challenge goes another step toward becoming a “locavore” – in a different [...]
4 Jul
Red, White, and Blue (via Owning Kristina)
This post is for our son John, who is currently serving in Afghanistan. Happy 4th of July, John. We love you and are so proud. You are an amazing young man! This is a photo of our son John. Recently, he was injured by an IED blast. Thank God, he is okay – he has [...]
25 Jun
Friday’s Farm Photo
I love taking photos on the farm – its seasonal landscape, the ever-changing sky, the weathering of the century-old barn, the slow decay of long-abandoned machinery. And more often than not, I find my camera lens focused on one of our critters – the lambs, sheep or llamas. They are endlessly energetic, perfectly photogenic, and [...]
9 Jun
BP, Boycotts and the Free Market (via The Ve Magni)
I have linked to another WordPress blog post which is a very well written piece of work. The link is at the bottom of the page, but first a few thoughts of my own. In the early days of the oil spill, I kept thinking that as unfortunate and environmentally horrible as this disaster is, [...]
