by Andi | Aug 31, 2014 | animals, chickens, Goats, Great Pyrenees, guineas, Meander
It’s been a busy few days around here – with prepping for our first showing yesterday and our home inspection on the new place. And this morning, we woke to find that the big sassafras behind the house had split off a huge limb that we must now chop up.... by Andi | Jun 29, 2014 | chickens, Garden, Workshops
A few years ago, a beautiful friend asked me to house sit for her while she and her family went away. At the time, I was living in San Francisco, and her place is in Mendocino, so I drove up into the “real” Northern California and arrived at this... by Andi | Jun 26, 2014 | animals, chickens, Garden, Goats, Great Pyrenees, guineas, Meander
I saw them the other day, and it was like I had new eyes – fields and fields of wildflowers, growing just beside the roads I drive all the time. Queen Anne’s Lace and Black Eyed Susans. Cornflowers sprouting from gravel and dancing in the whish of... by Andi | Jun 22, 2014 | animals, chickens, Garden, Goats, Great Pyrenees, guineas, Workshop
And I taste in my natural appetite the bond of live things everywhere. – from “cutting greens” by Lucille Clifton I don’t know what this place feels like to you. . . but for me, this place – where things seem to be coming together just as... by Andi | Jun 15, 2014 | chickens, Goats, Great Pyrenees, guineas
Just now, the sky above the farmhouse and the mountains is that light blue of dawn. Jet streams crisscross the air, like pilot werecrafting a tic-tac-toe board for the residents of Lovingston. It’s a lovely day. The sun has just peaked over the eastern...