Frozen Ground

It seems odd to be planning a garden when it is so very cold outside.  Right now, the ground is frozen solid. I could not even put a seed in the ground if I wanted to . . . but soon, within weeks, we will need to have lettuce in the ground, spinach started, peas to...

The Barn

I stood in the hollow Dad has made for the barn today as I dumped the compost – including a whole cabbage gone a little blue-gray in it’s fridge time since November – and let myself rest there a bit. I can’t quite picture it – this barn,...

Snow Day (I Hope)

January 17, 2013 The predictions have ranged from 2 inches to 12 but everyone seems fairly certain we’re going to get snow.  I’m so excited . . . AND I’ll be even more excited if it takes the power out – or at least the internet out –...

$10 Jeans

Last week, I bought a $10 pair of jeans.  P and I were at Tractor Supply checking out goat fencing, and I saw this great pair of overalls – I love me some overalls – but they were $40, and well, $40 right now is a couple weeks worth of groceries. So I went...

Gray Day: On Mom and Grandpa

Across the way, clouds are swinging down the mountain, covering them, shrouding them with softness.  I need this today.  North of here, my grandfather is in the hospital.  It’s my cliched instinct to write that he is fighting for his life, but I’m not sure...