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Chicken Coop Progress Pics
For now, I am just posting a quick update. In the middle of the week, I decided to start building the coop on my own. I spent a couple hours doing sketches (trying to be responsible), but the plans kept changing as I was trying to work with materials already on hand. I ended up having to buy a new sheet of plywood and several 2x4s. The walls are now mostly framed out. Joe and I rotated the coop and…
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Mental Snapshots
This is one of those mornings I want to remember, not for the significance of events, but for the normalcy of it all, for the love and humor and the way I feel. Some days life is passing by at a blurring pace, and I get worried I’m failing to set memories. So here I am taking a mental snapshot of motherhood and life. First, my boys were in so much pain this morning. Not fun. Definitely amusing. Last night…
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Glass Gem Corn
Glass Gem Corn, original photo from nativeseeds.org Browsing Pinterest, sometimes I come across photos of plants that I think simply can’t be real, as was the case with Glass Gem corn. However the picture above is real corn that has only recently been reintroduced to the public. Seed collecting is a fun hobby, but there are people who make it their mission to preserve native seeds for posterity as a way of preserving biodiversity and culture, which, with the influx…
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Renee's Makes My Day
Guess what came in the mail today… If you looked at the picture below and guessed seeds, you’d be correct. For the past several years I’ve been growing with Renee’s Garden Seeds, and each year I get a mailer introducing new varieties. Tomorrow I will find a spot for these “Chantenay Carrots“, but right now I want to highlight my favorites – the ones I have grown year after year. I’m not going to elaborate on them because Renee’s recently…
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Garden Update
Over the past few weeks I have worked old garden beds, erected domes for sugar snap peas and relocated hoards of rudbekia volunteers to other areas of the yard. I took a trip out to Home Depot and picked up several bags of organic garden soil that were on clearance, a big block of peat moss and a jug of fish emulsion for the garlic and onions. With the soil now rich and fluffy, limed and smoothed over, it is…
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Hand Building Project: Lace Imprint Casserole
One of the simplest and most rewarding clay pieces I make is a lace imprint casserole dish. This particular piece is eventually headed to my brother. Steps to creating a lace imprint casserole dish: I took a Pyrex style glass casserole dish and created a plaster mold from it. Be prepared that due to shrinking in the kiln, the piece you end up creating from a plaster mold will be smaller than the original piece it is cast…