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  • Learning about RAWMI. A raw milk seminar

    Yes, yes, I don’t have goats – yet! Why let that prevent me from learning, eh?! Last Sunday I attended a raw milk seminar sponsored by The Raw Milk Institute (RAWMI) and the BC Herdshare Association. The speakers were Mark McAfee and Sarah Smith of RAWMI and local Herdshare community members. Up to this point, Read more

  • Quick vid of the ducks

    The ducks give me immense joy. They’re fun, endearing creatures. Read more

  • Photo slide-show catch-up!

    Where did Spring and Summer go? Here’s a photo catch-up!   Read more

  • A gardening yardstick. Or, my earliest garden memory.

            This is the garden of my early childhood. To me, its herbaceous border stretched forever. At the end of the garden stood a weeping willow which seemed taller and grander than the one in the photo. One year, much to the horror of our mothers, Anthony and I climbed to the Read more

  • Barbie Dolls to rabbits. My journey down the garden path.

    Or, dredging the past, digging up s—t, oops, manure, and dolly to rabbit? My mother gave up dressing me in anything with lace. I’d liberate my clothing of the scratchy, hateful stuff, usually found on collars and cuffs. Similarly, after the age of six, I never received another doll, Barbie or otherwise. I traded my Read more

  • A week of crazy weather

    Well, that was a whacky week! Sunday night it began to snow and I awoke to close to a foot of snow on Monday morning. Roo delighted in shoveling and rooting about for his ball in the snow. Ever obsessed, he wants me to, “Throw the ball!” The Garden: It is obvious the broad beans Read more