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Riot for Austerity – Month 19-20

Well, it’s again 2 months since I calculated our last riot. I’ll average May and June. Last year’s averages (calculated here) are mentioned as a baseline. I use this calculator. Gasoline. 14.528 gallons per person (pp) in cars + 10 miles pp on public transport. 35 % of the US National Average (Last year’s yearly […]

Posted bykaatJune 30, 2010July 16, 2010Posted inRecent Riot Posts, reduce reuse recycle3 Comments on Riot for Austerity – Month 19-20

New Pots

I was very happy with how this session’s pots have turned out, especially the glazing. I never seem to have any inspiration when glazing. This time around I went for a common theme: turquoise (which is matte,  as I found out last time) overlaid with a clear glaze (which makes the whole thing shiny). Here […]

Posted bykaatJune 29, 2010June 29, 2010Posted inarts/crafts (grown-ups'), pottery2 Comments on New Pots

First Tomato

This should have been a joyous day, a glorious day. Instead there was cussing. I don’t often cuss, so it was shocking. What happened? The chipmunks got to the first tomato of the season. THE first tomato. The ICONIC tomato. The one you take a picture of: Its good side Its chipmunk side They also […]

Posted bykaatJune 25, 2010Posted infood (growing, cooking, preserving), garden, natural world7 Comments on First Tomato

My Camera Works Again

Feverfew Vervain Maltese Cross

Posted bykaatJune 23, 2010Posted ingarden, herbsLeave a comment on My Camera Works Again

A Fungal Soil

closer look (notice also the creepy crawly at the bottom – and the weeds):

Posted bykaatJune 23, 2010Posted infood (growing, cooking, preserving), garden, soil1 Comment on A Fungal Soil

Flowering, Ripening, Growing

I drive the speed limit and blink even when I’m the only one on the street. I pay my (one) credit card bill, my taxes, my library fines. I smile, I make peace, I don’t gossip or speak ill. But I am no goody two-shoes. I am the most subversive person I know. I grow […]

Posted bykaatJune 22, 2010June 23, 2010Posted infood (growing, cooking, preserving), future worries, garden, photographsLeave a comment on Flowering, Ripening, Growing

Finished!

Happy Summer! On this hot sunny day what did I do but seek out the two hottest areas of my garden. First, the compost bins. They looked pretty tame, on the surface. Then I stuck in my fork and woosh, the temperature rise was immediately apparent.  I  persisted, turning, consolidating and sifting out the finished […]

Posted bykaatJune 21, 2010June 23, 2010Posted incompost, compost tea, extract, garden, soil4 Comments on Finished!

Mite Count and Camera Trouble

Exactly three days after installing the sticky board underneath the hive, I pulled it out. Fascinating what’s all on that sticky board: dropped pollen, nectar, honey and propolis, dirt and dust, little insects and… varroa mites. Yes, there were mites, tiny fat disks a dark reddish brown, all of them stuck to the board and […]

Posted bykaatJune 17, 2010Posted inbees2 Comments on Mite Count and Camera Trouble

Honey Bee Stinging Bumble Bee

Bees coming in on the landing board The hive was getting very crowded, with 8 frames entirely built out, so today I added the second brood box. The colony should build out 10 new frames much faster than they did the previous 9 ones, because there are many more bees now, and the colony is […]

Posted bykaatJune 14, 2010Posted inbees2 Comments on Honey Bee Stinging Bumble Bee

Amie is Still an Artist

It’s been a while since I wrote about Amie’s art. This has become a garden (and beekeeping) blog, no doubt about it.  But while the blog has changed, in one respect Amie has not: she is still an artist. Ever since a boy at her preschool claimed that she is not, she has been working […]

Posted bykaatJune 13, 2010June 13, 2010Posted inarts/crafts (children's)5 Comments on Amie is Still an Artist

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