Over the weekend it started. The non-stop tiny patter-patter of black specks raining down from on high. You stand still and listen and it sounds like fizzing. We thought they were seeds on the patio, as much as possible under the umbrella, and didn’t think much of it, except : what fecundity! Billions of seeds! …
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Beekeeper’s Treasure
About a month ago a man calls me up on the phone. “You’re a hard person to find!” is the first thing he says to me! “So how did you find me then?” is the first thing I say to him (after “hello?”). “Librarian.” So I knew it was about bees. Bob is an elderly …
Garden after Planting Beans
I planted all the dry beans in between sprinkles of rain. The perfect day: overcast, a little cool, the promise of rain. All but three beds are now occupied: squashes, zukes and cukes and tomatoes, peppers and eggplants still need to go in. And potatoes.
Hornet’s Eggs
Today we took the floppy plastic off the hoop house. We want to re-bend the hoops, because most of them have un-bent themselves so much that at the top they meet in a point, which cuts into the plastic. But we’ll only do that next weekend. In the intervening week I hope the rain will …
Visit to the deCordoba Museum
The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is situated in Lincoln, the town to the north of us. Still, though it is only a twenty minute drive away, I had in all the years of living here never gone there until my friend A managed to pry me off my mountain and out of my town …
Is a Quick Update Even Possible?
My last blogpost worth that name is from March 14, and I haven’t figured our Riot since December last year. One of the reasons for my silence was overall business (explained below), but the main culprit was that all the sites I maintain were hacked (same server). We had to shut down the Green Team …
All is Well: Website Trouble
hi everyone. All is well here, except for website trouble and difficulty posting. We’re working on it. You can expect a long make-up post, coming soon!
First Seeds of 2014 are In
Amie and I finally cleaned the seedling containers, then fired up the heat mat and the lamps in the basement and sowed seeds. We’re a little late. Last year I put in the first seeds on Feb 24. We sowed: lettuce mache chard kale spinach onions leeks I need to order some seeds: celery, parsley, …
Spring?
This has been/still is a hard winter. It’s been one snow storm after another, with long stretches of below freezing temperatures. Â Three weeks ago I caught a bug which developed into pneumonia – hence the silence here – and now that I’ finally up and about, Amie caught something as well. That’s how it goes. …
My house is on fire
My house is on fire. It took me a while to realize it and I’m still not doing much about it, but there are good reasons for that. For one, my house is really too big for me. All the water pipes, the heating systems, the gas and electricity lines… they’re all over the place, …