Amie’s drawing is becoming more complex and colorful every day. Something must have pushed her onwards. It’s amazing! Let’s see if Mama can keep up with the developments this time. Click on the pics to see them larger and also go to the Flickr set with Amie’s art work to see tags and notes; also …
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Canning, Girl
This is what happens when “Mama spends too much time in the kitchen canning!” (Canned green beans, pickled cucumbers, peach pie filling.)
New Drawings: Events, Spatial Relations and Colors
It’s been a while since I reported on Amie’s art work (she just turned four). Since the burst of creativity when Amie’s grandmother was here, she has been more interested in imaginary play and playing outside. Lately though she has been sitting down to draw for long stretches of time, all of her own accord. …
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Independence Day, Week 5 – and Winter Garden
Independence Days was somewhat hindered by a sorry head cold, but here’s what I did before – Ah——tshoo! Rhubarb Plant. Two 1-year-old rhubarbĂ‚Â plants: I know it’s not the season to plant them, but they look very healthy and were cheap so it’s worth experimenting. Seedlings are still patiently waiting for the hoop house. Harvest …
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Lifestyle Changes
Wow, Sharon has another great blog entry up: Dreaming a Life, about radical lifestyle changes – “whether they come from adapting to a deeply damaged climate or from addressing the crisis, whether they come from adapting to depletion or from enduring it.” Sharon points out that much of the political unrest we are seeing comes …
Creative Itches
Amie came home from school with a cold on Friday, I kept her home this morning, but she’ll be going back to school tomorrow. But I also got it. Runny nose, sneezies, ringing ears, head ache – o please let me be better by the morrow! It is especially annoying because I couldn’t make it …
Look What’s On the Cover of Nature!
It’s one of my potatoes! From the summary: “hytophthora infestans is a fungus-like eukaryote and the most destructive pathogen of potato, with current annual worldwide potato crop losses due to late blight estimated at $6.7 billion.”
The Whole Mama
Life is sweet. In the mornings when Amie is at preschool I rewrite my book. It’s rather good, if I may say so myself, at least, I like it… In the afternoons Amie and I play, read and make art. We do our chores: filling the buckets with rain water, tending to the garden, canning, …
Independence Days, Week 4
Amie draws worms and a little girl watering the grass with the complete and barely-used artists set found at the landfill. Mm, something else seems to have come along from the landfill (click to enlarge) (*) Warning: there’s a lot of “didn’t do” this week – it’s been a bit of a down-week… Plant: Amie …
Next Year’s Summer Garden
Here’s another TO-DO list, of sorts. Keeps me organized and accountable. Ahum… What I didn’t have this spring and summer and want next summer broccoli (was too late on this one) peas (ditto) green and red peppers (ditto) some hot peppers onions (tried but failed: all rotted in the wet) squash (tried but failed: lots …