Leigh form 5 Acres and a Dream awarded me the Honest Scrap Award. It’s my first award ever. These are the rules: Choose a minimum of 7 blogs to give this award to that you feel to be brilliant in content and design. That’s the toughest part. Show the 7 winner’s links on your blog …
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The Ever-Recurring Year
I was talking with a friend today and she mentioned my picture a while back of my canning pantry. She said she certainly understands the feeling of growing, harvesting, putting up and getting the firewood ready from her reading of the Little House on the Prairie books – which I admitted I have never read …
Independence Days, Week 6
The Indian summer came, went, and came again. Last Friday we hit 37 F – cutting it pretty close – but yesterday it was 70F. It’s going to get cold again soon, though. Plant. Moved (replanted) the 2 rhubarb plants, because in the end we chose their first bed as one of the beds to …
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 …
Independence Days, Week 3
Plant: Still waiting for the “Fall planting” seedlings (lettuce, spinach, chard, etc.) to graduate to planting-out size. “Unplanted” most of the tomato plants (one chilly day and night and they succumbed fully to the blight). Also planted sustainable lawn seed on our erosion-prone slope: curious about the result! Harvest: Finally harvested the first carrots (which …
Independence Days, Week 2 {reset}
{Reset} Since I started again last week, I’ll call this week 2. Plant: Transplanted mostly lettuce seedlings in the old potato bed, but I’m afraid they drowned in last week’s downpours; luckily I didn’t put in all of them, and I have many more waiting on the porch. I did drop a tray with mizuna …
Independence Days – Week… ahum…
So behind, it’s shameful. Forge ahead, anyway! Plant: Fall garden of spinach, kale, broccoli, purslane, various lettuce, chard, mizuna, mustard greens, all as seedlings, and in the ground peas, more green beans, chard and carrots. Harvest: chard, kale, cucumber, potatoes, various tomatoes, beans both green and dry. Preserve: apple* sauce, peaches* in syrup, tomato-apple* chutney, …
Things Afoot
My apologies for the spotty posting. We’ve had to cope with sickness – Amie and Mama last weekend and now Amie again. A dear friend of mine has also galvanized a project I had set aside as not fitting our current schedule: the communally oriented side of “Transition” (yes, the more I think about it, …
6. How Toddlers See Our Bodies? Play Dough Experiments
This is an article in the series “Drawing as it develops“, which includes a study of my daughter Amie’s drawings from 16 months onwards (this is the sixth article in that sequence), as well as Some Theory, Tips for teaching drawing to a very young child, and a growing bibliography. Amie at 23-24 months: representation? …
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A. Children’s Tadpole Drawings: Some Theory
This is an article in the series “Drawing as it develops“, which includes a sequence of my daughter Amie’s drawings from 16 months onwards, as well as Tips for teaching drawing to a very young child and a growing bibliography. In her book The Child as Thinker. The Development and Acquisition of Cognition in Childhood, …
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