Ten Things Tuesday: Garden Manifesto

My garden calls to me.
During the time BEFORE I can safely plant without dooming plants to die of frost, I am making plans to eliminate some of the things that caused setbacks last year. which really prevented the kinds of success we were hoping for.
1. Hardwood sawdust and chipped nasty invasive autumn olive trees are [...]

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Enviromental Awareness

Some of us walk obliviously through our worlds.
These people are not deficient necessarily, it’s just that they don’t pay much attention to their immediate surroundings. Walls have a tendency to leap up and smack these otherwise occupied folks and often, they can trip repeatedly over the same permanent fixtures in their homes.  Is it too much [...]

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Blogging from Montreal

I moved out of my parents’ house a very long time ago.
That aside I still come back fairly often to visit and more often than not, I inhabit my old room. It still has the grass wall paper, the posters of Amsterdam and of London , but none of my old furniture except my battered [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday – Picnic Day

A cool wind blows over the bay, caressing the complaining children huddling under polar fleece.
“Mom! It’s too cold. WHY’re we having a picnic TODAY??”
Well, dearies, I would respond if the above were a conversation that occurred anywhere except my head, it’s spring, a beautiful sunny day and if you’re that cold, get your butts [...]

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Instinct over intellect

I am not sure what it is about the human mind that it can sometimes shut off when faced with moments of the perception of necessary action, but yesterday I ended up injuring myself in order to stop the dog from getting out the front door.
We had just arrived home from a shopping excursion with [...]

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F-F Friday *amended*

I have one ferkakte (Yiddish origin: Shitty, crappy. A variant spelling of verkakte, which is the correct spelling of the Yiddish word. Not used in polite company. Used to imply disdain for the person or thing referenced) daffodil that has decided to bloom this year.
This is not MY daffodil, my lone sunshine-y floral scout for [...]

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Ten Things post Tax Day Wednesday

Crapity crap, I’m going to have to brave the hordes at the post office today because despite all the best intentions to file WELL before today, we didn’t.

It’s beautiful and sunny and warming outside but I’m not fooled: I KNOW that it’ll snow at least once more before we’re done; the memory of the May [...]

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Randomness Meme

Also called “Bit of Everything Meme,” this was stolen, with thanks, from Tense Teacher.
Do you have any special talents?
I have a good ear for accents and my favorite is a Scots accent, which I have been told (when I was overheard by a Scotsman – AFTER I recovered from a cringe/blush cyclic reaction) was [...]

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Silver Panacea

Yesterday morning began with my taking Bob’s Prius from my blink-and-you’ll -miss-it town 45 minutes away to the nearest biggish city to meet my old friend (it is the friendship that is old, not my friend) Naturedoc for lunch. We’ve known one another since we were undergrads at McGill University 21 years ago (gah) [...]

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Photo Friday

As winter shifts into spring, the canvas of color and texture out my door continues its dramatic seasonal movements.  This was the scene last Friday, when 7 more inches of snow arrived, continuing an unbroken snow onslaught that has lasted here in the Northeast for 19 weeks.

Here is life reawakening: lady’s mantle and Califronia poppies are putting [...]

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