30 November 2010

Bubbling brain

My brain is bubbling over with researches related to: Straw Bale Construction, a home built round houseCeltic Round Houseswillows that I would like to grow, and nut trees to buy and plant. I also sewed up some heat pads from flannel, about 8" x 15", and filled their pockets with beans, and stitched them shut. Microwaved, or heated in the oven while baking, and they make WONDERFUL foot warmers, hand warmers, or backwarmers.

The sidewalk garden needs some attention, but the kale, chives, comfrey, and Rose Campion all made it through the cold (as did I).

Gotta love youtube. Fix-it videos gave me what I needed for myself and my daughter to fix my clothes dryer together. When you've never seen it's guts, it is rather scary to contemplate surgery.

22 November 2010

I am glad I no longer live where snow comes and stays, and melts a little bit and freezes, and MORE comes. Here, I can enjoy the snow on the evergreen trees and covering the browned grasses. I can watch my silly dog roll in it, shake it off, and roll in it again. My granddaughter learned to throw snowballs yesterday. But I can still go out and pick Swiss Chard and Kale, and there are still hardy crops, such as the Brussels Sprouts, coming out of the ground at the farm to nourish us. I love this region that I inhabit.

02 November 2010

Cope, and cope some more.

I keep surviving. Will be trying to fix the clothes drier today, as it is now too cool to dry things hanging up anywhere. But that hasn't stopped D. So all the dishtowels, his clothes, etc., now smell of mildew, as he washed them and hung them in the living room to dry. Which took about 3 days.

The first guerrilla garden is doing all right. The kale and chives are doing wonderfully.

Reading about tree bogs, humanure, and have spotted a wonderful house.


I could build something like this, I bet! Harvest trees from the property. I have done a little bit of chiseling joints in wood. Happiness!