A Whole New Way to Knit
February 18, 2020
A long long day on very little sleep. On the cusp of discovery. Brilliant blue skies over the greening mountains. Downpour in the valley to the north. A long walk in too-old socks with an unbalanced load.` Farewell to my Read more…
February 12, 2020
red flag warningi write a large checkto the generator repairman crispy vegetationi put a large jug of salt waterin the freezer winds from the diablosi carefully cleanthe hurricane lamps shutdown noticesthe texts and the emailsarrive at the same time hazy Read more…
August 31, 2019
It’s late August and hot, and I’m already looking forward to summer. This summer has been as light and cheerful as wet cement. Spring and early summer were late, and we never got the long, warm June/July days with the Read more…
August 23, 2019
Sometimes you skim over the surface of life, like a dragonfly cruising in the sunshine. The breeze lifts you where you want to go, and everything you need for the good life is bountiful and at hand. You bask in Read more…
June 11, 2019
last weekwe all had coldsthe weather was unseasonably cool we laid light blanketson our laps in the eveningsand huddled at night inour flannel sheets we sipped tea and homemade chicken soup, coughed, blew our noses and shook our heads at such Read more…
May 3, 2019
Garry offered the birds some leftover parsley. The budgies immediately started eating it (they do love their greens). The zebra finches handled the new introduction in true zebra fashion. Inky Pie got the bright idea that he could haul the Read more…
February 15, 2019
It started as a joke. Valentine’s Day never jazzed me. The Monterey Bay Aquarium did, but it was always thronged with human beings. One year, about 20 years ago, I got the idea to take my kids to the Monterey Read more…
September 20, 2018
Tracking things, making things, and learning things are three of my favorite things to do. We got a new weather station (available on Weather Underground) in December. Unlike our former weather station, all of the sensors in this station are Read more…
September 19, 2018
We’ve lived in this house for 32 years. When we first moved in, all of the local squirrels were California gray squirrels. Eastern fox squirrels were muscling in to many California habitats, but they hadn’t arrived here yet. Fox squirrels Read more…
July 15, 2018
We’ve lived in this place in the forest for 32 years. We never saw a Wilson’s warbler long enough to identify it until last year when we found a stunned female Wilson’s warbler in the road. I held her until Read more…
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