Last Sunday, it rained. The day was gray, humid to a point, and the overcast made everything seem bluer than normal. I worked on refinishing some picnic furniture, getting a coat of polyurethane on to help it make it through a few more years. As the day wore on, the clouds lowered, settling in near […]
Category: health
Garden: A week of progress
Almost every day this week we made significant progress somewhere in the garden. Yesterday, it was finishing the flowerbed that defines the parking space in front of the house. It holds a variegated St. John’s Wort, a Japanese Maple (which appears to be dwarf), and a Witchhazel, along with a few flowers (glads and a […]
Garden Talk
I have a garden, a yard, an orchard, flower beds, lawns and woods. There is a marshy area down by the road that I call a “seasonal water feature.” Some years it’s soggy later than others. There is a “sacred grove” of cedars and maples that I protected from clearing when we bought the place, […]
Poem A Day April 26, 2012
cholecalciferol standing-straight in the sun seeking the warmth finding the light you made your own strength sitting-low in the office huddled over the desk flourescents flickering your weakness company profits We are surprisingly fragile creatures, we humans. As any engineer knows, the more complex the design the more likely something will fail — something important. […]
Progress in the garden
I am making progress in the yard. I work about twenty minutes at a time, and I go slowly, but I am working faster and getting more done each time. Here are before and after shots of the little hedge in front of the large fig. I didn’t prune last year, and it was very […]
Poem a Day April 2, 2012
Hemoglobin (suggested by Grant) Like a gift I wrap the iron securely in a net tightly bound in the red blood cells reaching for oxygen special delivery to your cells respirator antioxidant micro-carrier of life Yes, this is the molecule that makes red blood cells red and takes oxygen up to the brain. It also […]
Doing good things…
I saw a flyer for Project Healing Waters while I was in a local shop today. Please give this organization a look — it is such a kind thing to do for people who have suffered in service to their nation. People with injuries from military action can struggle to regain a sense of peace […]
Sometimes, a little bit of publicity can save a life
And if my half-dozen readers aren’t “a little bit” I don’t know what is! I was alerted to a pressing need for a bone marrow donor through Seth Godin’s blog. Here is the post that caught my attention: Eliminating the impulse to stall. And here is the website for Amit Gupta who desperately needs a […]
Garden Update
Okay, so I walked through the garden yesterday and today. ALL the plums are gone from the plum tree. All of them. I harvested two (of the several dozen that were there) a couple weeks ago, and now ALL of them have been eaten. Presumptive culprits: deer, raccoons, crows. I am not a happy camper. […]
Year-End Wrap-Up
Well. It was a LONG school year for me. And now it is over. I am apparently continuing in the program, and have a student teaching assignment lined up for next year! I will meet with my mentor teacher next week. The end result of the actual teaching in the school I was doing my […]