Well, I survived yet another week as a student teacher, taught at least two classes each day, taught all of them a couple of days. With a cold… that turned into the flu. Oh well. Life as a teacher, right? Took today as easy as I could in hopes of feeling 100% tomorrow so I […]
Tag: garden
Garden Update
So, the squash continue to grow well, and the pumpkins seem to not be falling off quite so rapidly since I added calcium carbonate. I think there is hope for a small, late crop. Today, Tom and the elder stidkid worked very hard in the garden this morning while I was working on schoolwork (yes, […]
What we saw today…
Sure enough. There they were. Two of them. Large as … well, life! At least eighteen inches top to tail, probably more. We couldn’t get very close.
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 […]
February…
For a month now, I have noticed the catkins on the hazelnut (filbert) bushes in the yard. They have been a bright spot in the landscape. The witchhazel flowers have greeted me as I have gone in and out the front door, and now I notice swelling buds on the red-flowering currants again. I haven’t […]
Almost Over…
The meeting is officially over as of yesterday evening. The actual lecture part was over the evening before that. The trip up the mountain was not what we expected. One of our five vans broke down, necessitating one driver and another person making unplanned trips back down with an extra load or to return with […]
Finally, JAM!
I finally had a chance to use the lovely jam pot my parents bought me on their last trip to France: forged in a shop hundreds of years old, copper with steel (I think) handles. Don’t the plums from our tree look lovely in it? And here is a shot from the middle of the […]
Small changes, time and plants
I first posted this to the class website, then thought perhaps a short update was also due, here. A few weeks ago, I heard a glorious birdsong which I had never heard in my yard. And the songbird was in a tree only 40 ft from me. Still not sure what it was, perhaps a […]
Pictures for Earth Day
The elder stidkid took these lovely pics for me about two weeks ago, but I was saving them for today. Here are some of the pretty sights in the yard — all non-native. There is often a lot of bad news coverage about the earth: climate change, habitat devastation, natural disasters. It is good to […]
Spring Approacheth (but don’t get too excited yet)
There are now some lovely little “English daisies” (Bellis perennis) coming up in the lawn in places, their fuschia-and-white blooms contrasting nicely with the bright yellow of the dandelions (I like to think of the latter as droplets of sunlight rather than weeds). I can see trillium beginning to unfurl in the back, but can’t […]