The bees are coming, and we’re ready for them. We spent the weekend putting the finishing touches on the hives and creating some wind-breaks that won’t blow over in our sometimes 75-mph gusts. We painted the hive a light yellow. The paint is necessary to seal the wood, but it has to be a light [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dog’
5 Apr
New Schedule
It’s been a little tough getting used to our new schedule, but hopefully everything will begin to fall into place. Last week was my first week back at school, but with the added 2 1/2 hour commute each way (well, 2 1/2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the afternoon). I’m doing my best [...]
29 Mar
Finished!
We finally got the garden boxes finished. We dug the 6′ x 6′ holes, stapled gopher wire to the bottom of the boxes, and filled them back in with a combination of amended soil: 50% of our own soil (which tends toward clay soil), 25% green manure, and 25% bumper crop compost. It was a [...]
17 Mar
Knee Day
A couple of years ago St. Patrick’s Day ceased to be a day for green beer and pinching–at least in our family. March 17, 2008 changed the course of events in our calendar, overwriting St. Patty for the evermore infamous “Knee Day.” This was the day of my second ACL reconstruction. The final ACL reconstruction, [...]
25 Feb
Stitches and Cones
Sometimes Sugar gets what we lovingly call “The Crazies.” When she gets The Crazies, she begins running full speed in whatever direction she is facing until she meets an obstacle (like the edge of our property). Then she’ll stop in a way that resembles a skier at the bottom of a hill, dirt flying everywhere, [...]
10 Feb
The Hillside
The other day I was taking Sugar out to the backyard for a break from housework and a little fun throwing ball. As soon as we stepped out the back door, her ears perked up and her back arched. She stood at full attention, eyes fixed on the hillside. The air was still and [...]
26 Jan
I Love Having a Dog
Sugar is settling in nicely, and we’re slowly beginning to understand how different it is to be responsible for a dog than it is to be responsible for a cat. Our dog is a lovely, happy, super-energetic little thing, but boy does she demand our attention! And so we’ve settled into a different pace of [...]
6 Jan
Planes, Demolition, and Sugar
Hey folks! Happy New Year. I feel ashamed that it’s taken me this long to get back into the swing of things, but so it is. We had a wonderful time in New Jersey, and arrived back in California stuffed full of homemade cookies and lots of love. It’s good to have such amazing [...]
Just a joyful Catholic girl trying to live as simply and consciously and gratefully as possible in this beautiful, amazing world...and bringing as many as possible along for the ride.
