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Weird Veggies
I am firmly of the opinion that sustainable local eating requires more diversity in what is available locally. To that end, I am constantly experimenting with expanding the number of foods in my own backyard. I swear, one of these years I’m going to be successful with okra and melons. Today, however, the exotic food…
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My day’s work
I’ve been having some problems with my bee keeping. Last summer, I had a very significant swarm: which occurred just after a rain storm. In my hours-long quest to catch the swarm, or at very least figure out what was going on with the rest of the hive, I wound up staring down the barrel…
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Poem: Why
Why? Because I never want to have to admit That iPlayed while the Earth burned.
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My Luddite Ways
Let’s start with my first computer-action of the morning. I was uploading 35 MB of photos for another post… and I found myself thinking about my first summer job. I was hired for a summer to work at a nuclear plant, but, y’know, as a high school student, I didn’t really have any immediately relevant…
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Book review: Diabetes Rising
Diabetes Rising by Dan Hurley (Kaplan Publishing, January 2010) Let’s start this way: I picked this book up at random at the public library yesterday morning and finished it at 2 o’clock this afternoon, even though we had a ‘home sick’ day today. There might have been Backyardigans involved in the rapid read. I will…
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Climate Whining
Hey! For an interesting change of pace, it’s not about climate change. I’m just plain ol’ whining about my weather. I had to wear my winter coat yesterday on the 31st of May, while y’all were posting about your heat waves and beach trips, and I was a little chilly in the blustery wind. I…
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Poem: Headline
Headline (c. 2002) Through the slick-slack wipers, I see the transport ahead of me Fishtail. But what passes before my eyes Is not my life, but my Headline. And what does it say, this epitaph By which I will be known To the City of Toronto (if only for a day)? Scientist? Writer? Singer, lover…
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Poem : Forest Meditation
Partial perception, Mine, Hears a snake approach in a rustle of leaves and ! Startles The birch behind me Snakeless (like the rope) Laughing.
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Frugal by Habit
I got a really sweet love seat from Freecycle the other day, so I now have a nice looking sunroom for the bargain price of… oh, $6 of gas to run to town for the couch. Everything else was already in the room, but this was the key piece of furniture necessary to ‘anchor’ the…
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A Room of My Own!
This post is coming to you via the wireless network from my studio! My own room! Woo hoo!