Wool and Spice

I was going through my draft folder this weekend, cleaning up some debris. I was surprised by what I found that I hadn’t told you about.  Look at what you missed:

Last summer, the contractor got his backhoe stuck in one of our ponds during a dredging and reconstruction project. I have a ton of photos [...]

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This spring when we were setting up our garden plots we experimented with straw bale gardens on two of the beds.
We built the first straw bale bed because it sounded like a cool idea. We planted watermelon, a pepper, basil and a tomato plant here with sweet potatoes in the middle.
We built the second straw [...]

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There’s one pissed-off tom cat in a cage on my deck. It’s been a week of strategic planning in this battle to get Teddy some health care. Right when I was ready to set the trap he stopped showing up regularly so it threw my schedule off.  Then he absolutely refused to eat the food [...]

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I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been feeding a stray cat for about 18 months. Teddy first showed up in the middle of winter, skinny and starving. Completely feral, no matter how hungry he was, I couldn’t approach him. In the past, I’ve chased away stray cats, fearful of disease spreading to our two house cats. [...]

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When I saw this week’s topic I panicked. I’m supposed to have a reading list? Who knew? I wondered who could be that organized, particularly in summer and with gardening and the Tour de Fleece looming.
So it’s a good thing it’s Tuesday because it forced me to come up with 10 books on my [...]

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Let’s talk gardening because there’s been more of that going on around here than anything else. I’d like a record of what Evie and I did this spring, so bear with me.
We started with two 5 x 20 foot plots in the community garden at a former college soccer field. We decided to put two [...]

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ETA: to add links I was too lazy to do yesterday and clarify a point here and there.
It seems like a century since I was last here.
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The travels for health and pleasure are finished for a while. Jack has been checked out tip to toe and the upshot is he’ll be a woodworker [...]

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Peas have sprouted in the deck box! Woo!
There’s no spinning and very little knitting going on, every spare moment is spent either in the house  garden or up at the community garden. Or else I’m reading about gardening or surfing the net looking for plants, products or seeds. Spring fever has mellowed under the load [...]

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Have you seen this? It’s a weight scale connected to the Internet so you can automatically share how much you weigh with the world. Not just pounds either, but how much of that is fat vs lean and your BMI (body mass index).
Once again, I am bewildered by the need to broadcast our most intimate [...]

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Doesn’t this look like a whole bunch of zombies are just going to rise up and eat your brainz? If you turn you head just so, you’d swear you can see an arm break through the dirt with the fingers stretching up to the sky.
Maybe not.
Maybe it’s just too many hours in front of a [...]

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