First Snow and Zero Waste Update

October 12, 2019

Today brought the first snow of the season. No, it is not much snow, and it will not stick, but …

Winding Down in the Garden

September 28, 2019

While the temperature is still all over the place—a few days hot, a few cold, then a hot day, and …

March 31, 2019

There is still ice on the lakes and patches of snow in shady corners, but spring is here. Melody Maple …

December 30, 2018

I could not help myself when the Baker Creek Heirloom Seed catalog arrived. I ordered a few more seeds for …

November 25, 2018

The Dashwoods are two and a half years old now and Marianne has the distinction of being the first of …

November 23, 2018

I did not mean to disappear from blogworld for so long. Between the run-up to November elections—in Minnesota we were …

April 22, 2018

The sound this week was drip, drip, drip as all the snow from the blizzard started melting. That is the …

April 17, 2018

We are finally mostly dug out from the blizzard over the weekend. That was a bit of a surprise, let …

January 14, 2018

We had a lovely few days of thaw this last week only to be plunged back into the Arctic depths …