Live Blogging Thursday
Hi Thursday. I’ve been off in my own world lately, doing things. One of the things I have been doing is trying to sort out some issues with my blog and the funky charset issues that occurred with an upgrade to a newer version of Wordpress. As a result I’ve been going through my archives, [...]
And still to persist stubbornly
These are days of thunder, of quivering rain-soaked leaves, of things starting out one way and ending another. Expectations are for fools: the bright shiny bits of tinfoil that trick the crows with their dark feathers and bright eyes to plummet towards the ground.
We see ten crows, a murder, when we go for a [...]
Media Habits
Wednesday. When I type that word I think of fifth grade, of the yellow lined paper I used to practice spelling it on in loopy cursive, Wed-nes-day. I still say it that way in my head when I write it out.
Funny how certain things stick and others evaporate in a second. Just as I [...]
Already here
A little bit of photo booth goofiness for your Wednesday. It’s how we started our morning, at the counter and on the couch smooching and giggling, me and my two boys. (Don’t you just love Bean’s little broccoli top?)
It is already mid June. I can’t believe it really. How the time blurs once the days [...]
Hmmmm
Skunks. Dear lord, the skunks. What to do about a skunk living potentially under one’s house? There seems to be no clever, scentless way to remove them from one’s life. Two days ago we found one IN the chicken coop eating corn off the floor at dusk. DH threw rocks at it, missed of [...]
This.
Yesterday, this: four miles.
We ran with the sun on our faces, the air heavy and sweet with cut grass and the last of the lilacs, ferns everywhere like green paper cutouts along the roadside. The ground was damp, the gravel singing underfoot. Four miles and I could feel my quads loosen, my legs [...]
Today more coffee.
Today not enough sleep. We need bananas, paper towels, bread. The dishwasher needs unloading. It always astounds me how life keeps coming back to these things. To bread and dishes. To sleep. To love.
Today I sit on the couch and press my nose into that warm place behind Sprout’s tiny ear and whisper. I [...]
Hello June.
June is one of my favorite months: cloud-torn skies, hail, thunderstorms, and sudden rainbows above the wet curled ferns and the newly shorn woolly backs of sheep, their noses black and soft like crumpled velvet, let out to graze in pastures of suddenly tall grass.
Its easy to be grateful in June, to watch the [...]
A new productive
Hi. It’s a rainy Friday, and sadly I haven’t posted nearly as much as I’d hoped this week. Excuses: my camera is broken (alas, DH accidentally dropped it) and every available minute at the keyboard was spent finishing a piece I want to send out today. Also: 7 baby New Hampshire red chicks in a [...]
Trying to get focused (and it’s not really working)
It’s been like pulling hens teeth to get words on the page here lately. Life is happening full tilt and I’m all over the map. Things are busting out everywhere: dandelions, rhubarb, fiddleheads, grass. We have allergies, Bean and I. We are a display of loud, honking nose blowing, in the morning
We eat fresh bread [...]