wigglers

I am so happy my hands were shaking when I took these photos, or it was the honey I OD on this morning. Some of you might know that I have been day dreaming about set up my own worm compost for a long time now. I really wanted a nice wooden bin for them [...]

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Hip-Hip-Harold

Harold the hippo was born earlier this Spring but was blind. He was sitting on the sewing table without eyes and I would see him put every thing in his mouth; needles, thread, buttons. It was beginning to become a problem so I preformed a simple surgery and now he can see. He seems very [...]

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Kitsch

The garden is thriving. I think the accordion music helps. A few summer ago we drove by a home on the way to Mt. St. Helen’s that was absolutely crowded with gnomes and related garden kitsch. Lars (lovingly?) predicted that our garden would someday look like that. If you’re reading this Lars, it’s started. [...]

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to many things

A little mushroom growing by the herbs.

I am painfully aware that I like blog about starting more projects than I post about finished. That’s because currently I have an unfinished sweater, sweater vest, two different pairs of mittens and cowl that I am knitting, a small bag that I am crocheting, shelves almost done being [...]

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Homemade cloches

A finished cloche practicing with the parsley. After some more reading I found my nerve and started bothering the neighbors by tapping glass for hours in my attempts to remove the tops. Here is my process…

[left to right, top to bottom] 1. glass jugs clean and shiny 2. Tools: 2 pieces of scrap wood, sand [...]

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