I wrote up a little basic instruction for apple tree grafting as shown to me by my friend, Geoff , a stand up guy who braved a near-miss highway accident, cranky kids, and bad weather to teach ...
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Why is it that playdates are rarely as creative and carefree as the one we had last weekend? *This* is what I thought it would be like to have kids and kid friends. We've only reached this lo...
If I were a witch my familiar would be an owl. In my life I've been lucky enough to find three owls (two Barn Owls and one Burrowing Owl) who all needed a little helping hand — the last one w...
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Every kid needs a kid, especially a bottle-fed one in the house. I'm starting to feel like I'm living the movie Babe , except there's a vacant mobile home cropped out of my frame. Add she...
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We were gifted six ewes and seven lambs the day after Christmas. It's a co-parenting sort of thing because our friend's grazing land wasn't exactly coyote-proof. We're working on some serious fe...
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A certain someone turned seven this week. He had a ranch-themed party for eighty! I think over sixty showed up. There were at least twenty five cars -- and some horses, of course. Here he is on...
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MUSHROOM HUNTING Sigh. I don't get enough days out in the woods, but did manage to score all these within a ten minute local jaunt. Today brought us no mushrooms, but we did meet some beekeepe...
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Happy Halloween y'all. My first mohawk (lice-inspired, at age 41 — woot!) reminds me of this funny thing from The Onion. We did his and her mohawks for the grownups. And because the kids go...
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Named before we got her. Found in a desert with a horse. A perfect fit for the ranch.
So in my few minutes online at my mom's house I'm just putting up some pics. Cleaning tack. Tightrope walking after reading Mirette on the High Wire . Learning basic horse care and braid...
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when your drive home passes by huge agribusiness, a power plant, and a junk yard, as well as a marine refuge, a working harbor, and a slough. when your first attempt at ridding the house of f...
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Just busy doing ranch stuff. I have yet to take one photo. Luckily my sister takes some.
My aunt and uncle came to help us move. Along with demolition, engine repair, and stove cleaning, they also got the very important task of stash transfer. Their VW has the very cool Suburu c...
http://www.greenkitchen.com/blog/2009/06/stash-go-go-and-other-things.html
Lifting boxes, raising my spirits by driving through here and listening to this .
We had a little excitement down at the ranch yesterday — a fire, one property away. The California Department of Forestry planes were there within minutes to drop flame retardant. B took ...
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because of the house's 70s Spanish style "architecture," which includes an arched facade that serves no functional purpose that I can determine. I hear it used to sport serious shag carpet and ...
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We interrupt the seemingly endless — and not-so-great-smelling — job of scraping off 30 years of kitchen grease for a sun-kissed, vintage fabric interlude. Take a breath of this: ...
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Maker Faire this weekend.
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and for the ones who don't know Shel Silverstein , yet: God, the interwebs are cool .
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Getting ready for the move.
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Since I can't seem to write a proper post these days I'm just going to put down some random bits. I have been slightly more active over at Twitter if you want to follow me there , too. Everythin...
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Fabric store purchase = $70* Staying up till 2:30 a.m. wrestling with FOE and nylon/spandex fabric = $ At least 30 new gray hairs — perhaps years off my life Fulfilling birthday boy's on...
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This: Plus this: Equals this: An insomnia-induced, Johnny Depp makeover — it's what happens to me after taking late night facebook quizzes. Next time a less smiley pic, per Wax & Wool's su...
I sew in the kitchen. The iron cord really does frequent the butter dish. I hang my works in progress on the curtain rods or tack them to the cupboards. From the counter you can see that we lik...
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Ran across some vellum in the paper stack and loved the results. I couldn't master my camera to capture how much the vellum glows. Regular construction paper, too. Same window, different holi...