There are times in our lives when it feels as if everything is the color of tea. The familiarity of our lives stained pale. The waters of the flood have retreated but they have left much more than silt and mud in their wake. Our dirt road is patched but still bears the scars of…
Month: July 2023
Summer’s Not Over Yet
When I am looking out the window in early January, and the snowplow has just gone by creating a white wall at the end of our driveway making it impassible without a snowblower and some shoveling, and the only way to get water to livestock is in metal buckets filled in our bathtub, winter wins…
The Art Of Taking and Giving
This morning I pulled a large steel bowl from under the counter and headed down to our “mobile” garden. Living in the woods means that our main vegetable garden is done with sun by mid afternoon. This works for most of our growing but not for tomatoes or basil so we repurposed one of our…