Prairie Garden

I always used to wonder why 3-4 year olds always seemed to tromp around in rain boots, no matter what the weather. Aren't they for splas...

13 months old 6 teeth 4-6 steps at a time Attempting to walk most places, smiling all the while (with plenty of balance checks, squatting, a...

Look what I ran into today: Yellow Pages Goes Green.org Yessssssssssssss!

I read most of The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships (by Harriet Lerner) a number of m...

I have only enough time to say that the Friends of the Library meeting went very well. We had a smaller turn-out than expected, but those ...

Remember how I said that I was involved in a project to start a Friends of the Library group in our town? Yes, well. Our first meeting is...

Amongst the 900-some photographs taken at my brother and sister-in-law's wedding this past August, one of them sticks in my mind's e...

Here it is: our first egg. Squeeze found it in one of the nesting boxes this morning. Isn't it beautiful? So tiny, but what a thrill ...

Diego has been on a Gingerbread Baby binge again . We read it every day, sometimes several times a day. Interestingly, the more I read it,...

Hide and Seek A.B. Shiffrin When I am alone, and quite alone, I play a game, and it's all my own. I hide myself Behind myself, And th...

Today, while listening to the exact version of this song on iTunes, Diego asked me, "Are you fond of sand dunes, Mama?" to which I...

Because I love lists: The two injured pullets in the hospital-box in our garage died - that means we have one survivor from our dog attack. ...

We had a dog attack on our chickens this week: it broke through our, albeit - rinky-dink, poultry fence and massacred our little flock. Casu...

Eric, you are correct I love this rhyme! We were out of town last weekend for a wedding and this weekend we have company coming [can't w...

Four stiff standers, Four dilly danders, Two lookers - Two crookers - and a wig-wag. What is it?

You little darling! Pumpkin's birth story Now, a birthday surprise for the masses -- Pumpkin is truly one of this boy's middle names...

Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma , wrote an interesting article in New York Times Magazine, as an open letter to the Pr...

Emily - my new SIL just posted pictures of their wedding on her blog. [I can't link directly to the post, so find the 10/18/08 post if...

Inspired by Barbara Kingsolver , I am stocking our root cellar with local produce for the winter. Considering the fact that I actually hav...

I made an amazing Kale-Potato soup this evening, using a recipe from Simply in Season . I am pretty proud of myself. It was a nice change o...