Prairie Garden

I have finally reached the domain of recipe-tinkering in my Kitchen Skill Set (to slang around some corporate jargon). It feels so good! My...

I have many things to say, but no time to write them up. It has been cold-cold-cold here, and it is so thrilling. The temps hover around zer...

I realized today that my enthusiastic ravings about No Logo the day before yesterday might be overly vague, so I wanted to follow up with s...

Says I, "WICKED." [As in, terrific! Wicked awesome. This woman puts lays out my inklings, theoretical hypotheses and observations...

Diego likes to "tell time" these days. He'll look at the clock and say, "Oh - it's two-sixty-tuba" or "It...

My SIL wondered how I got connected with our local food sources. This is just too good for a comment, so I am posting my answer. Vegetables:...

Who would have thunk it would take me a week to recover from Thanksgiving? Granted, we did have a Holiday Blow-out and celebrated Thanksgiv...

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. ...