Prairie Garden

We ordered our vegetable seeds through Seed Savers Exchange this weekend. Looking through the pictures and imagining the bounty is a mouth-...

Walking Iris aka Apostle Plant aka Neomarica I love having tropical houseplants. They usually bloom when the soul and mind need it most - t...

In a tearful response to an impassioned rebuke from his mother this afternoon, for poking his little brother in the face with a pointy toy, ...

Or present , as it were. After stampeding through my college daybooks , I decided to review my high school journals as well. What an interes...

The sloughing of my uterine wall has recommenced. I could tell that things were changing, but I wasn't exactly sure what was going on un...

I never followed up on the Valentine Spaghetti Meal , our Friends of the Library's first fundraiser. It went well. We had 100 or so peop...

Your Long Journey from Raising Sand with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss has shot up to #3 on my iTunes account after a morning binge on en...

I have been on what we have dubbed an "emotional vacation" for the past two weeks with Squeeze, my main squeeze, my only squeeze,...

Feb 2009

I was gone for a week a-visiting in Minneapolis/St. Paul. It was a lovely trip - we spent a lot of time with family, friends, at beating dow...

We have been flailing in our day-to-day life again. I am getting crankier and less productive by the day. And by productive, I mean as a mot...

It is back to the drawing board for South Dakota. The legislators voted 32-to-33 to not "strike the not" from the Health and Hum...

For those with interest and access, at 2:00 pm CST today, the South Dakota House will vote whether to "strike the not" from the ...

I'm reading two books right now: one that has made me weep and gnash my teeth, and the other, which has made me snicker, guffaw, and fee...

I think opossums are cute -- I like their long hair and pink noses. I like their slender bare fingers, with thumbs on both hands and feet...

I cut my thumb with a knife last night so badly that it took 3-4 hours to stop the bleeding, with my arm in a sling and my thumb pressed aga...

I had some major cabin fever last year - Sandy of LCCK recommended Vitamin D (as did my mother). Because of their advice, I decided to do ...

The legislative season has started in SD again, so much of my computer time is taken up with following and promoting and defending the Home ...