Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fall. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Merry Mabon (preserving log)

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Dressed the altar for Mabon today, a day or two early. I’ll continue to add to it as the season progresses. I bought these Japanese lanterns...

New Buck (Breeding Season)

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We sold Jupiter, our gorgeous Nubian buck, a few months ago. We have used him for three seasons now and it’s time for some new blood.   (se...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

The Rains Are Here (Hallelujah)

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Third straight day of rain, hooray.  The smoke is gone. I don’t think the forest fires are actually put out yet, but it won’t be long. The r...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Monster Squash 2021 (Count on Cucurbits)

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My mother used to say there were only two things for certain in this world - death and taxes. But I know there is another - that every year ...
Thursday, October 7, 2021

Farmer’s Swap Meet (Fall Harvest)

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A neighbor of ours, a friend who started out as one of Homero’s clients, started a farm a few years ago. She raises medicinal plants of all ...
Monday, October 12, 2020

Samhain Season Altar

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I’ve neglected my altar for many moons. Not for any particular reason - life just rushes in and gets in the way. Like everyone else’s, our ...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

It’s Pear Time!

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We had a bit of a windstorm a couple days ago, and as usual, it knocked a bunch of pears off the trees. Went out and collected some today -...
Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Thankful for the Truth (Warning graphic photos)

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I love Thanksgiving, especially in the years, like this one, that I get to host. I enjoy the process of writing a menu, shopping for ingred...
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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Lobsters of the Forest (Mushroom Madness)

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These ugly lumps are actually highly prized lobster mushrooms.  It’s prime time for mushroom hunting in the Pacific Northwest. The rains cam...
Wednesday, October 2, 2019

Last Chance Fuego

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We’ve had a nice long stretch of dry weather - long for post-solstice September in the Pacific Northwest, anyway; about ten dry days in a r...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2019

October Altar (Waste Not)

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An enormous volunteer squash plant grew out of our compost pile this summer. This happens not infrequently, and because squash vines love r...
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Monday, October 29, 2018

Apple-anch, 2018

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It’s apple season again, which means I’m too busy to write about it. These lovely specimens were part of a farm glean courtesy of the Glean...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Preserving Log 9/18

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Arrived home from Oaxaca ten days ago. In that time we had a lot to do to get the kids ready for school- go shopping for supplies and clothe...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Making Up for Lost Time (Mabon Again)

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We arrived home late the night before last. Or perhaps more accurate to say, early yesterday morning. We finally opened the door to our home...
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Monday, October 10, 2016

Fall Fermentation (Wine and Cider)

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Plum wine in the autumn sun  The satisfactions of living off of one's own land are many and varied. It is, for example, delightf...
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Thursday, September 22, 2016

Merry Mabon (Be Prepared)

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Mabon is one of the eight high festivals of the ancient Celtic calendar, and one of my favorites. Here in the Pacific Northwest, the ...
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Friday, November 13, 2015

The Bog of Eternal Stench, The Dog from Hell, and Bad Knees

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Once again it is November, number one on the list of months I wish I could fast-forward through, closely followed by February. Torrential ra...
Friday, October 24, 2014

Mushroom Show

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Last weekend we went to the annual wild mushroom show, hosted by the Northwest Mushroomers Association (click the link  https://www.face...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Weather Weirdness (Charts and Graphs)

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The weather changed about two weeks ago from warm and sunny to warm and wet. Well, of course it has cooled off - enough so that I have brok...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Right On Time (Rain and Decisions)

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Today is the Equinox. As I sit here, writing this, the day is fading. It is almost six o'clock; since school started, I wake up at six o...