Archive for the ‘Hearth & Home’ Category
Keeping Busy
Just a few of the things going on in my life right now:
Working on the 2011 Walking the Hedge calendar and day planner

The Wheel of the Year image for the Northern Hemisphere version
Writing that book I’ll never finish
Getting ready to turn 30 at the end of the month
Hosted the Witch & Stitch Circle at my house

Here's me getting ready (note my feet)
Working on the podcast
Writing the next blog post in the series on feminism and womanhood
Decided it was time to do a little re-vamping and re-dedicating of my Bag of Bones (and stones and sticks and things) I use for divination, also working on writing a blog post about that

Dem bones enjoying a little sunshine
Being a troublesome moderator, over at Bren’s forum
Troubleshooting bugs over at the Hedge
Working in the garden (stay tuned for blog post and pics about that)
Grieving my horse Morgan, who was mauled by a bear (at the family farm) and had to be put down, as well as hoping a beagle named Lacey (also at the family farm) comes home and isn’t lost forever

She was so young and pretty
I hope everything is good in your lives folks!
White Sauce
I write in my recipe book in a very short hand kind of way. One that assumes you already have some skill and would know what I’m talking about. I pity my some-day daughter-in-law trying to decipher it. Something like this white sauce recipe is pretty straight forward, following the recipe for a whole turkey dinner … not so much!
Butter 2 to 4 tbs melt low
Onions etc
Flour (whole wheat) 2 to 5 tbs more for thicker
Stir lots 10 minutes
Milk
Spices and herbs
Pour on something
Serve while still hot
But … But!
In order to have plants in my sunroom I need:
Plants. Plants that will happily grow in my eastern exposure sunroom, don’t require at lot of nit picking and who like loads of sunlight.
But wait! First I need money to buy plants. I could beg for cuttings from friends. Or steal plants from neighbour’s gardens and porches while they sleep! Eh, maybe I can put my pennies together to buy a packet of seeds from the dollar store and rescue a few forlorn plants from the clearance rack.
But first, I have no pots to put them in! Hmmm maybe I can recycle an old teapot and a pair of boots? A coffee tin and yogurt containers? Make folded paper pots out of flyers? Use cardboard boxes lined with shopping bags?
But wait! I have no soil to put in my pots! And no money to buy soil. The dollar store soil is terrible and seems to kill things. Perhaps I could steal soil from construction sites? Pester neighbours with back yards for compost? Put kitchen waste and grass in a box in the sun and make my own?
But wait! I have no shelves to put the pots on! The poor plants (that I don’t have, who have no pots or soil) will have to go on the floor.
But wait! The floor is covered in boxes and bags of stuff I can’t put away because I have no shelves.
Huh
Maybe this year I’ll just draw pictures of plants, print out a few photos of yards and gardens I used to have, and tape them to the windows and walls of my sunroom.
But wait! I have no tape to put the pictures up with.
Maybe I’ll just go for a walk in the woods instead, hug a tree or two and listen to the birds sing.
But wait! I live in the city!
Huh
Well then … never mind.
Bare Feet
It’s easy to get trained
You see
By the horrid Winter freeze
To bundle up
And sneak outside
And hide from the elements
Then one sunny day in March
You wake up and hear the sound of
The garbage truck coming down your lane
And you are late again
You grab the box of recycling and race down the stairs
On to the porch
To the sidewalk
In the nick of time
And smile at the garbage man
As you turn around to head inside
Suddenly you realise
You’re outside in shirt sleeves
And standing on the sidewalk
In bare feet!
Hurrah for Spring!






