Today we went from Corpus Christi to South Padre Island, TX. We got up early and checked the weather. Cold in Corpus Christi as the cool air headed down from the north and the warmest place we could find was South Padre Island, so down the road, we went. The sky was overcast and there […]
After arriving in Arizona (you can read about that here) the next 2 days were a blur of travelling from El Paso to Corpus Christi, TX. We had spent a very restless night as we listened to all the traffic on Hwy 10 and were glad to get on the road the next morning. Wanting […]
Recently we took another trip down to Arizona and the first day went from Sooke, BC to Casa Grande, AZ. If you want to read about our previous trip you can start here. After 20 days of rain, the weather was heading for a cold snap and was even calling for snow which is unusual […]
On Valentines Day some women get chocolate or flowers but Rob surprised me with a dinner of Dungeness crab. Now… that doesn’t mean we went out for dinner, but he delivered six crabs in the form of “live” in a bucket. Rob is friendly with the people that run the crab catching business in Sooke and […]
As I sat down to write this post I was trying to think of a title and then all of a sudden the words to a song by Joni Mitchell just popped into my head – “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot” from the song “Yellow Taxi“. It started out to be […]
Now I don’t normally do life in the fast lane, but yesterday turned out to be one of those days. There was so much going on that I couldn’t keep track of things. I would start to do one thing and then another popped up that took priority over the previous chore and consequently nothing […]
Throughout our lives, we make millions of choices and decisions, but how many of us actually make a conscious choice for each of those decisions. From the time we are little our lives are dominated by choices. Some sources claim that people make 35,000 decisions a day. So, if we sleep 6 hours a day, that […]
If you’ve never seen fencing hummingbirds you’re missing out! It’s that time of year… at least for the Anna’s hummingbird. Nests and babies have been spotted in previous years in late February. So the other day, I hung out fluff and wool and bits of string for the birds to use in their nests. I’m usually […]
I heard the raven call today and although some say that it sounds hoarse and harsh, to me it is music in the making. He walks beside me and in his glistening coat of black, cocks his head to one side as if he hears what I cannot. To me… Ravens are the messenger A […]
Finally… the Hugelkultur test results! Last year in May we created a new raised garden bed using the hugelkultur method. I called it a modified hugelkultur and you can read about it here. During the summer I compared it to my regular raised garden bed and here are the results. In the hugelkultur bed, I had planted […]
