She must. Otherwise spring would be more springlike, wouldn’t it? The last two days have been lovely, sunny and warmish, but before that it was cold and rain and more cold and hail. Way more rain than we’re supposed to …
Ladybug had her first birthday on March 31st. I didn’t manage to mark the occasion here because we were back east visiting family sans wireless. The lucky baby had two birthday parties, so she could celebrate with her New Jersey …
Ladybug turned one! (and her mama didn’t blog it) Read more →
Okay, so we had a light frost last night and we could see our breath this morning when I took Thumper to school, but we got some of the spring seeds into the garden this weekend so doesn’t that kind …
From November 1988 to August 2010, I was a vegetarian. From June 1995 to somewhere in 2000—I can’t recall exactly—I was vegan. For two of those vegan years, I also avoided wheat and sugar. Sounds pretty healthy, right? Not so …
The religion of vegetarianism. What happens when you lose your faith? Read more →
This bag, see? What do you think? Momish? I was in Goodwill the other day and I had a store credit to burn, and as I walked through the bag-and-shoes section to get to the bedding section (where one can …
Does this bag make me look like somebody’s mother? Read more →
The baby recently grew into the robot vest I made for Kiddo when he was her age. (FYI: It’s my Blank Canvas Vest pattern, and the robot chart is included.) She couldn’t care less whether there’s a robot on it …
I got all worked up about those cholesterol numbers, then Holly commented on the previous post that she believed breastfeeding elevates cholesterol levels. So I did some googling, and you know what? She’s right. (My readers save the day again. …
First, because it’s dull as dirt to listen to someone else go on about medical stuff and diet etc, here’s a picture of my kid feeding some ducks. (Because what’s more interesting than pictures of someone else’s kid feeding ducks?) …
Still working on the whole balance thing, apparently Read more →
This gardening thing…I can’t say I’ve quite got it all figured out just yet. Check back in about twenty years and I’ll probably have things pretty well worked out by then. See, when I sowed the seeds for the fall …