About Me
If someone asks me how I am, I don’t have to say ‘living the dream’… I can say ‘cultivating the dream.’ It’s about now and the future. Every day I choose: "today, I will savor the now"; or, "today, I will work for tomorrow." This blog is about both of those choices and finding a balance between them. Read More
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Donuts galore!
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Bruno the surprise guest
May 14, 2024
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Blue green sunset
May 2, 2024
J got a lot done in the woodshop this season, and I helped by moving pieces around when one person simply couldn’t (he likes to work with large pieces of wood). We now have several gorgeous, finished worktables and an outdoor workspace/dining area, plus this beautiful cheese platter for sale.
In the gloom and cold, I find myself missing the dirt and the growing things. It took a few tries and a higher-priced starter kit, but I finally figured out how to use microgreens. Microgreens are super beneficial to the immune system, since they provide a lot of micronutrients and antioxidants. One of the ways I’ve been incorporating them into…
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I’m so bad at remembering to use craft supplies I’ve purchased that I had an entire sewing machine for two years before I put it to use. But finally I got so fed up with the over-long curtain being a pain in my butt to move, so I got the sewing machine assembled, cut the curtain to the right height,…
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I didn’t really get into fermenting until the end of 2023, so by the time I was into the idea, a lot of my harvests were already over. There wasn’t too much left to urgently preserve, so I had to pick through the garden to find what was still growing. In the PNW, peak harvesting time for leafy greens and…
This year, I canned and fermented all kinds of things for J and myself, as well as to share with friends and family as gifts for the holidays. One of the things I made was green ketchup, and you may be wondering what that is (and if it has anything to do with green eggs and ham)! Surprisingly, green ketchup…
