Yesterday was a just-about-perfect day: We spent the morning at the Farmer’s Market, catching up with our friends and buying yummy organic food from them We spent the afternoon snowshoeing in the fields behind the house with our dog We spent the evening (and well into the night!) playing cards with our neighbours, the dairy [...]
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Perfect day
Posted in Carter, dear diary on Sunday, January 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Hearthfire
Posted in Carter, green living, homesteading, pagan, wheel of the year on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
This morning we woke to a howling blizzard. I took more satisfaction than usual in the morning ritual of kindling today’s fire from the still-glowing coals of yesterday’s, and watching it catch and then roar. Heating with wood is like baking your own bread. It takes a fair amount of planning, organization, effort, and hard [...]
Photo post: Morning walk
Posted in Carter, Green witch, pagan, wildlife on Wednesday, August 12, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Carter and I go out for a walk every morning around 8am. Sometimes I take one of my field guides, to identify wildflowers or trees. Sometimes I take a bag to gather herbs. Sometimes I take my camera:
Carter vs. Chrysemys picta
Posted in Carter, wildlife on Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
On yesterday’s walk, down by one of the smaller ponds in Mike’s back field, Carter suddenly got very, very interested in something in the grass. I looked, but didn’t see anything at first glance. Carter’s body language made it clear that there was something there – something he wasn’t too sure about. “Probably a big [...]
Chick update
Posted in Carter, chickens, homesteading on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I took these photos on Friday, when the chicks were three weeks old: Since then we’ve had to secure netting across the top of their enclosure to stop them from flying out and getting lost in the garage. It’s still much too cold for them to go outside, though (we had frost last night that [...]
It’s all about the chicks (except the bits about the dog)
Posted in Carter, chickens, dear diary, homesteading on Friday, May 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I suspect there will be many posts in which I rhapsodize about the chickens… Today the chicks are one week old, so I got to switch their bedding from paper towel to wood chips. This is because in their first week they are still learning to recognize food, if they had wood chips for bedding, [...]
Life goes on, an update
Posted in Carter, chickens, dear diary, garden, homesteading, tagged chickens, gardening, strawberries on Thursday, May 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Chickens: The chicks are doing really well. They’re eating and drinking and gaining weight and getting bigger and louder and trying to learn to fly. And they’re still incredibly cute. Yesterday I started them on green food in addition to the chick starter (which contains corn, roasted soybeans, wheat, flax meal and minerals). I carefully [...]
Spring!
Posted in Carter, dear diary, garden, wheel of the year, tagged Chionodoxa luciliae, dog, Glory of the snow on Monday, April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I declare it spring in North Stormont county! Some of the crocuses (that were a lovely housewarming gift and that I planted around the well in the fall) are starting to come up. The tiny delicate pale blue ones are coming up first, which seems appropriate. The pussy willows are out, all soft and fuzzy and [...]
Never a dull moment
Posted in Carter, dear diary on Tuesday, April 7, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Carter managed to break his leg. Again. In the splint. Worse than the first time. We don’t know how or when, just that this morning we saw that he had chewed a hole through his bandage directly over the break, and this was worrying enough that we took him to the vet first thing. So [...]
Poor puppy!
Posted in Carter, dear diary, tagged dog, vet on Friday, March 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Carter broke his leg. We were on a walk in the back field, and he took off after a deer into the woods. I heard him yelping and by the time I caught up with him he was sitting on the path waiting for me, looking very contrite and holding his front left paw up, obviously injured. He [...]
