ACK! Our bathroom has been invaded. The creatures look like they have come from the depths of the Sea or from the outskirts of Space.
Last month we attended the Snohomish County Mycological Society’s Fall Show when Dylan’s mother was in town. As always, it had a wide variety of mushrooms, which is one of the benefits of the [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Invasion!
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Synchronicity
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Isn’t it lovely when events seem to connect. Last night after writing the post on the Elk and sharing some of my ideas about meat eating. I randomly opened Full Moon Feast by Jessica Prentice. The chapter I read was about the blood moon and she went on to describe her sentiments about meat eating [...]
The Gift Of Elk
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Show me, oh shaman, the visions you saw
The crown that you carry, the high country law
Your power and majesty, your bugle cry
Be stronger
Be bolder
Be brave and climb high
-Nancy J. Bailey
Things have been a bit weird lately because we’ve been waiting so long to close on the house. My time has been being used in a very [...]
The Hope That Scat Brought
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The bear puts both arms around the tree above her
And draws it down as if it were a lover
And its choke cherries, lips to kiss good-bye,
Then lets it snap back upright in the sky.
-Robert Frost
Late this past August Dylan and I went to visit the land and to gather some apples and Asian pears from [...]
The Beginning
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I’ve begun this blog as a practice, a way to enhance my learning process and share with others the trials, successes and failures of small scale homesteading. We began this journey three years ago with a dream of owning land and connecting with it daily and building our life around our connection to that land. [...]
